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Despite the growth in Simulation tools and methods over the past two decades, the ability to access this technology is still outside the reach of many small and medium sized engineering companies the so called missing middle. The National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS) report that access to these technologies can reduce product design cycles by as much as 66%, with lab testing costs redu ...

The proposed program will develop an innovative Vortex Enhanced Direct Contact Heat Exchanger (VEHX) for geothermal based HVAC applications. This heat exchanger takes full advantage of the geothermal resource, specifically constant temperature ground water of approximately 12

Due to huge levels of computing parallelism and higher performance per watt, comuting accelerators are crucial for increasing HPC efficiency. This is economically significant for small and medium size manufacturing companies (SMMs) and essential for transition to Exascale computing. However, due to high procurement costs, in-house maintenance of an accelerated HPC cluster is prohibitive for many ...

Vehicles typically reject about 70% of the chemical energy contained in their fuel as waste heat through the exhaust. Capturing a portion of this energy and sending it through a bottoming heat engine, which may be solid state or based on a thermodynamic cycle with a working fluid, will allow more of the fuel

This SBIR/STTR project delivers an ultra-low power structural health monitoring (SHM) system that uses autonomous, wirelessly embedded sensors to monitor and assess structural integrity in wind turbine blades. EASE features impedance-based active SHM, which is highly sensitive to damage like cracks, delimitations, mass variations, fastener failures and stiffness changes. Blades are the only wind t ...

Presently land based wind turbine systems are limited to around 3.5MW in output power because of the logistics of transporting and lifting present blades, towers, and generator components. Larger systems are desired because they are expected to reduce the total cost of land based wind energy and reduce current subsidies. Present approaches of wind turbine generators going to direct drive using ra ...

Dielectric Wakefield acceleration is presently being studied intensively as a promising technology for next generation linear colliders. We present here a new experimental device

THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR RESEARCH TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A PROCESS TO RECOVER ALL OF THE METAL AND CHEMICAL VALUESFROM SPENT PETROLEUM HYDROTREATING CATALYST IN SUCH A MANNERAS TO NEARLY ELIMINATE ANY HAZARDOUS WASTE CONSIDERATIONS. THE CRITICAL STEPS IN THE PROCESS ARE (1) ACID LEACH OF THE CATALYST AND (2) SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF COBALT, NICKEL AND OTHER METALS FROM THE RESULTING LEACH S ...

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The TAU Performance System is a powerful and highly versatile profiling and tracing tool ecosystem for performance analysis of parallel programs. Developed over the last 15 years, TAU has evolved with each new generation of HPC systems and scales efficiently to hundreds of thousands of cores on the largest computers in the world. TAUs organic growth has resulted in a loosely coupled potpourri of ...