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The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells membrane electrode assemblies market was valued at $460 million in 2014, with expected growth of approximately 29.4% until 2020. However, using established manufacturing methods, the scaled commercial cost of bipolar plate in automotive polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells is over two times higher than the US DoE 2020 target. A new cost-focused approa ...

Second-generation high temperature superconductors (2G-HTS) enable ultra-high field magnets for research and industrial applications. However, 2G-HTS wires are currently manufactured as ~ 10 mm wide tapes. Such wide tape is mechanically difficult to wind and because of its width, the tape incurs high hysteresis losses and suffers poor quench stability. Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc. (BTG) propo ...

In 2015, the US electricity generation was about 4 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) gross with 797.2 billion kWh (19.5%) generated from nuclear power reactors. The US currently has 99 nuclear power reactors, 65 pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and 34 boiling water reactors (BWRs), operated by 29 different power companies. Almost all the US nuclear generating capacity comes from reactors built betwee ...

The mission of the US Department of Energy‘s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) Program is to apply, deploy, and support state-of-the-art predictive modeling and simulation tools for the design and analysis of current and future nuclear energy systems using computing architectures ranging from laptops to high performance computational facilities. The availability of the NEAM ...

The promise of fusion energy is enormous—an energy system whose fuel is obtained from simple ingredients such as seawater and lithium, and which yields zero carbon emissions to the atmosphere. However, realizing this vision requires undertaking one of the most challenging programs of scientific research and development that has ever been undertaken. Predictive simulation plays a crucial role in ...

Supercritical CO2 power cycles offer the promise of high efficiency in a compact footprint with a potential to offer disruptive changes to the US energy infrastructure. Applications include bottom cycles for electric co-generation power plants, nuclear power production, concentrated solar and other renewables as well as propulsion engines for space propulsion. Aerodynamic design theory dictates th ...

The OLED lighting market requires significant acceleration to realize its promise of expanding SSL adoption, saving energy and creating US manufacturing jobs. Today it is difficult to find affordable OLED luminaires that show off the unique advantages of OLED lighting – thin, curved, high efficacy, high-quality light. This proposal addresses the scarcity of commercially available OLED luminaires ...

Water and energy are critically-linked resources. Shortages of water or energy can result in severe and rapid distress to communities, which is an increasingly common occurrence in certain locals. Technologies that can harvest energy and water using locally available resources without damaging the environment are sought to increase sustainability at the energy-water nexus. Aquaneers is pioneering ...

Phase I of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project was conducted under Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy (NE) topic 19(b), entitled “Advanced Technologies for the Fabrication, Characterization of Nuclear Reactor Fuel”. Phase II and IIA preserve the two-pronged vision and goals outlined in Phase I. First, this project seeks to provide a technol ...

Development of a low-cost marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) measurement system which could serve as a core element of a buoy-based data collection network for the offshore renewable energy industry is needed. A commercially viable, buoy-based remote sensing technology for MABL characterization for offshore wind applications is needed. Key requirements are that measurements must support prof ...