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Mission Power will develop a megawatt scale power supply for the superconducting magnet on a Tokamak fusion system. Fusion has the potential to generate large amounts of carbon free energy but has many technical challenges to achieve commercial reality. One of those challenges is the power supply for the superconducting magnet. There are multiple high-power coils that each need a power supply. The ...

Manufacturing lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) involves a series of complex production steps, and defects introduced at any step can lead to batteries which must be discarded. The primary QA/QC testing occurs at the end of production, on assembled and charged batteries; this is costly, time consuming, wasteful and costly. Relying on end of line electrical QA/QC testing also makes determining failure m ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the United States, transportation is the leading source of emissions among major industries. This puts pressure on cities to optimize transportation infrastructures to meet decarbonization goals. City planners are required to ingest data from a variety of sources and balance a wide array of priorities ranging from mobility and equality to safety and sustainability. Making decisions for optimal ...

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 ...