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Rural areas in the United States have under-developed solar power capabilities relative to urban areas due to challenges matching energy demand centers with underutilized land and the consequent cost challenges related to smaller installations that lack economies of scale. This project addresses these problems by proposing solar installations that operate synergistically with livestock production ...

The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is changing the earths climate. Climate change will cause periods of extremely high daily temperatures, increase the frequency of heavy rainfall, intensify droughts, increase the maximum wind speed of cyclones, and cause sea levels to rise. The unavailability of low-cost, high-performance atmospheric carbon dioxide analyzers constrai ...

A closed-path methane and water vapor gas analyzer ¿ which is robust, portable, has low power consumption consistent with solar powered applications, uses room-temperature lasers, and is suitable for long-term and remote field measurements ¿ is not commercially available. Yet, such an analyzer is required to support the widespread deployment needed to achieve a better understanding of the globa ...

Robust and reliable trace-gas analyzers (e.g., for isotopic carbon, methane, nitroxide, ammonia, etc.), suitable for long-term measurements, are not commercially available. Such analyzers are needed to achieve a better understanding of the global budget of these trace gases and to quantify their exchanges between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere. This project will develop a tunable d ...

The commercial opportunities for products based on delicate biomolecules, such as enzymes and therapeutic proteins, are growing at a strong pace. However, many proteins of great commercial value, including enzymes, undergo loss of function on encapsulation, when approaches based on high-shear liquid-phase processes, or on immobilization inside a porous matrix, are used. This project will develop ...

A MODIFIED FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETER FOR ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX FUEL MIXTURES IS PROPOSED. THE INSTRUMENT WOULD BE CAPABLE OF RESOLVING 3,000 MIXTURE COMPONENTS OVER THE MASS RANGE M/E 100 TO M/E 600 IN A SCAN TIME OF 2.1 MINUTES,WITH A RESOLVING POWER OF 268,000 (FWHH CRITERION) AT M/E 300. EXACT MASS MEASUREMENT AND DETERMINATION OF ATOMIC COMPOSITIONS FOR EACH RESOLVED SPECIES WOULD BE C ...