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Phase I analysis results show that in order to potentially meet the round trip and exergetic efficiencies as required by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Office, for thermal energy storage in concentrated solar plants, a composite of porous silicon carbide and molten salt phase change material is needed.For a 100 megawatt (electrical) concentrated solar power plant with 12 hour ...

Thin-ply prepregs offer significant improvements in weight reduction, stiffness and overall mechanical properties over traditional composite laminates. nbsp;Thin plies (lt;0.05 mm/layer) suppress or delay crack initiation in loaded composite structures thereby allowing for manufacturing of lighter, stiffer and more durable composite products. Recent thin-ply prepreg materials, consisting of toughe ...

We are working on a new approach to treating acute arthritis based on a common pathway in the cellular infiltrates that damage bones and jointsInflammatory arthritis disables thousands of people each yearIt occurs in children and adultsafter trauma and infections but most cases are idiopathicMillions of adults live with chronic RAwhich has similar featuresInflammatory arthritis often requires trea ...

Soil moisture is an important parameter for AF weather measurements and forecasting. It impacts Army operations (off-road mobility, land operations) and Intelligence Community’s knowledge (agriculture: social unrest). AF has classified soil moisture measurements and data as a DoD space-based environmental monitoring gap. If unmitigated, the lack of soil moisture data will diminish our asymm ...

NextGen Federal Systems is proposing a system that addresses one of key problems for human-machine teams as they operate under conditions where communications links can be periodically lost or jammed. One of the primary challenges is that flight crews have to quickly assimilate all of the changes and events that have occurred to the unmanned platform during the outage in order to re-establish a sh ...

NextGen Federal Systems has developed innovative, game-changing software which solves the heretofore insurmountable problem of handling the high-dimensionality and complexity of weather data and its impact to military missions. NGF figured out how to apply On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) methods to build a continually accumulating, multi-dimensional, multi-resolution weather-forecast data cub ...

The proposed Soil Moisture Advancements from Research to Transition (SMART) solution will adapt IBM’s Physical Analytics Integrated Repository and Services (PAIRS) Geoscope and the Watson Agriculture Package commercial technologies and use them as the basis for a novel Machine-learning (ML) system. SMART will establish a containerized service to build and deliver machine-learned soil moistu ...

This proposal is aiming to cover the capability gap in the following two main areas. These are (1) the sensitive site exploitation (i.e. screening of biometrics and identity intelligence at the point of capture) and (2) the exploitation of existing traditional and non-traditional sensors, namely using close, i.e. up to 30 feet, long, i.e. 30-1000 feet, and extreme range, i.e. 1000 feet plus, day a ...

Coal is recognized as a primary energy resource used in the production of electricity and heat. Furthermore, coal is a very versatile commodity used in industrial processes such as refining metals and refined into coal tar, phenol, creosote oil, naphthalene and other chemicals. The objective in this research is to develop a silicon carbide foam, produced from domestic coal that has an open pore st ...

The Phase I of the SBIR “Smart Fault Management” project aims to demonstrate how the fault management process can be innovated by exploiting concepts from a combination of well-established and emerging disciplines such as Bayesian Statistics, GPU-accelerated numerical simulations, Data Science, and Machine Learning that are disrupting the current status quo in many scientific and engineering f ...