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The Air Force and other government and private entities must safely dispose of Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Waste (AFFF).The waste is problematic due to a high fluorine content.The thermal decomposition of AFFF by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) was accomplished in a continuous flow reactor during Phase I demonstrating >99% AFFF conversion efficiency.Phase II will build on the bench-scale work b ...

Military systems operate in complex, adversarial environments where their initial planned operations are often overcome by events, but soldiers use those systems in creative ways to achieve their mission objectives. For example, complex ground robotic systems that were initially deployed for surveillance and explosive ordinance disposal have instead been used as decoys, ammunition carriers, and ot ...

"The proposed Phase 2 program focuses on the development of Powered Resonance Tube (PRT) actuators for application to Active Flow Control (AFC). For effective control across the full operating envelope of an air vehicle, high bandwidth and authority arerequired. In Phase 1, a new variable-frequency PRT actuator concept was developed and its feasibility was demonstrated. In Phase 2, the new actu ...