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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to fully realize the potential for weathering of mine waste to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. By helping mining companies in this effort, this project will positively impact human health and welfare while potentially producing a competitive advantage to the domestic minin ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be to allow recycled plastics to be used more efficiently and affordably than is currently possible. Regulatory and societal pressures are forcing reconsideration of single use plastics, and manufacturers of plastic film must use recycled plastic at higher quantities. However, it is difficult for the manufac ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to increase the competitiveness of the US in manufacturing high value parts for shops with high product variety, low volumes, large lead times, and large set up times.The application addresses a need to find the optimal way of utilizing existing resources in order to maximize production rates. The proposed ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by replacing plastics with cellulose secreted by genetically modified bacteria in the form of synthetic leather. This substitution effort will assist the USA in reaching net-zero GHG emissions by saving over 660 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (C ...

NDT Corp. will take the currently developed ACTT system, which can accurately assess the internal condition of concrete crossties and increase its speed.FRA 23-FR1 requests a system that at high speeds can assess both the internal and external condition of concrete crossties.Currently there are systems that can perform the external assessment at the required speeds.However, there is no system that ...

C56-30a-273585Electron cyclotron resonance heating is a key fusion technology for: a) plasma heating; b) instability control, to stabilize instabilities such as those from Neoclassical Tearing Modes; and c) electron cyclotron assisted startup. Gyrotrons are a proven vacuum tube technology that can generate sufficient power during continuous operation to satisfy these requirements. In this Phase I ...

The intermittent nature of renewable energy resources has increased the demand for auxiliary energy storage and conversion systems like unitized reversible fuel cells. However, these systems usually have low round-trip efficiency, and this shortcoming remains a critical challenge to be solved. To improve unitized reversible fuel cell performance, the porous transport layers are critically importan ...

Currently there are several anion exchange membranes that have been developed for commercial use that have demonstrated high performance and durability. However, all the membranes that are currently available are not thermally processible, like perfluorinated membrane are for proton exchange membrane devices, therefore MEA fabrication is more laborious and not currently scalable and the MEAs fabri ...

Hydrogen is an excellent alternative to fossil fuels because it is storable, transportable, and burns cleanly, producing power without polluting the environment. Electrolyzers, which can generate hydrogen from water and electricity, are an ideal way to produce a clean, renewable fuel. Impure water electrolyzers can enable direct coupling of electrolyzers with offshore wind and electrolyzer operati ...

Problem Being Addressed – Phase II LHCb Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) upgrade for high luminosity flavor physics program at LHC is projected to overcome limitations of the present ECAL system. Upgraded ECAL modules should be tolerant to a radiation dose of about 1 MGy, capable of timing resolution of about 10 psec and energy resolution of about 10% for 5-100 GeV electrons. The choice for th ...