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Every year, the world uses close to 100 trillion standard cubic feet of natural gas, all of which is pre-treated before entering to the pipeline, making natural gas processing by far the largest market for industrial gas separation processes and equipment. A particular need remains in the separation of CH4 and N2 to reduce the high costs involved in the cryogenic distillation based N2 rejection sy ...

Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) technology is attractive due to lack of exhaust produced (only heat and water) and the possibility of reducing our dependence on hydrocarbon fuel sources. One impediment to widespread adoption of hydrogen FCEV has been high production costs, driven in part by the need to over-engineer carbon-fiber-overwrap-pressure vessels (COPV) which carry the compress ...

Heavy-duty diesel vehicles lose on average a third of their engine efficiency to thermal waste heat and a further tenth to parasitic electrical draw for auxiliary electrical systems from mechanical efficiency. These inefficiencies contribute among others to their average fuel economy of six miles per gallon, well below EPA 2027 targets for reduced emissions and improved energy consumption. Despite ...

Many of today’s oil producers are forced to flare associated natural gas or shut-in wells because they cannot economically bring the gas to market. Natural gas flaring and venting exposes produc- ers to environmental liabilities, reduces potential revenues, and depreciates assets. Initially, this project will focus on a particularly acute problem for many producers—the co-production (with oil) ...

The problem/situation that is being addressed concerns the development of near infrared ultrafast interference coatings(IC) for high average power femtosecond lasers that will meet the specifications of the DoE solicitation: “broad-bandwidth, laser damage threshold of 0.5 J/cm2 (1 ps), engineered using a process that is scalable to large areas.” Advances in compact high gradient laser-driven p ...

In some areas of the USA and Europe, the installed capacity of renewable generation has reached a level at which wholesale energy prices can drop below zero due to overproduction relative to baseload capacity. The value of energy exported to the grid for behind-the-meter (BTM) systems is dropping, with policies in many states now promoting self-consumption of produced energy rather than net-meteri ...

Solar electricity price has dropped dramatically, making it the cheapest electricity to add to the grid in many locations. Its variable nature is now becoming a challenge to integrate into the electricity grid. Affordable, scalable, long-term energy storage is required to enable continued low-cost solar electricity deployment. Solar electricity can be used to make fuel, which provides long term en ...

In order to better understand and protect watersheds, we must: 1) Collect data characterizing these systems; 2) Analyze these data in an integrated and holistic fashion to characterize the state of the watershed in a meaningful and actionable way; and, 3) Leverage this characterization to build predictive models capable of anticipating the response of a watershed to specific events including, e.g. ...

In order to develop the next-generation of low-emission energy-efficient combustion devices, high-fidelity computational tools are needed that could enable engineers to maximize efficiency of their designs in a minimal time frame. High-performance exascale simulations of combustion phenomena are critically important to understand and develop novel combustion technologies operating at high pressure ...

Modern particle accelerator facilities generate large amounts of data and face increasing demands on their operational performance. These datasets can be difficult to visualize and contain complex relationships that are challenging to understand. Additionally, as the demand on accelerator operations increases so does the need for automated tuning algorithms and control to maximize uptime with redu ...