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5 Photocatalytic Optical Fiber Sensor For Heavy Metals--Nanomaterials Research Corporation, 2849 East Elvira Road, Tucson, AZ 85706-7126; (520) 294-7115 Dr. Jim Dong, Principal Investigator Dr. Tapesh Yadav, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82440 Amount: $75,000 Numerous commercial operations and the Department of Energy¿s environmental management program seek reliable waste remedi ...

41291 November 19, 1996 FM Technologies, Inc. The window is currently the single most serious mode of failure of high power gyrotrons, a device for heating magnetic fusion plasmas. This project will develop a new technique for joining ceramic materials, used for these windows, to the metals that hold the windows in place. A pulsed induction coil system w ...

171 Rapid Quench Nb3Al for High Field Accelerator Applications--Plastronic, Inc., 35 Mary-Bill Drive, Troy, OH 45373-1033; (937) 335-0656 Mr. Michael Tomsic, Principal Investigator Mr. Michael Tomsic, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER82460 Amount: $75,000 Niobium-aluminide wires have been recently identified as a strain-tolerant superconductor for high-field magnet applications use ...

40235 November 6, 1996 ISOTRON Corporation The nation¿s inventory of contaminated soil has been estimated at 200 million tons. This work focuses on the selective extraction of contaminants from soil using a bio-reagent, i.e., naturally occurring chemicals produced by plants. The process provides for the highly selective solubilization of heavy metal ...

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RELIABLE INTRUSION DETECTION MAY BE ACHIEVED BY COMBINING GENERALIZED POTENTIAL FUNCTION (GPF) NEURAL NET CONSTRUCTION AND MULTIPLE SENSOR DATA FUSION. TRADITIONALLY, RELIABLE INTRUSION DETECTION CAN BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE NOISE LEVELS CHANGE WITH TIME AND LOCATION, AND AN INTRUSION MAY PRODUCE A WIDE RANGE OF SIGNALS OR VARIATIONS OVER THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SENSORS. ACCOMMODATING THESE VARIATION ...

A NEW TECHNIQUE, PULSED ELECTRON BEAM (PEB) JOINING, WILL BE APPLIED TO THE PROBLEM OF JOINING, LOW-LOSS CERAMIC MATERIALS USED FOR WINDOWS IN HIGH FREQUENCY MICROWAVE DEVICES TO THE METAL VACUUM ENVELOPE OF THE MICROWAVE DEVICE. THE PEB TECHNIQUE ALLOWS SELECTIVE HEATING OF THE SPECIMEN TO BE JOINED THROUGH PREFERENTIAL ENERGY DEPOSITION THAT IS CONTROLLED BY A COMBINATION OF THE ELECTRON BEAM P ...

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THE RECENT MAJOR ADVANCES IN SURFACE HARDENING OF POLYMERS BY ION IRRADIATION OPENED UP THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REPLACING MANY CURRENT PARTS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. THERE ARE MANY GEAR APPLICATIONS WHERE THE USE OF POLYMERS IS DESIRABLE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF NOISE, COST, AND/OR WEIGHT REDUCTION. HOWEVER, POLYMERS TEND NOT TO DO WELL IN WEAR AND FRICTION APPLICATIONS BECAUSE OF THEIR LOW HARDNES ...