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Abstract: One of the main roadblocks to higher efficiencies for warm-white LED light sources is spectrally-wide red-emitting bulk phosphors, which emit a significant amount of their energy either in the far red or infrared where the eyes response is poor or zero. Consequently, employing these phosphors (along with bulk green-yellow emitting ones) will result in desired warmer light sources, howev ...

Statement of the Problem / Situation: The clean coal (selective catalytic, fluidized bed, etc.) combustion technologies adopted by power plants largely emphasize control of sulfur and nitrogen oxide emissions. These technologies tend to increase the quantity of the solid residues of coal combustion, and compromise the quality of these residues in existing applications of coal ash. There is thus a ...

The DOE Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) seeks developments in detector instrumentation electronics. Grant applications are sought to develop circuits (including firmware) and systems, for rapidly processing data from particle detectors: gas detectors, scintillation counters, silicon drift chambers, silicon pixel and strip detectors, or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)). Our electronics will provide ...

Statement of the problem that is being addressed: Electron-Ion colliders including the medium energy electron ion collider, (MEIC) proposed by JLAB requires electron cooling to meet beam brightness requirements. Present electron gun technology limits the combination of beam current and beam energy that can be delivered. New technology is required to produce high current low energy spread electro ...

An important tool in the regulation and monitoring of nuclear proliferation is remote sensing involving the analysis of thermal hyperspectral images. The hyperspectral radiance of a suspected target can be decomposed separated) into components related to the targets spectral emissions, reflections of its surroundings, and atmospheric effects using Temperature- Emissivity-Separation analysis. ...

Biomass is a unique renewable energy resource that can be converted to power, carbon-based fuels, or chemicals. However, bioenergy generation using biomass introduces a number of aggressive species such as alkali halide salts into process environments, resulting in accelerated degradation of combustor components. To achieve cost effective production of bioenergy and bioproducts, a low cost protect ...

Dewatering algae from very dilute cultures 0.03-0.1% solids loading) to 20-30% loading is essential for commercial viability. A new technology that can significantly reduce energy and capital requirements for de-watering is required for algae to become economically viable for bio- fuels and other markets. This project is aimed at the development of an integrated dewatering process that will substa ...

OLEDWorks, the only OLED lighting panel maker in the US, will develop the first outdoor OLED luminaire using solar energy for lighting pedestrian areas. This luminaire will accelerate energy savings by: Reducing energy used to light pedestrian areas through taking these areas off the grid, using solar energy for power. Demonstrating how smart controls and communication can be used with OLED lighti ...

Generating leads for new business lead generation) is one of the most important costs for residential solar marketers. It is currently poorly targeted and inefficient, due to suboptimal information about the probability that target households will adopt solar. ClearGrid and Professors Ken Gillingham of Yale University and Bryan Bollinger of Duke University propose to leverage two complex data-sets ...

Internal combustion engine powered vehicles not only consume a major part of the worlds petroleum resources but also are responsible for severe air pollution. Near Zero emission electricity powered vehicles EV), hybridized electric vehicle HEV) and more recently plug-in hybridized electric vehicle PHEV) seem to be promising alternatives. However, up to date, the lack of suitable batteries and exce ...