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70576 The Nb3Sn superconductor is an enabling technology that will determine the future of high-energy hadron colliders for high energy physics research. Unfortunately, the cost of the Nb3Sn superconductor is ten times that of other superconductors. The high cost comes not from materials, but from the necessity to fabricate the multi-filament wire in small batches. Batch size is limited by ...

65438 Large particles must be efficiently removed from powders used to fabricate superconducting wire. The presence of even a trace amount of large particles can ruin the superconducting properties of a large batch of wire, and limit the performance of all wire made with the powder-in-tube process. This project will apply an aerosol sorting technology to remove this limitation to supercon ...

65438 Large particles must be efficiently removed from powders used to fabricate superconducting wire. The presence of even a trace amount of large particles can ruin the superconducting properties of a large batch of wire, and limit the performance of all wire made with the powder-in-tube process. This project will apply an aerosol sorting technology to remove this limitation to supercon ...

70307 Many DOE sites have the need to monitor radionuclide contamination in surface water, groundwater, soils, and the vadose zone. In many cases, a real-time and/or remote monitoring capability is desired. Existing site characterization procedures typically involve the collection and shipment of samples to an off-site laboratory, which leads to costly delays in site remediation as ...

70020 Future high energy physics devices require large quantities of high performance superconducting strand at a reasonable cost. Although oxide superconductors offer superior performance and higher field than presently available metallic conductors, they are made in small quantities using labor intensive methods. Cutting these high production costs would make them technically and eco ...

70560 New mid-infrared laser sources, such as the Quantum Cascade (QC) laser, are necessary to develop advanced and inexpensive gas sensing systems to monitor industrial-related chemical processes, including combustion and pollution effluent. This project will develop QC lasers with emission wavelengths near 10 ¿m, suitable for sensing ammonia, volatile organic hydrocarbons, and other ...

70559 New mid-infrared laser sources, such as the Quantum Cascade (QC) laser, are necessary to develop advanced and inexpensive gas sensing systems to monitor chemical processes, including combustion and pollution effluent, for national security applications. This project will develop continuous-wave QC lasers that can be operated at temperatures accessible with a thermoelectric cooler, mak ...

70460 A cost-effective time-of-flight (TOF) particle detector will improve particle identification at much higher momentum than is possible with dE/dx methods at next generation particle accelerators. Particle identification will in turn enable improved determination of the temperature of the fireball from which these particles are created. This project will build and test a low-cost TOF ...

70132 Although the cold production of heavy oil reservoirs can enhance oil production, the accompanying sand production presents environment problems related to cleaning and disposal of the produced sand. Also, sand production can damage downhole pumps and surface equipment. A method of sand control is needed that not only protects well productivity and minimizes formation damage caused ...

65017 Oil well formation damage is detrimental to the oil production rate and ultimate recovery from carbonate reservoirs that contain 3.7 billion barrels of proved domestic reserve. This project will develop an innovative well stimulation technique, based on laboratory measurements of wettability alteration coupled with artificial intelligence, to design well treatments. Phase I laborator ...