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Computational Storage platforms are emerging as a disruptive enhancement in the data processing ecosystem as they have the potential to address the critical bottleneck of limited I/O bandwidth and high latency between storage and compute nodes in the system hierarchy. This “late coming” technology to the Exascale program has the potential to enhance DOE and the broader government’s leadershi ...

Spatial and temporal variability of soil carbon stocks and soil environmental drivers that cause the production and flux of nitrous oxide (N2O) across agricultural systems create challenges for cost effective quantification of N2O emissions and soil carbon stock changes at scale. Technological innovations sensor technologies, remote sensing technologies, cost effective metagenomics sequencing and ...

Actionable understanding of subsurface processes is required by multiple small and medium size companies involved in environmental cleanup and subsurface energy production. Having actionable understanding means that stakeholders (1) can assess and evaluate the merits and risks of different operational strategies given certain initial conditions and (2) modify these strategies over time as a functi ...

Economical production methods for metal nuclear fuel are needed to support the development of safe and environmentally friendly nuclear power plants. This SBIR project aims to develop advanced technology for low-cost production of nuclear fuel from uranium alloy.

Reliable, cost-competitive thermal storage is critical to the growth of the concentrated solar power market. The proposed program focuses on a key component which impacts future trough systems, addressing chronic reliability problems, and providing a pathway to higher plant operating temperatures and resulting higher efficiency. Todays solar trough plants use synthetic oil heat transfer fluids whi ...

Statement of the Problem There are presently no UL1741 certified, commercially available inverters or turbine ac-dc converters available for the US distributed wind market. “Distributed Wind” is defined as 10 kW to 1 MW in turbine rated power. Intergrid has been working to solve this problem for small wind turbines up to 25 kW rated power. Also new work under NREL Component Improvement contrac ...

There is no manufacturing solution available today that can achieve quick-turn production of spaceborne printed circuit boards while adhering to the rigidity requirements of industry standards and surviving the rigors of space launch and flight. To fulfill the production needs of the defense and aerospace industries, this program will develop an additive manufacturing process combining the ruggedn ...

Actionable understanding of watershed and ecosystem behavior is required for a wide spectrum of societal and engineering needs by both government entities and commercial entities. These needs include, for example, water resource management, precision agriculture and hydropower. Such actionable understanding requires the ability to numerically model various coupled processes and associated reaction ...

Remediation and long term management of contaminated sites is likely to require hundreds of billions of dollars. Most of the sites which remain in the US inventory of contaminated sites do not have simple solutions, and effective remediation of these sites will require a fundamental, timely and actionable understanding of physical, chemical and biological processes and overall system behavior in c ...

Remediation and long term management of contaminated sites is likely torequire hundreds of billions of dollars. Effective remediation of these sites requires actionable understanding on coupled surface/ subsurface system behavior and water, heat, contaminant and nutrient fluxes at these sites. A similar understanding is needed for water resource management and agriculture. How Problem is Addresse ...