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RESEARCH ON A NOVEL MEANS OF PROCESSING FROZEN AQUEOUS BASED FOODS AND BEVERAGES, BASED ON ADVANCED ENERGY DYNAMIC'S STATE OF THE ART EXPERIENCE IN DRY ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION, IS PROPOSED TO CONCENTRATE ORANGE JUICE AND A WIDE VARIETY OF OTHER JUICES AND FOODS. THE PROCESS IS BASED ON THE DIFFERENCE IN WORK FUNCTION OF ICE CRYSTALS COMPARED TO GLUCOSE AND OTHER JUICE CONSTITUENTS. IT REPRESENTS ...

DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CALCULATIONS AND THE LACK OF EFFECTIVE STANDARDS, CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND CHEMISTS HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND THEIR MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC COUNTERPARTS IN HAVING THE BENEFITS OF A COMPUTER WORKSTATION ADDRESSED TO THEIR REQUIREMENTS. A NEED EXISTS FOR THE MEANS TO INTEGRATE EXISTING AND NEW APPLICATIONS THROUGH A COMMON DATABASE, TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE USER INTERFACE AND ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes to develop a novel low-voltage periodic poling technique for creating highly efficient quasi-phase matched waveguides in nonlinear optical materials. The key innovation of the proposed technology is the use of co-planar micro-comb electrodes to periodically pole waveguides embedded in a nonlinear optical material such as pot ...

NITROUS OXIDE IS AN IMPORTANT TRACE ATMOSPHERIC SPECIES WHICH PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN THE ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE PROBLEM AS WELL AS THE DESTRUCTION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE. ITS CONCENTRATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS RISING DUE TO ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES RELATED TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND THE BURNING OF COAL AND HEAVY FUEL OIL. THIS PROPOSAL WOULD EVALUATE AND DEVELOP A NEW, RELIABLE, COST EFFECTIVE, RU ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project concerns the development of an optical alloy composition sensor based on laser induced plasma spectroscopy. A key element of the sensor is the use of a microchip laser excitation source. The technology has the capability to detect industrially relevant compositions in steel alloys and possibly aluminum alloys. The Phase I results in ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will develop a new analytical tool for characterizing drug delivery aerosols and powders. This instrument will be based on a previously developed aerosal mass spectrometer that provides real-time size distribution and chemical composition measurements for aerosol particles. During Phase I research, a new inlet for the aerosol mass spectromet ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a compact and autonomous, high precision monitor for the potent greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide. This proposal is submitted under the Geoscience Instrumentation subtopic (subtopic E) of the Electronics topic. The target molecules are currently detected with cw lead salt diode lasers. These lasers require cryog ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the accurate measurement of the composition and microphysics of atmospheric aerosols that have significant implications for global and regulatory environmental issues. This project would replace the quadrupole mass-spectrometer (QMS) with a compact time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS). This would enable the measurement of ...

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A HARDWARE LISP ACCELERATOR IS PROPOSED, FOR SOLVING THE REQUIREMENT TO DO BOTH NUMERIC AND SYMBOLIC PROCESSING IN THE SAME COMPUTER SYSTEM. THE NEED IS PARTICULARLY ACUTE WITH REAL TIME SYSTEMS, SUCH AS EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR PILOT AIDING, WHERE VAST AMOUNTS OF NUMERIC DATA MUST BE PROCESSED, WHILE MULTIPLE EXPERT SYSTEMS OPERATE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN REAL TIME. CONVENTIONAL NUMERIC COMPUTER SYSTEMS INCU ...