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The DOT seeks an integrated unit capable of identifying and tracking individual vehicles with high accuracy using multiple vehicle detection inputs, including video images, radar-based detection, and vehicle-to-everything radio signal inputs (DSRC, cellular-V2X), with a deep learning-based engine to fuse collected data. To address this DOT need, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to contin ...

This proposal consists of an innovative integrated solution for damage diagnosis of bridge structures using a non-contact image-based measurement methodology. High-resolution and regular camera systems will be used to capture the bridge movements and the traffic passing the bridge, respectively. Computer vision techniques will be used to extract the deflection time-histories of the bridge as well ...

The United States has a vast network of pipelines used for fuel transport. This infrastructure, installed in 1950–1970, is one of the largest in the world. Yet poor/missing records of the materials used, combined with the overall age and associated environmental degradation effects, often results in unsafe operation. Current non-destructive inspection techniques are only capable of detecting mat ...

One of the gravest threats the United States and international community face is that terrorists or rogue nations acquire nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.Even worse is that some type of device is detonated.The ability to know if material is enriched or the identification of device debris relies significantly on chemical analysis; what is the elemental and isotopic content of a ...

Chemical composition of feedstock petroleum affects the refining methods to produce fuels and other products.Intermediate and final refinery products as well as petrochemical products must be analyzed to meet regulations, required specifications and to provide certificates.Today petroleum refinery management requires analyzing the collected data hourly as opposite to monthly analysis used in the p ...

This project will complete 6 years of work by Coulometrics to develop a new environmentally friendly and lower cost process to produce high-quality LIB anode material that exhibits: • lower cost; • improved purification through an environmentally friendly process, and; • a high quality and consistent material suitable for demanding EV applications.Virtually all graphite for lithium ion batte ...

The DOE’s mission includes helping maximize the benefit and value of America’s petroleum resources while minimizing potential impacts on the environment and human health.Highway vehicles in the U.S.produce 11.6 billion lbs.of NOx and 400 million lbs.of particulates resulting in 22,000 deaths/year12.Even with the projected growth in electric vehicle purchases, our auto industry expects more tha ...

Current bioconversion technologies for producing fuels and chemicals from biomass suffer from significant carbon losses in the form of carbon dioxide.This is a fundamental property of the chemical states of the inputs and outputs, and it results in low carbon efficiency.If recaptured, this excess carbon could be upgraded into additional fuels and chemicals.Industrial Microbes and Opus 12 have deve ...

Accidentally released lubricant into water bodies from hydropower production turbines and other marine (cruises, ships) applications challenges safe water recycling and management, and has invited a number of lawsuits.According to the Environmental Protection Agency, up to 16 million gallons of lubricants per year ? equating to 1.5 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill ? are washed off into wat ...

Improved battery technology is indispensable in electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-scale storage if the United States is to realize the benefits to national security and reduction of carbonaceous emissions that come of energy independence.The economic opportunity is immense; the market for the current state of the art rechargeable battery, lithium-ion (Li-ion), is already approaching $50 billion per ...