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Annular extruded plastics are in everything from fuel lines, hoses, pipes, and wires to catheters, medical tubing, and stents and makes up about ? of the $200B extruded plastics market. Extrusion manufacturing is a major processor of the $600B raw plastics industry, which produces 380 million metric tons of material each year. The production of these materials accounts for 4% of oil consumption an ...

Nitric acid (HNO3) is used to produce fertilizers, explosives, nylons, polyurethanes, and a variety of other industrial chemicals. The state-of-the-art manufacturing method uses methane (CH4) as a feedstock for hydrogen and an energy intensive thermal process that emits a large amount of carbon dioxide. A new low-temperature plasma system, which can be driven electrically by a renewable or nuclear ...

Project Description: In the United States, the nuclear reactor contributes 18.7 percent of the nation’s total electricity generation and produces a significant amount of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste. Because SNF is being stored for longer periods than initially envisioned, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technolo ...

Cook Inlet is a significant untapped renewable energy resource. With a global transition towards fostering green fuel production to create a carbon-negative future, ORPC has coupled with the existing facility at Port MacKenzie that is exploring economic development opportunities to investigate the ability to produce electrofuels at the underutilized dock. This presents a unique and compelling case ...

The Department of Energy requires research to advance fundamental accelerator technology and its applications to nuclear-physics scientific research. Innovations are sought that will improve Nuclear-Physics Scientific User Facilities and the wider community’s experimental programs. Passivation techniques or other surface treatments to Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance components are of interest to re ...

The Department of Energy requires the development and demonstration of bimetallic or corrosion- resistant surfaces for structural and cooling components in contact with liquid-salt coolants used in nuclear-reactor systems. Proposed coating materials must survive thermo-mechanical loading (e.g., no flaking or spalling) during exposure to the high-temperature conditions encountered during reactor op ...

Highly compressible multiphase and reactive flows are important, and manifest across a myriad of practical applications, including: novel energy production and propulsion methods (e.g. RDEs, rockets, nuclear, hydrogen safety), building design, safety and energy efficiency (e.g. blast load requirements, insurance and reinsurance, building material selection), material discovery (e.g. novel energeti ...

Ocean Renewable Power Company, Inc. (ORPC) is a global leader in marine renewable energy technology and a developer of eco-conscious projects that harness the power of oceans and rivers to create clean, predictable renewable energy. Since 2004, ORPC has made significant progress towards implementing high reliability systems that demonstrate innovative high reliability systems. To achieve the low c ...

The US roadmap for marine energy estimates installed capacity of 15 GW of wave and tidal power systems by 2030. Ocean Renewable Power Company, Inc. has successfully deployed and operated multiple marine energy units in Maine and Alaska and is now engaged in developing technologies appropriate for use at a smaller scale for powering of subsea sensor networks and other systems deployed in ocean envi ...

High power RF vacuum windows used in typical accelerating cavities have historically been difficult to manufacture to meet the demanding electrical and mechanical requirements. In many instances, these items are what limits the power handling of an accelerator. The high electrical fields on the vacuum side of these windows is prone to multipaction breakdown as well as being subjected to high mecha ...