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This proposal is in answer to Topic 55, Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems, subtopic (c) Superconducting Magnets and Materials. Work has started worldwide for the design of an advanced fusion project beyond the present funded ITER demonstration. The future fusion reactor design will require lower cost, much higher performing superconductor wires in the 14-20 T range. F ...

Abundant cellulosic biomass is an ideal starting material for biofuels, but unlocking the latent energy potential of cellulose is technically difficult because cellulose is one of nature

Ultracapacitors have the potential to be high-power energy sources for electric and hybrid vehicles. Current ultracapacitors based on microporous carbon electrodes have low capacitance and high resistance, mainly because almost all of the carbon

Ethanol is a versatile chemical that is used as a chemical solvent, sterilizer, antifreeze, chemical intermediate, but mostly an oxygenate in fuels. Ethanol is produced primarily by fermentation of grains; however, there are a few industrial processes that manufacture high purity ethanol, mostly from the hydration of ethylene. Due to its projected use as an oxygenate in gasoline, ethanol demand i ...

Rapid and encouraging progress in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics (BHJ OPV) has made them one of the most promising new technologies for inexpensively generating electricity from sunshine. However, power conversion efficiencies remain about ~60% of what is thought to be required in order for them to be commercially viable. Moreover, the champion devices incorporate both vacuum-deposited ...

Thermoelectric power plants and refineries use large quantities of water for cooling, placing large demands on conventional water resources. This is especially true in arid locations, where groundwater may be the only source. To ease the burden and free up conventional water resources for agricultural and potable water use, there is increasing interest in developing technologies that could allow t ...

The US Department of Energy is promoting the development of renewable transportation fuels to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The DOE also has an interest in promoting new technologies that take advantage of the excess reactive distillation capacity that has resulted from regulations on oxygenated fuel additives in the chemical industry. A new solid catalyzed reactive distillation process wo ...

Many scientists rely on transport protocols such as GridFTP to transfer very large

While the DOE has spent billions of dollars over the past two decades building, staffing and equipping four national synchrotron radiation facilities to support advanced research in all fields by supplying intense brilliant x-ray beams covering a wide range of energies, x-ray detector capabilities have not kept pace with developments in x-ray sources and beam line facilities. Thus, while x-ray fl ...

Achieving efficiency improvements and providing demand-response programs have been identified as key elements of our national energy initiative. The residential market is the largest, yet most difficult, segment to engage in efforts to meet these objectives. This project will develop an Energy Management System that engages the consumer and enables Smart Grid services, applications, and business p ...