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Color consistency of metal halide lamps must be improved in order to have this high efficiency technology maintain market share in the big-box retail / industrial market and to gain market share in the accent / commercial spot lighting market. Big-box retail stores and industrial space use high wattage metal halide lights today, but the lack of color consistency has been leveraged by Light Emitti ...

This proposal is in answer to Topic 36, High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders, subtopic (a) High-Field Superconductor Technology. High Energy Physics, magnet builders desire to push up into the 15-18T range. Present High Energy Physics Nb3Sn superconducting strands with distributed barriers need to have smaller deff to be stable at lo ...

The DOE Office of High Energy Physics (HEP) seeks superconductor development technologies in support of magnets for use in accelerators, storage rings and charged particle beam transport systems. HEP is interested in improved current lead and current distribution systems based on high-temperature superconductors, such as magnesium diboride (MgB2), for application to superconducting accelerator ma ...

This proposal is in answer to Topic 55, Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems, subtopic (c) Superconducting Magnets and Materials. Work has started worldwide for the design of an advanced fusion project beyond the present funded ITER demonstration. The future fusion reactor design will require lower cost, much higher performing superconductor wires in the 14-20 T range. F ...

The accelerating structures in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ring are normal

The current practice in the continuous casters, the primary steel making process in the US, has room to improve for better efficiency and energy savings. Each year, millions of tons of metal are scrapped and energy in multiple trillion BTUs is wasted, due to process limits. New sensors and advanced process control are identified needs by the steel industry to further promote process and energy eff ...

Many scientists rely on transport protocols such as GridFTP to transfer very large

Due to the threat of global warming, and the economic need for energy independence, the United States Department of Energy is developing alternative means of energy production. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells offer a route for more efficient use of fossil fuels, bio-fuels, and biomass, with less pollution compared to combustion approaches. However, widespread use of SOFCs is currently limited, partially by ...

Next generation heat exchangers will operate at higher pressures and temperatures than current models in order to increase cycle efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Ultra-supercritical coal-fired boilers can generate electric power with low emissions while burning high-sulfur coal and can increase efficiency from ~28% to >46%. The problem lies in the materials that are currently use ...

This proposal directly addresses the significant problem of wear and corrosion resistant materials in natural gas and oil well drilling, pipelines, slurry pipe, drilling heads, and mining and has applications in automotive and aerospace applications. Current oil wells are being drilled deeper, with longer drill trails than ever before. This imparts conditions of pressure and temperature that can