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40063 November 4, 1996 Amparo Corporation First-generation radioactive beam facilities, in use or under construction, cannot completely address many of the scientific opportunities envisioned until an intense production beam is employed. This project addresses a key element in filling this need, the design of high power nuclear targets. The targe ...

40444 November 18, 1996 Southwest Sciences, Inc. Increasing energy consumption and environmental degradation may contribute to deleterious changes in the radiative balance and chemical composition of the atmosphere. The quantitative measurement of water vapor in the troposphere and lower stratosphere is crucial for the study of meteorological and climati ...

41242 TPL, Inc. A number of industrial processes generate wastewater with heavy metal contamination. Existing cleanup processes have difficulties in achieving low metal contamination levels, especially in the presence of competing nontoxic ions, high ionic strengths, and particulate matter; costs of cleanup can be prohibitively high. An effective and economical process to remove heavy metal ions ...

40640 November 12, 1996 Adherent Technologies, Inc. Scintillators have been used for over 90 years to detect ionizing radiation, but solid organic scintillator, commonly used in physics experimentation, suffer from errors caused by pulse pileup. To minimize this problem, this project will examine a new class of polymeric materials which also offer the po ...

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PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES (PCSSS) PRESENTLY HAVE THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS FOR HIGH POWER PULSED APPLICATIONS. HOWEVER, SURFACE FLASHOVER SEVERELY LIMITS THE MAXIMUM VOLTAGE THEY CAN STAND OFF IN THE OPEN STATE. APPLICATION OF A PROPRIETARY TECHNIQUE TO PCSS CAN OVERCOME THIS LIMITATION. THE TECHNIQUE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO INCREASE BREAKDOWN LASER TRI ...

METHANE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE CHEMISTRY OF BOTH THETROPOSPHERE AND STRATOSPHERE, AND ITS INCREASING CONCENTRATION MAY HAVE IMPORTANT EFFECTS ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED LOW COST INSTRUMENTATION FOR REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT OF METHANE FLUXES IS CRUCIAL TO CHARACTERIZING THE SOURCES AND SINKS OF THIS IMPORTANT ATMOSPHERIC SPECIES. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP NEW INSTRU ...

THE DIFFICULTY IN PREDICTING STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION RATES FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT COMPONENTS DUE TO CORROSION AND OTHER FACTORS HAS LED TO THE NEED FOR COSTLY, TIME CONSUMING INSPECTIONS AND INCREASED COST FROM INTENTIONALLY OVERDESIGNED COMPONENTS. THE SITUATION INDICATES A SERIOUS, UNMET NEED FOR A SIMPLE BUT ACCURATE SYSTEM FOR REAL- TIME, IN SITU, NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ...

COALESCING THE FRAGMENTED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH EACH EVENT OF A HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTOR AND THEN PROCESSING IT AT THE RATES DEMANDED BY ACCELERATOR SYSTEMS ARE AMONG THE LARGEST CHALLENGES IN THE PHYSICS COMMUNITY. NEW DETECTOR SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEASURED PARAMETERS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASE THE RESOLUTION OF DETECTOR COMPONENTS SO THAT THE VOLUME OF GENRATED ...

86 A Low Cost Acoustic Property Sensor for Measuring Natural Gas Composition in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Powered Vehicles--Commercial Electronics, Inc., 801 North 15th Street, Broken Arrow, OK 74012-2838; (918) 251-0925 Mr. Scott Phillips, Principal Investigator Mr. Michael A. Phillips, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82353 Amount: $75,000 Among the various alternative fuels propos ...