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Reimagining a trusted technology (data diodes) into a low-cost plug and play appliance, to provide greater situational awareness and predictive analytics, while safeguarding the infrastructure.That is the Fend mission, and SBIR Phase I helped to demonstrate the need and feasibility for this solution.Solar energy operators need real-time situational awareness and the insight of advanced analytics t ...

For over a century, the structure of the electric utility business has been a supplier driven model with consumers receiving and paying for electricity without any participation in how the electricity is produced, transmitted, or consumed.However, advances in renewable energy technologies (e.g., PV panels), battery storage, smart devices, as well as financing models have given rise to prosumers - ...

Storage of hydrogen is challenging due to high storage pressures and potential for hydrogen embrittlement.Pressure vessels are currently retired from service under conservative guidelines due to the inability to identify damage until damage is imminent.There exists a need for a system that can resolve micrometer-scale features and relate these to the damage state of pressure vessels for accurate l ...

Today’s building energy modeling practice is highly fractured between different simulation engines, Computer Aided Design (CAD) interfaces, and computing resources.While preferences for these fractured components vary between professions and individuals, one principle is unanimously agreed upon: a strong, flexible, and programmable connection between these three categories of software is needed ...

Nuclear fusion has great potential for supplying global energy needs with a clean, abundant energy source. Advanced superconducting magnets will be used to contain the plasma at the center of the reactor. To operate these magnets, new sensors are needed to monitor the superconductors in real-time to detect the signs that the superconductor may quench (lose superconducting properties), so that corr ...

Small business proposals to develop components for energy conversion systems that support supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton power cycle systems were requested by the DOE.Specifically, DOE asked for proposals to develop piping systems that can accommodate the sCO2 at temperatures up to 900°C.Previous work sponsored by the DOE have focused on using high nickel alloy piping systems that ca ...

Parity-violating scattering of helicity-flipping polarized electron beam has developed over the past decades into a key tool to study both the structure of electroweak interaction and the structure of nucleons. It has been used in the success of many nuclear physics programs such as HAPPEX in Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). The helicity-flipping polarized e ...

Our Phase I SBIR results show that BNNT provides viscoelastic vibration damping at 2 K and 4 K. Consequently, BNNT can be utilized to significantly enhance the performance of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) structures used for particle accelerators. SRF structures typically operate close to absolute zero temperature and are sensitive to microphonics that create length oscillations in the acc ...

Past DOE SBIR programs have shown that accident-tolerant cladding like silicon carbide (SiC) fuel rod cladding can be a durable, less reactive alternative for zirconium alloy cladding for light water reactors.The higher temperature performance and increased safety potential of accident tolerant fuel rod cladding during a loss of coolant accident (LOCA) is expected to both improve the sustainabilit ...

Metallic 3D printing of nuclear fuel assembly components has the potential to remove unwanted cost, waste, and time from the fabrication process.In addition to the direct manufacturing benefits, design engineers can create fuel assembly components that increase the performance of nuclear fuel assemblies with features that were not manufacturable a few years ago.Because of the reduced build time, e ...