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Under this Phase II effort, the design of a modular 60 kw (3.6 MJ) shock tolerant composite flywheel for backup/ride through power will be finalized. This composite flywheel design will make use of a novel low cost thermal press cure process to fabricate the individual composite rings used to build up the flywheel. The manufacturing process parameters used in previous hydroburst testing of initial ...

There is an urgent need to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from coal burning power plants. Current CO2 capture technologies are too expensive and not economically viable. A new technology that can capture ~90% of the CO2 and significantly reduce the cost of capture is required for commercial viability. Statement of How this Problem is Being Addressed:This project is aimed at the development of ...

Synchrotron light sources and X-ray free electron lasers are now generating shorter pulses with more intense light than ever before possible. The capabilities of these new sources grant unprecedented access into the workings of the natural world. X-ray detectors, as they currently stand, cannot accommodate the large dynamic range of collected x-rays in modern scattering experiments. This capabilit ...

The capabilities of modern x-ray light sources have opened up new areas of research in the study of in-situ fast irreversible processes. Irreversible processes or “single shot” experiments are challenging since they require detectors that can obtain a succession of x-ray images within the time frame of the process in question. This requires high sensitivity, wide dynamic range x-ray detection ...

Advances in computational and experimental research have led to enormous increases in the volume and complexity of scientific data. Research workflows must be significantly enhanced to realize the full potential of scientific discovery. This sentiment is shared by many leaders in the scientific community including Jim Gray, a Turing award winner who stated in his Fourth Paradigm Lecture “We have ...

A critical demand in today’s world is the need for efficiently managing, operating, and securing the network infrastructure and environment. It is very important to allow scientists to operate uninterrupted on high-speed networks and enable them to make scientific discoveries. It is critical to discover and avert constantly increasing cybersecurity attacks and cyber terrorism that are serious th ...

Fast evolution of supercomputer architecture lead to an increasingly error-prone, lengthy and costly problem of porting existing applications to new architectures. For a useful category of compute-intensive, loop-based codes such as found in DOE applications, solutions exist that take sequential code and optimize it for modern parallel computers, but these expect a “de-optimized” form as input ...

Large-scale computing systems, formerly relegated to research institutions and behind closed doors, are now often used for critical infrastructure modeling and control. These high-performance computing systems are frequently geographically distributed and exposed to the Internet, making them attractive resources for misuse and cyberattack. As high-performance computing systems grow even more popul ...

The simulation of magnetically confined plasmas requires consideration of multiple overlapping scales. Continuum models address reactor scale behaviors, while particle methods capture fine scale behavior. The complex combination of physics and reactor geometry results in simulations involving massive calculations and data sets, which can only be executed on parallel computers. Thus, there is a cri ...

OLED lighting panels have been available commercially for several years, with relatively slow adoption into commercial and consumer fixtures in the US. This project addresses both channels through the commercialization of an ultra-thin, bendable, high-efficacy OLED light engine in which a panel and driver are engineered together in one low-cost, easy-to-use package. The most significant benefit of ...