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Significant commercial scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are necessary to achieve the climate change mitigation goal of greatly reducing the global CO2 emissions, while allowing for the utilization of fossil fuels as a transitional power source to continue. There is a diverse portfolio of enabling technologies for global climate change mitigation available for ...

Automotive, defense, and other companies seek to bring safer products to market, faster, through leveraging engineering simulation software. However, mainstream software requires extraordinarily complex procedures to prepare computer-aided design data for simulation. Even today’s best methods for high-profile problems like simulating automotive crashes require millions of dollars of manual labor ...

The emerging field of isogeometric analysis promises to accelerate overall time to solution for a broad category of engineering simulations, including automotive crash, advanced manufacturing techniques, and nuclear energy simulation. While isogeometric analysis advances have been made in each area of the simulation process, including preprocessing, solving, and postprocessing, there does not exis ...

The exponential increase in the production of lithium-ion batteries and their relatively short lifetimes (3-10 years) will inevitably lead to the generation of huge numbers of spent batteries. Current world’s recycling capacity can only process about 5% of the total end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, through costly, high-temperature, and energy intensive pyrometallurgical processes. The proposin ...

Recent advances in synchrotron photon sources and the introduction of the free electron laser have created x- ray sources of unprecedented brightness, coherency, and energy. These sources are at the leading edge in the quest to understand the structure and interactions of matter at atomic scales, and they are indispensables tools for science and industry. The challenge now is to transport such pre ...

Naturally occurring radionuclides (uranium or thorium), metals of environmental concern (arsenic or lead), and critical metals (rare earth elements) are widely distributed in the earth’s crust. So, it’s no surprise that hydrocarbon extraction processes in the US often produce some waste materials that contain some level of these metals of interest. Both the rapidity and the extent of the U.S. ...

Characterizing naturally fractured reservoirs is essential for subsurface energy applications, including hydrocarbon exploration, geothermal development, and carbon storage evaluation. However, predicting fracture properties (density, aperture, permeability, etc.) is difficult, especially in areas where there are few existing wells. There are three general approaches for characterizing naturally f ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project aims to leverage the recent advancement of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to enable a compact and portable fuel cell system with a system-level volumetric power density of 3000W/L, which can serve as the lightweight power source for US Army. Storagenergy Technologies, Inc. (Storagenergy) proposes a compact SOFC system for portable power source ...

Traditionally, small platforms that need to communicate with airborne platforms use omnidirectional antennas. This makes it simple to communicate with mobile airborne platforms but reduces the communication link range compared to directional antennas. However, directional antennas require pointing at the airborne platform, which requires a means of moving the antenna to follow the motion of the ai ...

The coordination of manned and unmanned aircraft, artillery, firing lanes, and ground forces can be enhanced by a lane-based approach to asset trajectory planning. In the proposed Phase II STTR effort, we plan to develop an approach, software prototype, simulation, and test and evaluation framework for the coordination of the trajectories of a large number of airborne coalition assets and dynamic ...