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AltaRock Energy, Inc will develop a technique using in-situ mineralization to manipulate subsurface permeability in an active injector at NGP Blue Mountain Geothermal Power Plant near Winnemucca, Nevada; specifically, blocking a high-permeability pathway typically known as a “thief interval”, “loss zone”, “short circuit”, or “breakthrough interval” in the industry- The well in ques ...

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) require robust, hermetic seals that can prevent both fuel leakage and direct mixing of fuel and air- The seal materials should be electrical insulators and should be chemically and mechanically stable in high temperature reactive environments (e-g-, moist reducing and/or oxidizing conditions)- The seals should exhibit no deleterious interfacial reactions with other c ...

By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in places with severe water scarcity and two-thirds of the global population will encounter some degree of water stress. If warming continues at the current pace, by 2030 half of the world’s population will experience severe water stress (Runte 2016). The demands are strong; the restraints, on the other hand, come from (1) high capital investment for eq ...

A primary goal of the Department of Energy (DOE) Isotope Program is to support research and development of methods and technologies that assure availability of critical radioisotopes. High-purity isotope products are essential for high-yield protein radiolabeling for radiopharmaceutical use. This project will develop a system to automate the production of alpha-emitting therapeutic radionuclides s ...

Systima Technologies, Inc. in collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne is proposing to develop and demonstrate a dual mode energetic system design that incorporates an advanced energetic formulation, technology for burn-rate control, and features for IM compliance and system performance enhancement (lethality).The Phase I program includes development and refinement of the system design concepts, comp ...

Develop frequency-equalized Electro-Optic lithium niobate phase modulators with flat frequency response, low switching voltage-length product, and multi-decade environmental lifetime for use in strategic-grade high-precision inertial sensors.     New innovative approaches to improve phase modulator performance will be investigated and test structures fabricated to verify the new device concep ...

Systima is proposing the development of an integrated modular flare dispenser system capable of delivering multiple discrete busts of pyrophoric flare material through the dispense of a single unit from an AN/ALE-47 dispenser. The Phase I program will conduct significant static ground testing to enable a higher TRL level at the start of the Phase II program. This approach will retire risk early an ...

Waterjets are widely used to cut and trim composites and techniques have been developed to trepan and pierce materials without causing delamination or fiber break-out on the exit side. However, using waterjets to mill countersunk holes has not been demonstrated before. This project will use a patented waterjet milling process to show that waterjets can successfully mill countersunk holes in compos ...

Launching radio frequency (RF) waves from the high-field side (HFS) of a tokamak has the potential to be an efficient off-axis current drive method while reducing the plasma-material interaction issues of the antenna. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed to reuse existing equipment at MIT, including CPI klystron ...

The ability to robustly generate increased pulsed power levels at low cost is a challenge for the fusion energy community. Many applications supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fusion Energy Science (FES) program would benefit from a commercially available low-cost, robust, high current/voltage pulsed solid-state power supplies including pulsed magnetics, feedback and control systems f ...