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THE NEED FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION TO REDUCE US DEPENDENCE ON POTENTIALLY UNSTABLE FOREIGN ENERGY SUPPLIES IS WELL DOCUMENTED. ONE MAJOR POTENTIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURE IS COMBUSTION WITH OXYGEN ENRICHED AIR. CONVENTIONAL METHODS FOR PRODUCING OXYGEN ENRICHED AIR ARE UNECONOMICAL AND HENCE ARE NOT PRACTICED. MEMBRANE PROCESSES, ESPECIALLY THOSE BASED ON IMMOBILIZED LIQUID MEMBRANES ARE CHARATE ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will create a software-based, real-time, single camera, direct-to-computer, two-dimensional motion analysis system for education using image-processing technology. Image processing has not previously been used in educational motion detection. Compared to the commonly used methods--real-time one-dimensional graphing and frame-by-frame ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED. THE APPROACH WILL BE TO VIEW THE TEST PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AS CONSISTING OF EQUIPMENT MODELING, FUNCTIONAL TEST SEQUENCING, TEST PATTERN GENERATION AND SEQUENCING, TEST VERIFICATION, AND AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATION. OF THESE, TEST SEQUENCING AND TEST GENERATION CONSTITUTE THE TWO MOST TIME- ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project is aimed at developing MEMS-based miniaturized fluid viscosity and density sensors that can operate within small confines provide electronic readout, and that are capable of surviving harsh environments (high temperature, high pressure, corrosive, abrasive) typical of many fluid sensor applications. The Harsh Environment Fluid Viscosity-Dens ...

HARNESSING SOLAR ENERGY AS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE AND INEXPENSIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY HAS BEEN A GOAL OF MANKIND FOR CENTURIES. ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING SCHEMES NOW DEVISED TO HARNESS SOLAR ENERGY IS THE PHOTOELECTROLYTIC DECOMPOSITION OF WATERUSING SEMICONDUCTING ELECTRODES. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS LIMITING INITIATION OF PRACTICAL PHOTOELECTROLYSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FACT THAT ONLY SEMICONDUCTING E ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a ceramic hydrogen fuel appliance (CHFA) using ceramic microreactor modules (CMMs) using a low-cost, net-shape manufacturing process, and a new material, that was developed in the Phase I project. The new material developed was demonstrated to have excellent capability for cost-effective microfabri ...

THIS MACHINE ACCOMPLISHES ENERGY CONVERSION THROUGH THE ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING IMPLICIT WHEN A ROTOR-STATOR CAPACITANCE VARIES PERIODICALLY AS THE SHAFT TURNS. IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR LOW COST OF MANUFACTURE AND HIGH EFFICIENCY. ALTHOUGH THE PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR A CENTURY, AND VARIOUS MODELS HAVE BEEN BUILT, A PRACTICAL MACHINE, COMPETITIVE WITH THE CONVENTIONAL MAGNETIC ...

A SPECIFIC ETHER IS PROPOSED TO BE USED WITH LIASF(6) TO GIVE AN ELECTROLYTE FOR USE IN RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERIES. THIS ELECTROLYTE IS EXPECTED TO ALLOW THE CYCLING OF LI IN HIGH EFFICIENCY. THE ETHER IS NOT AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY AND APPEARS NOT TO HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR THIS USE PREVIOUSLY. AN ARGUMENT IS PRESENTED WHY THIS PARTICULAR ETHER IS WORTHY OF EVALUATION.SYNTHETIC APPROACHES A ...

REFRACTORY METALS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHROMIUM, CANNOT BE PLATED FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS IN COHERENT FORM. ELECTROPLATING CAN BE ACHIEVED FROM MOLTEN ELECTROLYTES OPERATING AT THE TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM 500-1000 DEGREES C. BECAUSE OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURES AND ASSOCIATED MATERIALS PROBLEMS, THESE SYSTEMS HAVE REACHED A COMMERCIAL STAGE ONLYIN THE CASE OF TANTALUM. THE IMPETUS TO DEVELOP ELECTROLY ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will produce a unique computational tool for heat transport prediction in industrial devices by hybridizing our Digital Physics technology based on Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) for hydrodynamics with efficient partial differential equation (PDE) solution for heat transfer. The project will start with the development and implementat ...