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Governments and industry have recently placed significant emphasis on finding affordable renewable fuels to supplement and/or replace fossil fuel use. Biodiesel produced from microalgae has been identified as a highly attractive option for affordable renewable fuel. This project will develop a low cost, high-efficiency algal biomass harvest and dewatering process. In Phase I, a small scale syst ...

Modern synchrotron light sources have come to rely upon superconducting radio frequency (SRF) acceleration to achieve high luminosity. To date, the workhorse in this area has been the SRF system developed by Cornell in the mid-1990¿s for the CESR-B machine. However, as the quest for higher performance continues, this system is being stretched beyond its design limits. Required increases in inp ...

Future third generation light sources, such as the NSLS-II synchrotron light source proposed for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), push the operating current and subsequent beam power to levels beyond the capabilities of single CESR-B/KEKB cavities. The proposed light source requires 500mA and 1000kW of radiated beam power that must be provided through the power couplers/windows. The develop ...

The International Linear Collider (ILC) represents the next great undertaking for the worldwide high energy physics community. In addition to technical challenges posed by the project, the political realities demand a reduction in the cost of the components of this massive facility. The helium vessels that enclose each of the 16,000 superconducting cavities have been identified as a cost driver ...

Advanced high-power solid state switches are desired to improve energy efficiency, increase lifetime, and decrease operating costs of RF accelerators. This project will develop compact, low cost, optically pumped silicon switches that can achieve (1) current risetimes less than 50 ns while operating at up to 10 kA peak current, (2) di/dt > 100 kA/µs, and (3) a capability of blocking >5 kV. The ...

Increasingly, strict environmental regulations, surging energy demand and oil prices, and the proliferation of the internet and electronic devices have given rise to a growing market demand for efficient, clean, and renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy. However, the electricity generated from these renewable sources suffers from the drawback of fluctuation. To solve this probl ...

As the complexity and scale of numerical simulation and experimentation increases, larger teams of researchers and scientists, located at geographically different sites, are required to address the resulting technical challenges. The success of research projects typically requires that such teams, with heterogeneous skills and resources, work together to address the technical challenges. Thus, c ...

Materials Innovation Technologies LLC is developing a method for making polymer matrix composites fiber preforms that has the potential to revolutionize the industry. The Three Dimensional Engineered Preform (3-DEP) process represents the state-of-the art in chopped fiber preform manufacture. 3-DEP produces a homogeneous fiber distribution within parts and consistent part weight and dimensions f ...

In times when critical national infrastructure depends more than ever on digital networks, the prevention of cyber attacks, as opposed to reacting after security has been compromised, becomes a chief concern. Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) systems serve an indispensable role in proactively preserving the integrity of computer networks under cyber attacks. However, two independent trend ...

What has been holding back General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) until now has been programmability. At present, to take advantage of GPGPUs' potential, application developers must hand-optimize their code, which is expensive and difficult. This project will develop an advanced compiler that, when combined with a GPGPU, will enable the code optimization process to be conducted autom ...