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Development of a Near-Infrared passive scanner using sunlight to detect and measure methane emissions at an oil or gas production wellpad. The proposed system will provide continuous daily measurements for less than the annualized cost of currently mandated biannual surveys. This fixed-position sensor system will provide operators the ability to continuously monitor their operations for fugitive e ...

This project integrates a collection of advanced surface chemistry, colloidal engineering and high-throughput characterization followed by standard testing and pilot demonstration to manufacture insulating nanofluids (NF) for large power transformer (LPT) oil, with a projected lifetime of >80 years. The key cause of transformer failure is overheating, which becomes more likely over time due to bre ...

Electrified Thermal Solutions is developing Firebrick Resistance-heated Energy Storage (FIRES): a new energy storage technology that turns surplus renewable energy into heat. Once stored, you can use the renewable heat to (1) replace fossil fuels in an industrial process such as steel and cement production, or (2) run a turbine to reproduce the renewable electricity, carbon-free and on-demand, at ...

To advance in-current marine and riverine hydrokinetic energy conversion through a step change in levelized cost of energy (LCOE), Littoral Power Systems, Inc. and its team members GE Global Research, European Marine Energy Centre Ltd., National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Eclipse Group, Inc. propose to design, fabricate and test a novel hydrokinetic energy turbine that reduces LCOE by as much ...

The ability to share network data without privacy concerns is a critical need in the fields of network performance and security research. Network researchers need an effective solution to anonymize packet trace data to enable data sharing and collaborative analysis of network performance. The proposed solution will perform anonymization and sanitization of collected packet traces to protect agains ...

The impacts of aerosol on cloud properties remains a major obstacle to better understanding of Earth’s changing energy budget. Quantifying their impacts is a DOE objective and of broader benefit to the public. Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nucleating particles (INP) have a potentially major impact on cloud droplet number and size, and thereby affect cloud radiative properties, cloud li ...

Plant lignocellulosic biomass is rich in complex molecules and is a renewable resource. This makes it an attractive potential source of fuels, chemicals, and products that can supplant the planet’s reliance of fossil fuels. Catalysis of plant biomass into component molecules is both energy intensive, and is currently incompletely accomplished due to the molecular complexities of biomass. Enzymat ...

Accurate measurements of cloud microphysical properties are critical for improving numerical weather and Earth system models. Airborne measurements of properties critically important to improving model accuracy, such as drop size distributions and liquid water content, have historically suffered from significant uncertainties and large discrepancies between instruments. To address these weaknesses ...

Power cycles based on a supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) working fluid have the potential for higher thermal efficiencies and a lower capital cost when compared to state- of-the-art, steam-based power cycles. Direct-fired, sCO2-based power cycles/systems will require fine- tuned control of the combustion process. Upsets to the operating point, which may be caused by fluctuations in the fuel com ...

X-ray light sources enable commercial research and development and scientific discovery in many disciplines, from medicine to engineering to historical preservation – producing thousands of publishable discoveries every year. As a result of their success, facilities serve an increasingly diverse user community, often providing concurrent beam time and user support to dozens of domain scientists ...