Award Data

Methane is an important global warming gas. Large amounts of methane and other light hydrocarbons are produced as solution gas in the production of oil, and as biogas from landfills and animal feedlots. Some of this gas is emitted directly to the atmosphere, some is flared, and some (from the very largest sources) is used as fuel in specially modified turbines or engines to generate electricity. T ...

Generally, it is accepted that for plastics recycling to be economically viable in the long term, recycled resins must be competitive with virgin resins. To compete with virgin material, new applications must be made available for recycled resins. Such applications will require that the recycled resin be of a high purity level. Thus, many processors are requiring ever-tightening contamination limi ...

Ships generate large volumes of bilge and ballast water which, to meet new environmental regulations, will require treatment prior to overboard discharge. Such wastewaters contain high levels of emulsified and free-phase oil and suspended solids. Treatment by ultrafiltration can produce dischargeable water, but all currently available membranes are finely porous and only moderately hydrophilic. Th ...

PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ESTABLISH THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF A COMBINED COMBUSTION/VITRIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF SPENT ALUMINUM POTLININGS. RE- SEARCH RESULTS WILL BE EVALUATED AGAINST PREDETERMINED CRITERIA TO VERIFY THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF THE PROCESS. SPENT ALUMINUM POTLININGS ARE PRIMARILLY GRAPHITIZED CAR- BON AND REFRACTORY MATERIALS, CONTAINING FLUORIDE, ALUM ...

TURBO ENERGY SYSTEMS AND TIERNEY TURBINES ARE TEAMED TOGETHER TO DEVELOP A NEW GENERATION OF GAS TURBINES. THE INITIAL ENGINE WILL OPERATE WITH LOW NOX AND CO EMISSIONS WHILE BURNING NITROGEN-CONTAINING CALIFORNIA HEAVY CRUDE OILIN COGENERATION APPLICATIONS. THE TURBINE'S DESIGN IS A RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM CONVENTIONAL GAS TURBINE CONCEPTS IN THAT THE TURBINE INCORPORATES LARGE EXTERNAL COMBUSTORS ...

N/A

Sandhill Industries, a woman-owned small business and manufacturer of glass wall and floor tile, has developed a process for manufacturing paving products made from 99 percent recycled soda-lime plate or container glass. The glass pavers are thinner, lighter, denser, stronger, and perform better in paving applications than brick or concrete. Furthermore, the manufacture of the glass pavers generat ...

COAL TAR IS A BY-PRODUCT OF THE COAL GASIFICATION PROCESS USED WIDELY BETWEEN 1820 AND 1950 TO PRODUCE A NATURAL GAS SUBSTITUTE. DURING THAT TIME, BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF TAR WERE PRODUCED AT MORE THAN 1500 GAS MANUFACTURING FACILITIESLOCATED THROUGHOUT THE U.S. A LARGE PORTION OF THIS WASTE TAR REMAINS IN STORAGE OR WAS DISPOSED OF BY INJECTION INTO SUBSURFACE SITES. COAL TAR IS A MIXTURE OF HYDRO ...

OPTRA, Inc., is proposing a low-resolution ( 15 nm) Fresnel sapphire split-prism spectrometer specifically tailored to the identification of molecular species present in the emissions from an engine source. The proposed approach will examine the 3-5.5 ¿m spectral region, allowing for the extraction of concentration information of CO2, CO, NO, HCs, and particulate matter. Sapphire was chosen bec ...

Mide Technology Corporation proposes to develop a fuel injection system for automotive combustion control. The design is composed of a fast-acting piezoelectric actuator to operate a fuel injection valve and emission sensors located in the exhaust, both used in concert with a rapid-learning control algorithm to reduce engine NOx, hydrocarbon (HC), and particulate emissions without sacrificing fuel ...