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Identification and Significance of the Opportunity. Perchlorate is a water-soluble anion that has emerged as a major contaminant of drinking groundwater sources in the United States. Various states have set public health goals for acceptable perchlorate levels in drinking water. For example, the State of California established a maximum concentration limit (MCL) of 6 ppb (mg/L) in October 2007 and ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes to develop a regenerable, low-cost, high-efficiency pollution control technology for removal of gaseous pollutants from contaminated air streams. This innovative air filter technology will combine our novel proprietary Microlith® support elements with sorbent nanomaterials that can be tailored to capture a variety of targeted gaseous pollutants. Originall ...

According to the Department of Energy, the built environment represents more than 70 percent of U.S. electrical load and 38 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity used by lighting, water heating, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) are projected to remain relatively flat by 2030, but miscellaneous electric loads (MELs) are projected to increase dramatically, from 18 perc ...

A great deal of progress has been made in delivery of highly mature building systems energy simulation tools. However, application of these highly sophisticated methods tends to remain limited to a relatively small population of high profile buildings. Elements that influence this limitation include the time required to formulate an appropriate building system model, the time required to execut ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Personal Nanoparticle Counter This proposal addresses the need for a rugged, wearable instrument for the precise, real-time monitoring of airborne number concentrations for fine, ultrafine and nanometer-sized particles. Proposed is a new type of laminar-flow water condensation method that detects and counts particles as small as 5 nm in a tippable device. We ...