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With a vast network of over 400 thousand miles of transmission pipeline and over one million miles of aging distribution pipeline in the U.S., it is a huge endeavor to continuously monitor pipeline integrity, detect leaks, and repair leaks.Conventional methods to repair leaks are labor intensive and could take many hours during which there are chances for leak propagation, excessive release of met ...

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 ...

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 ...

Development of a low-cost marine atmospheric boundary layer 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 boundary layer characterization for offshore wind applications is needed.Key requirements are that measurements must support pro ...

Fundamental improvements to the energy, brightness, and stability of lepton beams from next generation plasma-based accelerators are essential to maintain rapid innovation and scientific productivity within the field of advanced accelerators.Meeting these goals requires improvements in the design and control of the plasmas used for injection and acceleration.Laser plasma accelerators benefit from ...

Under the Department of Energy’s SunShot 2030 goals, the SunShot Initiative was launched to lower the cost of residential solar electricity to $0.05 per kilowatt hour and to enable greater distributed energy resource adoption.This has resulted in residential PV solar rapidly growing, leading to a rise in energy prosumers (energy producers and consumers).The rise in distributed energy resources r ...

Pre-combustion CO2 removal is an attractive carbon capture process due to the higher CO2 concentration in the process stream and higher system pressure after the water-gas-shift (WGS) reaction.These characteristics permit CO2 capture in an energy-efficient and costeffective way because the throughput is hundreds of times higher and the equipment footprint much is smaller than that in current post- ...

OLED luminaires have been available commercially for several years, with relatively slow adoption into commercial and consumer lighting fixtures in the US due to higher cost and lower performance than LED luminaires.This project addresses both issues through the commercialization of a cost effective high efficacy bendable OLED lighting panel based on thin glass.The most significant benefit of OLED ...