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America needs alternative energy sources to supplement or supplant traditional nonrenewable sources. Biomass, particularly wood waste, has become a desirable candidate; however, its high moisture content (as high as 50% by weight) and its difficulty in handling complicate the transport of wood waste. This project will develop technology for using biomass in the form of fuel pellets, processed at ...

The primary objective of this effort is to design and develop a database management system (DBMS) and enable the integrated interpretation of the vast amounts of genomic and proteomic data in proper biological context. This DBMS will enable the development of diagnostic assays for human exposure to specific biological threat agents using an existing suite of systems biology tools. The DBMS design ...

Increases in amount and diversity of high-throughput data presents tremendous organizational and analysis challenges to researchers. Our objective in this effort is to address these challenges by designing and implementing a database management system (cipherDB) for the storage, management, analysis, and visualization of diverse biological data types. The Phase I design and implementation of ciphe ...

DOE¿s FutureGen Initiative involves the development and demonstration of fuel-flexible gas turbine combustors that burn fuels with high hydrogen concentrations (e.g. syngas or pure hydrogen). Combustion goals include high efficiency and low emissions (NOx < 2 ppmv). Advanced Large Eddy Simulation (LES) analysis is expected to play an important role in developing fuel-flexible combustion technolog ...

Cellulose is a highly sustainable global resource with considerable relevance to bio-ethanol production. Lignocellulose is a naturally occurring complex of plant-derived materials that includes the hydrophilic sugar polymers cellulose and hemicellulose, and the hydrophobic organic polymer lignin. Although lignocellulose is one of the most abundant and widespread bioenergy feedstocks available on E ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has recognized that the generation of strong shock waves in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) can lead to cavitation and significant erosion on the vessel wall containing the liquid mercury target. Based on preliminary numerical and experimental work at ORNL and other laboratories, it has been proposed that a cloud of small gas bubbles in the mercury tar ...

OakRidge National Laboratory (ORNL) has recognized that the generation of strong shock waves in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) can lead to cavitation and significant erosion of the wall of the liquid mercury target. Based on preliminary numerical and experimental work at ORNL and other laboratories, it has been proposed that the insertion of a cloud of small gas bubbles or a gas layer in the ...

The generation of a strong shock wave in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) can lead to cavitation and significant erosion on the vessel wall containing the liquid mercury target. Based on preliminary numerical and experimental work at various laboratories, it has been proposed that strategies such as inserting a cloud of small gas bubbles or a gas layer in the mercury target could absorb and de ...

The generation of a strong shock wave in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) can lead to cavitation and significant erosion on the vessel wall containing the liquid mercury target. Based on preliminary numerical and experimental work at various laboratories, it has been proposed that a cloud of small gas bubbles in the mercury target could absorb and deflect the shock waves and protect the walls ...

It is not unusual to retrieve thousands or millions of results for a search query. Even though search engines try to rank search results by importance, the order of the results often does not reflect the interest of the person doing the search, and it is still necessary to browse through many pages of sparsely relevant information. When the results of several search engines are combined, as in m ...