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THE BAYESIAN DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM (BDS) IS PROPOSED AS THE CENTRAL INFERENCE ENGINE OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM (EXPERT SYSTEM) FOR REACTOR PLANT CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE. THE EXPERT SYSTEM, COPILOT, IS ALREADY UNDER DEVELOPMENT AT PLG UNDER LIMITED IN-HOUSE FUNDING. THE EXISTING WORK INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF THE "DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE BASE" OF POWER PLANT SYSTEMS, PROCEDURES, AND ANALYSIS RESULTS ...

The production of industrial chemicals using microbes and renewable bio-based feedstocks is advantageous for many reasons. Yet, when microbes use bio-based feedstocks (sugars, glycerol, or other feedstocks) to make more reduced chemicals, deoxygenation most often occurs via the loss of ~33% of the carbon that is present in the sugar as carbon dioxide (CO2), limiting the maximum achievable theoreti ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses development of a new, disruptive strategy for direct measurement of CO2 in air. The project will focus on development of an amperometric CO2 sensor with advanced electrolytes and novel electrode catalyst materials that will enable for the first time the direct measurement of CO2 in air by inexpensive methods, potentially displacing ...

Density functional theory is used by many researchers funded by the Department of Energy as a method for predicting the behavior of chemicals and materials used in energy applications. However, results of these calculations are often not standardized and, even when they are, expert-level understand of the methods is needed in order to properly perform a simulation. The energy research community a ...

Density functional theory is used by many researchers funded by the Department of Energy as a method for predicting the behavior of chemicals and materials used in energy applications. However, results of these calculations are often not standardized and, even when they are, expert-level understand of the methods is needed in order to properly perform a simulation. The energy research community a ...

High power RF loads are required to dissipate the power from gyrotrons used for heating fusion plasmas. The ITER facility, currently under construction in France, will require twenty four loads in its initial phase with and additional twenty four required for a future upgrade. High power RF loads are also required at other facilities under construction or planned. The current cost is very high due ...

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New methods and technologies are needed to evaluate, improve, and/or optimize the reliability, accuracy, and/or performance of drilling technologies and instrumentation, testing methods and applications, and modeling or analysis of deep borehole systems. These new technologies will address key issues that affect the future of nuclear energy, in particular, resolution of materials disposition assoc ...

Advanced highly efficient and compact, supercritical carbon dioxide power plants are being developed to replace Rankine based steam cycles in industrial and utility applications. They promise to be more efficient and compact, as well as lower in cost than current power systems. Heat exchangers for these plants represent approximately one third of the plant cost. Given the high temperatures of oper ...

DOE is interested in innovative fabrication technologies for cost-effective high-Q, high-field superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities necessary for the economic viability of future accelerators and upgrades. Ultramet continues to develop transformative chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-based fabrication processes to reliably deposit high- quality superconducting thick-film and thin-film niob ...