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Novel electron gun features are required to enhance the peak and/or average beam brightness by reducing the emittances of electron bunches while allowing the guns to operate at a high repetition rate using laser excitation of the photocathode. The generation of surface acoustical waves (SAWs) on piezoelectric substrates is known to produce strong piezoelectric fields that propagate on the surface ...

Wastewater from oil and gas production has high total dissolved solids (TDS) and organics and needs to be treated for safe disposal or reuse. Coal-fired power plant discharges and mining effluents share similar high TDS and organic contents. This project targets the development of an energy efficient, and robust supercritical desalination technology to treat hypersaline solutions, destroying organ ...

The Department of Energy has a mission to ensure America's prosperity and security by addressing energy and environmental challenges. Radioactive isotopes are used in nuclear medicine, energy and environmental sciences and for national security. This Phase I project aims to produce domestic, economic and environmentally responsible separation process for radioactive isotopes from lanthanides - rar ...

One of the high priority areas of nuclear physics research is to further elucidate the properties of the neutrino. Presently, the absolute neutrino mass scale remains of the most elusive yet unanswered questions regarding the fundamental properties of neutrinos. Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has recently begun to develo ...

High temperature superconductor (HTS) based wires provide the opportunity for ground breaking advances in the field levels and operating conditions of high field magnets, while greatly reducing their weight, size and power consumption. This program will establish and prove the technical approach, based on the Bi2212 (Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2Ox) HTS material, for a first- of-its-kind, strong, high-current HTS ...

First commercial High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) are all tape shaped (widths > 10 times thickness), because achieving useful current densities required them to be processed into tape form, even though this also makes it more problematic to use them in some important coil types, for example in ramped and ac field modes; compact, high uniformity solenoid coils; and in large coils where low in ...

It is critical to have a validated modeling tool for fluid bed-based chemical looping combustion to develop scaled-up designs of equipment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal and biomass fuels in power generation. The proposed work aims to develop such a modeling tool for widespread use in research and industry.

Separation and concentration of rare earth elements (REEs) from coal and coal (mining and combustion) byproducts is a growing technology. DOE’s interest is evidenced by the establishment of several programs in REE recovery during recent years. In order to achieve industrial scale and reliability, process control and process development need analytical tools that can provide rapid and accurate fe ...

50653-98-I Spectral Sensitization of Nanocrystalline TiO2 by Dye Aggregates--ChemMotif, Inc., 60 Thoreau Street, Suite 211, Concord, MA 01742-2411; (781) 229-8556 Dr. Mark T. Spitler, Principal Investigator Dr. Mark T. Spitler, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82552 Amount: $74,965 Improvements are sought in the efficiency and manufacturability of dye-sensitized solar cells. The dye ...

50326-98-I Species Selective Pressure Gauge for High Performance Divertors--HY-Tech Research Corporation, 104 Centre Court, Radford Industrial Center, Radford, VA 24141-5123; (540) 639-4019 Dr. C. Christopher Klepper, Principal Investigator Dr. Robert C. Hazelton, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82592 Amount: $55,008 The species selective penning gauge diagnostic, presently used fo ...