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Mission Power will develop a 150kW integrated Dual-Active Bridge (DAB) targeted for applications in vehicle charging. This program will leverage the work of the Mission Power 2022 DOE SBIR program “Planar Magnetic Solution for Vehicle Chargers” that developed a 150kW planar transformer. Within a vehicle charging station of the future, there will likely be a Solid-State Transformer (SST) to con ...

In a geothermal reservoir, injected water flows through certain fluid pathways such as natural or induced fractures connecting injection and production wells to harvest the thermal energy from surrounding rocks. The spatial distribution and temporal movement of the fluid in the reservoir is the determining factor of the heat-sweep efficiency. Currently, monitoring of the heat-sweep efficiency is m ...

This DOE SBIR Phase I proposal builds upon two major manufacturing technology breakthroughs to answer DOE’s call for: (1) New innovative accident tolerant LWR fuel cladding/assembly concepts that have the potential to support achieving very-high fuel burnups and (2) Improved fabrication techniques or characterization techniques for silicon carbide accident tolerant LWR fuel cladding and fuel str ...

Brine resources in the United States are not amenable to conventional approaches for lithium extraction and the process for fabricating lithium metal from these extracted materials has severe limitations which lead to expensive coatings and subpar battery performance. The proposed project will investigate the use of a novel approach to lithium extraction from brine resources which directly results ...

Floating offshore wind power is poised for rapid growth in the US, where approximately 2/3 of the US offshore wind energy potential (2.8 out of 4.3 TW) exists over waters deep enough to require the use of floating platforms. However, cost remains an obstacle to extensive, rapid deployment of floating offshore wind. Anchoring floating wind installations to the sea floor is presently up to 15% of to ...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Though decades of computational and experimental studies have advanced our understanding of coherent synchrotron radiation, next generation accelerators will produce beams that no longer conform to our existing models. Moreover, high fidelity simulations of coherent synchrotron radiation and space-charge that utilize numerical solutions to the exact point particle potentia ...

Renewable energy has the potential to supply energy worldwide, but because of its variable power output it needs to be coupled with energy storage. Electrochemical electrolysis can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be stored and re-converted into electricity later. However, this process requires ultrapure water, which is unavailable in many areas in the world, especially in island an ...

Lithium is a strategic mineral commodity that is fundamental to achieving U.S. energy independence. Today, the U.S. is reliant on other countries for a vast majority of its battery critical minerals processing, which poses risk of disruption to domestic supply chain. Our fundamental objective is to take a leading role in the development of a robust domestic minerals extraction and processing suppl ...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Fundamental improvements to the energy, brightness, and stability of next generation plasma-based accelerators are essential to maintain rapid innovation and scientific productivity. Controllable plasma channels can significantly improve electron and positron beam energy and quality from plasma-based accelerators, while plasma lens and de-chirper systems can enhance beam c ...

Statement of the problem or situation that is being addressed. The deep decarbonization of the industrial sector (e.g., cement plants, iron and steel manufacturing, hydrogen production, ethanol plants, and chemicals and petrochemicals plants) is critical to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. The conventional capture approach is to first separate/capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from process emissio ...