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The development of high-current, short-duration pulses of electrons has been a challenging problem for many years. High current pulses are widely used in injector systems for electron accelerators, both for industrial linacs as well as high-energy accelerators for linear colliders. Short-duration pulses are also used for microwave generation, in klystrons and related devices, for injectors to perf ...

Aerosol particles have important impacts on visibility, acid deposition, climate, and human health, although large uncertainties remain in quantifying their chemical composition and atmospheric transformations. A large fraction of the anthropogenic aerosol is generated from energy-related activities, and organic compounds are known to constitute a significant fraction of ambient aerosol mass. Rece ...

NOVA Scientific, Inc., teamed with the Electronics Group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, proposes to construct very large area Microchannel Plate neutron detectors. The applications of these much larger format detectors will serve an exceptionally broad range of government agencies from neutron scattering detectors for DOE to nuclear material panel detectors for NNSA, and ultimately to nuclear m ...

50547-98-I Variable Speed Ice Making System for Wind Generated Power--Foster-Miller, Inc., 350 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA 02154-1104; (781) 684-4239 Mr. James Carter, Principal Investigator Mr. Adi R. Guzdar, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82583 Amount: $74,964 Off-grid power systems which utilize wind turbine generators require either some form of energy storage or dump load. Th ...

Current efforts of DOE to create future lightweight systems in order to attain significant energy saving, cost reduction and improved efficiency requires development of advanced nanostructured lightweight composite materials with improved ductility and high tensile strength. Magnesium (Mg) with a density of approximately two-thirds of aluminum is the lightest structural material. Despite this adva ...

PET is a very powerful functional imaging technology and has the capacity to measure the transport and distribution of radionuclides, labeled photoassimilates in plants in 3D. PET Imaging of plants will help scientist to understand how plants respond to environmental stresses, and have many potential applications such as improving agriculture, improving plant performance to clean up environmental ...

50532-98-I Synthesis of Mesoporous Tin Oxide for Chemical Gas Sensors--CeraMem Corporation, 12 Clematis Avenue, Waltham, MA 02154-7011; (781) 899-4495 Dr. Bruce A. Bishop, Principal Investigator Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82549 Amount: $75,000 Chemical gas sensors based on metal oxide semiconductors are used in a wide variety of applications. Devices fab ...

Coal fired power plants are a leading producer of carbon dioxide emissions. To reduce the potential of global warming, carbon dioxide can be captured at the exhaust of coal fired power plants for capture and sequestration. The technology to capture carbon dioxide at the emissions source must be able to be implemented both economically and on a very large scale. Currently, the leading technology t ...

Large-scale wind turbine designs are significantly constrained by transportation limits. As utility scale wind turbines have developed, they have steadily increased in size and have seen a steady decrease in cost of energy. However, further increases in on-shore turbine size beyond 3MW are prohibited by hard limits in the size of components that can be economically transported to the wind farm sit ...

50653-98-I Spectral Sensitization of Nanocrystalline TiO2 by Dye Aggregates--ChemMotif, Inc., 60 Thoreau Street, Suite 211, Concord, MA 01742-2411; (781) 229-8556 Dr. Mark T. Spitler, Principal Investigator Dr. Mark T. Spitler, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82552 Amount: $74,965 Improvements are sought in the efficiency and manufacturability of dye-sensitized solar cells. The dye ...