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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to improve the quality and efficiency of bedside spinal access procedures by developing a needle guidance system that interfaces with existing ultrasound machines. Lumbar punctures (LPs) are performed to diagnose and treat neurological conditions such as meningitis. The traditional LP tech ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to enable advanced 3D printing materials to solve challenges in emerging electronic devices, transportation technologies, heating and cooling system for buildings, and in thermal management in manufacturing processes. Overheating is a major challenge as electrical devices continue to grow ...

"The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the development of a robotic solution to automate a dangerous and repetitive rebar tying task in construction. Rebar tying is performed by “rodbusters”, 88% of whom reported that they suffered some form of musculoskeleton disorder during their career. Removing the repetitive bending o ...

Knowledge of the in-situ state of stress is essential to ensure safe and cost-effective subsurface operations for carbon storage, geothermal and oil and gas applications. In carbon storage operations, reliable characterization of the in-situ stress state in the complex storage reservoirs and the cap rock formations is critical for safe storage of CO2 and minimizing potential environmental hazards ...

Emrgy, Inc., a pioneer in commercializing hydrokinetic power systems, is teaming with Premier Energy Holdings, Stanford University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a highly innovative solution to low-cost, riverine and tidal-based clean energy power generation. The project will implement “dynamic tuning” of the hydrokinetic turbine system to optimize performance across variabl ...

Emrgy, Inc., a pioneer in commercializing hydrokinetic power systems, is teaming with Premier Energy Holdings, Stanford University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a highly innovative solution to low-cost, riverine and tidal-based clean energy power generation. The project will implement “dynamic tuning” of the hydrokinetic turbine system to optimize performance across variabl ...

Digital Pipelines combines modern DevOps practices with MBSE to accelerate continuous integration (CI), verification (CV), and delivery (CD) of complex systems. Digital Pipelines enables automated and scheduled workflows with digital threads that connect models/data of a system distributed in multiple tools. With Digital Pipelines, system engineers can schedule an automated workflow that fetches t ...

Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycles are superior to traditional water based, air-breathing, direct- fired, open Brayton cycles or indirect-fired, closed Rankine cycles in terms of efficiency and equipment size. They hold great potential in nuclear power production, fossil fuel power plants, concentrated solar power, geothermal power, and ship propulsion. To unlock the potential of sCO2 power cyc ...

Phase change materials (PCMs) store large amounts of latent heat during phase transitions and, therefore, are used as thermal energy storage (TES) materials in a variety of applications. Applications of TES in buildings are of particular interest for their potential to increase a building’s thermal mass and provide flexibility to time‐shift demand for grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs ...

Interference of unburned and activated carbon in fly ash with air-entraining admixtures (AEA’s) in fresh concrete mixtures is a major concern in the concrete industry. Therefore, a rapid and accurate measurement of adsorption capacity of fly ash is of great interest to this industry.In this project, a new method is suggested, which can qualitatively and quantitatively measure different surfactan ...