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79252 As environmental regulations become increasingly stringent, there is mounting pressure on automobile manufacturers to substantially lower unburnt hydrocarbon emissions. This will require monitoring the hydrocarbon content in the exhaust with more accuracy than currently possible using the two oxygen sensor system. This requirement is especially important during start-up conditions, which a ...

Novel Ultracapacitor: Tungsten Nitride Aerogel Electrode with Polyoxometalate Polymers Electrolyte DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-98ER86073 Amount: $100,000 Small Business Chemat Technology, Inc. 19365 Business Center Drive Suite 8 Northridge, CA 91324-3526 Dr. Yuhong Huang, Principal Investigator Ms. Jenny Sajoto, Business Official (818) 727-9786 Research Institution Auburn University 207 Samford Ha ...

High Energy and Power Ultracapacitors Utilizing Novel Type III Polymers and Non-Aqueous Electrolytes DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER86074 Amount: $100,000 Small Business Covalent Associates, Inc. 10 State Street Woburn, MA 01801-6820 Dr. Alan B. McEwan, Principal Investigator Dr. K.M. Abraham, Business Official (781) 938-1140 Research Institution University of Texas-Dallas 2601 North Floyd Road Ri ...

The preservation of experimental data gathered by the nuclear physics community is being compromised by the dramatic increase in the rate of data generation. Physicists need to be able to easily archive the data, along with its experimental context and their current analysis procedures, in order to prepare for future breakthroughs in analysis technology and/or potential changes of the group perfo ...

Animal waste is a potentially valuable energy resource, but it cannot be shipped economically. If the waste could be converted to hydrogen, the hydrogen could be used in fuel cells to provide electricity and space heating to farms and other rural facilities. Unfortunately, the only presently available technology for doing this conversion, steam reforming, is not economical for small installatio ...

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78289 Both of the presently available technologies for separating oxygen from air are energy intensive, using large amounts of pressure-volume work from electrically driven compressors. The use of large amounts of electrical energy makes oxygen separation quite expensive. This project will develop a new technology called Push-Pull Adsorption, which allows the use of steam rather than electricit ...

For efficient operation, coal-fired Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plants require high-pressure (400 psi) oxygen for gasification. However, the economic feasibility of these systems is currently limited by the high cost of oxygen. This project will develop technology for generating high pressure oxygen from pressurized steam and atmospheric-pressure air. The approach will c ...

Stored nuclear waste must be retrieved from storage, treated, separated into low- and high-level waste streams, and finally put into a disposal form that effectively encapsulates the waste and isolates it from the environment for a long period of time. However, before the waste can be retrieved, the waste composition must be characterized so that proper safety precautions can be implemented durin ...

70558 The control and dynamic operation of Fuel Cell/Turbine Hybrid power plants will require a synergy of operation between subsystems, increased reliability of operation, and reduction in maintenance and downtime. Futhermore, the control strategy of the power plant will play a significant role in system stability and in ensuring the protection of equipment to promote maximum life. T ...