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As sustainability becomes a priority, the tire industry requires a tire that is both sustainable and high performing. Molecular Rebar Design can develop a longer-lasting, more fuel-efficient, and better-quality tire. Recently, large tire manufacturing corporations, such as Bridgestone and Michelin, have publicly announced their ambitions to be completely sustainable. With this transition to sustai ...

The Light Water Reactor Sustainability program developed a new method to modernize how access delay timelines are computed. This approach utilizes Bayesian methods to combine subject matter expert judgement and small performance test datasets in a consistent and defensible way. It also allows a more holistic view of delay performance that provides distributions of task times and task success proba ...

Renascent Energy Management, LLC; Topic 26b; Dr. Ivan E. Terez; “Enhanced Gas Recovery and Stimulation by Thermal Methods in Depleted Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells in Shales” Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery in shales is a new concept but it stems from extensive industry Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) experience in R&D and numerous field trials and commercial operations. Non- thermal EOR via huff- ...

DOE desires improvements and advances for the fabrication, characterization, and examination of nuclear reactor fuel. Advanced technologies are desired for Advanced Reactors and fuels for sodium- and lead-cooled fast reactors. Specific technologies that improve the safety, reliability, and performance in normal operation as well as in accident conditions are desired. Metal-cooled fast reactors (MF ...

GHPs (ground heat pumps) have an extensive potential application in the US. Shallow-earth resources exist across all 50 states and can be used for GHPs wherever the ground can be cost-effectively accessed to depths below seasonal temperature variations. Key to reducing geothermal project cost is to minimize well construction cost, including borehole length. Using a thermally conductive grout (ceme ...

Enabled Engineering proposes to fabricate nuclear reactor core components using nano-structured oxide dispersion strengthened steel (ODS) via an innovative solid-state technology. The reactor core components for advanced fission and fusion reactor applications demand enhanced elevated temperature properties and radiation damage tolerance. ODS ferritic alloys are often candidate materials for this ...

40% of solar installers and almost a third of potential solar customers consider poor aesthetics to be a major roadblock on the path to solar adoption, and many do not consider any currently available solar options to be attractive.1 The result is that many customers who want solar due to its environmental, economic, and societal benefits, stop considering it because they think it will harm the vi ...

Superconducting coils built for dipole and quadrupole magnets for particle accelerators operate at currents as high as 10 to 20 kA. Coils operating at such high currents are wound with multi-strand cables of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn wires, each 0.6-1.2 mm in diameter. Such multi-strand cables provide many benefits: substantial flexibility that enables compact coils with small bending radius, twisted geomet ...

The Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office and members of the medium and heavy-duty hydrogen transportation industry have identified a need for high pressure in-line particulate filtration systems. The goal for this program is to demonstrate filters that can remove particulate contaminants from hydrogen fuel dispensed at fast flow rates of 10 kg/min while remaining dur ...

This proposal addresses the need for advancements in solid state detector technologies for use in quantum information science systems. In particular, there is a need for the development of novel photodetector systems that simultaneously exhibit high speed (i.e., frequency bandwidth in excess of 5 GHz) as well as high quantum efficiency (QE in excess of 99%) at or near traditional telecommunication ...