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Liquid-metal coolants are one of the most promising solutions for the challenges of advanced high temperature nuclear reactor systems.They optimize heat transfer, neutronics, safety, and compactness of the reactor systems.Molten lead and lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) are the primary coolant candidates due to their unique thermo-mechanical and neutronics properties.However, they are highly corrosive ...

The ability to determine the direction and characteristics of sounds they hear is one many birds and mammals are endowed with. This biological ability evolved over millions of years, and if one can understand the mechanisms, one expects, we can copy and mimic the capability to some extent in practical applications. Audio cues are also essential for situation awareness for soldiers. Ability t ...

Storagenergy Technologies Inc. proposes a novel methodology that allows for the 3D printing of different wholly thermally cured thermosets in a fast and precise fashion mask-image-projection-based -Stereolithography (MIP-SLA) additive manufacturing process. The proposed MIP-SLA based approach has several advantages over other technologies for additive manufacturing of thermoset polymers, including ...

Storagenergy proposes a novel methodology that allows for the 3D printing of different thermally cured thermosets in a fast and precise additive manufacturing process. The proposed approach has several advantages over other technologies for additive manufacturing of thermoset polymers including (1) High feature resolution and structure complexity (2) Fast fabrication speed (3) No post therma ...

International demand for wood has grown steadily in the past few decades due to the growth in the world’s population and is expected to continue to grow rapidly as policies promoting greater use of renewable energy are adopted globally. Providing over 9% of the global primary energy supply, wood energy is as important as other renewable energy sources. Due to wood’s potential for large-scale c ...

70558 The control and dynamic operation of Fuel Cell/Turbine Hybrid power plants will require a synergy of operation between subsystems, increased reliability of operation, and reduction in maintenance and downtime. Futhermore, the control strategy of the power plant will play a significant role in system stability and in ensuring the protection of equipment to promote maximum life. T ...

We are proposing to design and fabricate an advanced monolithic 3D blade trap, which will be much more powerful and more stable than typical blade traps. Our design will incorporate features that will radically improve the trap operational capabilities over today’s standards. The trapping zone will be cut up into spatially distinctive sections, each of which will be optimized for performing a sp ...

The main objective of this program is to design and fabricate an advanced monolithic 3D blade-type ion trap, which should provide capabilities that go significantly beyond the present state-of-the art.  Our design incorporates features that should radically improve trap operational capabilities over today’s standards. The trapping zone will incorporate spatially distinctive sections that are ea ...

The goal of this program is to use Blind Source Separation (BSS) signal processing techniques to create a novel multi-axis controller for prosthetic limbs based on surface EMG electrode array recordings.

Future progress in understanding particle physics will require higher energy collisions, which in turn will require more energy and luminosity. More luminosity means larger apertures and bigger magnets, which in turn will require higher-performance lower-cost superconductors. This project will develop and demonstrate a low cost powder-in-tube (PIT) multifilament Bi2212 process with improved fila ...