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29 Enzyme Facilitated Transport Membranes--Sapient Catalytechs, Inc., P.O. Box 580284, , Houston, TX 77258-0284; (281) 333-5093 Dr. Russell L. Smith, Principal Investigator Dr. Michael C. Trachtenberg, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82472 Amount: $74,990 There is a great need for improvements in efficient methods to reduce the cost of removing carbon dioxide from flue gas and nat ...

A NOVEL CLASS OF TIME AND POSITION SENSITIVE (XYT) PARTICLE DETECTOR AND SUPPORTING ELECTRONICS IS PROPOSED WHICH CAN AFFORD A PRACTICAL MEANS OF COMBINING IMAGING AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) ANALYSES IN A VARIETY OF ADVANCED INSTRUMENTS. DETECTOR SYSTEMS FOR PHOTONS, ELECTRONS AND IONS ARE TYPICALLY THE FIRST COMPONENTS IN MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION INSTRUMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS HERE CAN HAV ...

THE UNCERTAINTY IN MEASURING NEUTRON DOSE EQUIVALENT RATES RESULTS IN UNCERTAINTY IN ASSIGNMENT OF THE PROPER DOSE TO OCCUPATIONAL RECORDS AND CAN RESULT IN IMPROPER IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROLS TO LIMIT THE EXPOSURE. A NOVEL PORTABLE NEUTRON SPECTROMETER IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL REDUCE THE UNCERTAINTY OF SUCH MEASUREMENTS TO LESS THAN 20%. MANYCOMPONENTS OF THIS DEVICE ARE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE. SYS ...

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A STRUCTURAL SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LARGE APERTURE, STRETCHED MEMBRANE HELIOSTATS WILL BE DEVELOPED. THIS SUPPORT SYSTEM PROVIDES A TRACKING PLATFORM AND RESISTANCE TO THE WIND LOADENVIRONMENT. STRETCHED MEMBRANE HELIOSTATS ENJOY A SIMPLICITY AND STRUCTURAL EFFICIENCY THAT RESULTS IN LOW REFLECTOR COSTS. MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY IS PARTICULARLY SUITEDTO CAPTURE ECONOMIES OF SCALE THROUGH LARGE APERTURE CON ...

BLENDS OF BIOBASED FIBER SOURCES ARE MANUFACTURED AND CHARACTERIZED BY ASPECT RATIO FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE IN A BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER AS MEASURED BY MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE MORPHOLOGY IN COMPRESSION MOLDED TEST SPECIMENS. FROM 18 FORMULATIONS OF BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER, THREE ARE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE AND USED IN A BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER COMPOSITE STUDY IN CO ...

THE TARGET OF THE PROPOSED PROCESS IS TO CONVERT NATURAL GASFROM SMALLER OR LARGER NATURAL GAS SOURCES (INCLUDING SMALL OUTLYING GAS WELLS OR CO-PRODUCED GAS OUT OF A CRUDE OIL PRODUCING WELL) INTO CRUDE METHANOL AND HYDROCARBONS, AND CENTRALLY CONVERT THESE CRUDE LIQUIDS FURTHER INTO COMPONENTS FOR GASOLINE USE. A LOW-COST PROCESS FOR THESE CONVERSIONS HAS BEEN INVENTED BY DR. VAN DIJK AND MR. FR ...

TRADITIONALLY, SUPE2RCONDUCTING CAVITIES FOR LARGE ELECTRON POSITION COLLIDERS ARE FABRICATED FROM HIGH PURITY NIOBIUM (NB) SHEETS USING LATHE SPINNING AND WELDING. THESE CAVITIES SUFFER FROM THE PROBLEM OF THERMOMAGNETIC BREAKDOWN RESULTING FROM THE RELATIVELY POOR THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF NB AT LIQUID HELIUM TEMPERATURES. A MORE ELEGANT AND LOW COST SOLUTION TO THE BREAKDOWN PROBLEMS IS THE USE ...

ACTIVATED CARBON IS FREQUENTLY USED TO ABSORB ORGANIC MATERIALS FROM AIR AND WATER IN MANY INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS. IN PARTICULAR, ACTIVATED CARBON IS USED TO ABSORB VOLATILE ORGANICS FROM THE EXHAUST AIR IN THE PRINTING AND PAINTING INDUSTRIES. A NECESSARY PART OF SUCH OPERATIONS IS THE REGENERATION OF THE ACTIVATED CARBON WITH SIMULTANEOUS RECOVERY OF THE ORGANIC MATERIAL, WHICH IS GENERALLY VERY ...

155 High Current Diamond Microtip Cathode--Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC), 401 Camp Craft Road, Austin, TX 78746-6558; (512) 306-1100 Dr. Keith D. Jamison, Principal Investigator Ms. Diane Joyce, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82493 Amount: $75,000 There exists a continuing need for high current, field emission electron sources (i.e., cold cathodes) for use in ...