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Biomass drying is a core unit operation at most biomass suppliers, aggregator depots, pellet mills, biorefineries, and bioproducts firms. The need to reduce energy consumption, minimize capital, and improve feedstock quality is driving a change in how biomass is milled and dried. A shift from energy-intensive hammermills and grinders to lower energy knife and rotary shear mills is reorganizing the ...

As a result of changes in regulations and permitting, the use of water for cooling in nuclear and other utility power plants is being constrained. Dry Coolers have larger footprints and costs, which burdens ratepayers, but achieves the objective of little to no water use. Due to of steam characteristics, Rankine steam cycle power plants have significant cost challenges, when converting to dry cool ...

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THE ADVANCED DRIVERS STATION PROJECT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL CAPABILITY TO THE VETRONICS CREW DISPLAY DEMONSTRATOR (VCDD). THE VCDD IS THE FIRST OF SEVERAL DEMONSTRATORS THAT WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE VETRONICS LABORATORY. THE VCDD CURRENTLY HAS TWO STATIONS REPRESENTING A COMMANDER AND GUNNER STATION. PHASE I OF PROJECT WILL PROVIDE THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE NECESSARY TO ADD AN ADVANCED DRIVERS STATIO ...

Bovine tuberculosis (TB), a zoonotic disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis, continues to plague the cattle industry in the United States (US) and worldwide. Current diagnostic methods are inadequate; therefore, improved tests are urgently needed for disease control/eradication. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a simple, rapid, accurate, and cost-effective blood test for bovine TB in ...

Bovine tuberculosis (TB), a zoonotic disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis, continues to plague the cattle industry in the United States (US) and worldwide. Current diagnostic methods are inadequate; therefore, improved tests are urgently needed for disease control/eradication. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a simple, rapid, accurate, animal-side and cost-effective blood test for ...

76058-High brightness electron beams required by the proposed Next Linear Collider demand strong advances in photocathode electron gun performance. However, significant improvement in the production of such beams with radio frequency (rf) photocathode electron guns is hampered by the lack of high-fidelity simulations. The critical missing piece in existing gun codes is a detailed treatment of th ...

"An integrated probabilistic data association (IPDA) tracker will be exploited in a towed array sonar context to provide detection capability in the near zero Doppler region where heavy clutter/reverberation predominates. Detection will occur as a result ofthe tracker's ability to effectively measure the consistency of kinematics of a moving object with large inertia. This capability will be enha ...

Optra will build an Advanced 3D Object Identification System utilizing three or more high resolution imagers spaced around a launch platform. Data from each imager will be analyzed in real time using a complex morphological image processing scheme to extract up to 100 objects of interest. These objects will then be individually tracked in the field-of-view of each imager then correlated between ...

During the Phase I effort, OPTRA developed object detection, tracking, and identification algorithms and successfully tested these algorithms on computer-generated objects of various shapes and sizes and on sample real-world image sequences of a DeltaII booster separation. The algorithms currently identify six basic shapes (sphere, disk, cone, thin rectangle, tube, and cube) with better than 90% ...