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Replacement of petroleum based vehicles with fuel cell electric vehicles operating on hydrogen produced from domestically available resources would dramatically decrease emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants as well as reduce dependence on oil from politically volatile regions of the world. One major inhibitor to a hydrogen society is the lack of infrastructure, which requires hydroge ...

The life expectancy of offshore wind turbines is at least 20 years, during which they must operate optimally with respect to power production, minimization of mechanical stresses, plant wake distribution, and more, in a range of atmospheric conditions.These conditions are currently observed using meteorological masts, which provide inadequate observations, thus resulting in suboptimal turbine desi ...

The feasibility of fusion as a practical energy source needs to be improved significantly by removing some of the restrictions that low-temperature superconductors put on the fusion magnet systems.One method to simplify the magnet system is by using high-temperature superconductors (HTS) that allow for a higher magnet performance and much larger temperature margins.Successful application of HTS in ...

One of the gravest threats the United States and international community face is that terrorists or rogue nations acquire nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.Even worse is that some type of device is detonated.The ability to know if material is enriched or the identification of device debris relies significantly on chemical analysis; what is the elemental and isotopic content of a ...

Chemical composition of feedstock petroleum affects the refining methods to produce fuels and other products.Intermediate and final refinery products as well as petrochemical products must be analyzed to meet regulations, required specifications and to provide certificates.Today petroleum refinery management requires analyzing the collected data hourly as opposite to monthly analysis used in the p ...

A commonly noted sensor need for nuclear power systems is flow sensing in the various heat transfer mediums and to monitor medium velocities and characterize mixing and/or cooling.This is particularly needed for small modular reactors (SMR) and molten salt reactors (MSR).Such sensors must be able to tolerate high temperatures, high pressures, highly corrosive liquids, and radiation (neutron and ga ...

Aqwest LLC proposes to further develop a "Front End" laser for an advanced inertial fusion energy (IFE) laser driver, integrate it with final amplifier (FA) modules developed by Aqwest for the Department of Energy (DOE), and conduct a parametric test evaluation.The development and commercialization of IFE is impeded by the lack of efficient and economical laser driver.IFE offers to tap almost unli ...

The DOE’s mission includes helping maximize the benefit and value of America’s petroleum resources while minimizing potential impacts on the environment and human health.Highway vehicles in the U.S.produce 11.6 billion lbs.of NOx and 400 million lbs.of particulates resulting in 22,000 deaths/year12.Even with the projected growth in electric vehicle purchases, our auto industry expects more tha ...

Current bioconversion technologies for producing fuels and chemicals from biomass suffer from significant carbon losses in the form of carbon dioxide.This is a fundamental property of the chemical states of the inputs and outputs, and it results in low carbon efficiency.If recaptured, this excess carbon could be upgraded into additional fuels and chemicals.Industrial Microbes and Opus 12 have deve ...

Improved battery technology is indispensable in electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-scale storage if the United States is to realize the benefits to national security and reduction of carbonaceous emissions that come of energy independence.The economic opportunity is immense; the market for the current state of the art rechargeable battery, lithium-ion (Li-ion), is already approaching $50 billion per ...