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Over the past decade, advances in shale characterization and stimulation technology have opened Hydrocarbon bearing shale to exploitation. The success of all of these plays can depend on the proper characterization of the shale reservoir. To determine if favorable composition and structure are present, it is currently necessary to conduct a number of different analyses that are time consuming and ...

A 2008 DOE report [1] indicated that up to 903 terrabtu per year of unrecovered low level industrial waste heat (IWH) in the US is available for conversion to electricity. Converting this heat to electricity at 30% conversion efficiency would produce ~9 GW of electric power, an equivalent to about 4.5 Hoover Dam outputs. Efficient low cost recovery of low level IWH at significant scale could displ ...

Tetramer developed a novel type of security coating that has generated significant interest in both DoD and commercial markets; however, the reproducibility and Manufacturing Readiness Level of the coatings is too low to transition this technology to interested markets. Tetramer proposes this Phase IIB to design and build a coater device enabling reproducible processing of these materials for the ...

Sea water contains about 3 parts per billion of uranium. With a total ocean volume of approximately 1.3×109 km3, there is at least 4.5 billion tons of uranium in seawater which is about 1000 times the amount of uranium known to exist in terrestrial ores. Developing efficient and reusable adsorbent for economic extraction of uranium from seawater is an active research area in the USA and other cou ...

The feasibility of fusion as a practical energy source needs to be improved significantly by removing some of the restrictions that low temperature superconductors put on the fusion magnet systems. One method to simplify the magnet system is by using high temperature superconductors (HTS) that allow for a higher magnet performance and much larger temperature margins. Successful application of HTS ...

Efficient, cost effective methods for converting relatively inexpensive natural gas, available through existing pipelines, to Hydrogen rich syngas are needed. The reformed gas can then be converted into higher value products or cleaned and used with in fuel cell and other applications. The proposed plasma fuel reformer is a non-catalytic approach that avoids expensive catalysts that are susceptibl ...

High temperature superconducting wire (HTS) technology has a significant potential to become the wire of choice for helium‐free, ultra‐high field magnet systems. High‐field, helium‐free magnet systems are attracting more interest as the world supply of helium is depleted and new science facilities are demanding magnetic field levels much higher than accessible by niobium‐based supercondu ...

Development of liquid transportation fuels from biomass is an essential part of diversifying the U.S. energy portfolio. Algae represents a promising next generation bioenergy source for producing energy from renewable sources because of the fast growth and high oil content of certain algae strains. However, because of very dilute concentrations of algae in the feed and consequently very large volu ...

Advanced high energy electron accelerators based upon laser plasma acceleration rely on using capillary discharges for both forming the plasma and providing a means for guiding the intense laser beam over distances much longer than the Rayleigh range. Scaling these devices to high energy levels requires using long capillary discharges with relatively low onaxis electron densities while still maint ...

AmBe (α,n) radiochemical neutron sources are used in the US oil & gas industry for geophysical well logging. Due to the adverse radiological and material properties 241AmBe, there is an urgent need to prevent intentional or accidental diversion and/or use as a radiological dispersal device. With over 9000 active sources in the field, it is difficult to track and safeguard these materials. Develop ...