U.S.
Department of Energy
Small Business Innovation Research Program and
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Plasma Processes, Inc.
Flowing Liquid Lithium Walls Using
4914
Moores Mill Road
Engineered Surfaces
Huntsville,
To
enable liquid wall fusion devices, control of the liquid metal is required.
This project will develop technology needed for controlling the flow of
liquid lithium, a liquid metal under high heat flux.
Bioengineering Resources, Inc.
CO2 Sequestration in Cell Biomass
Cost-effective methods are needed to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. This project will develop technology to convert carbon dioxide into animal feed while simultaneously removing hydrogen sulfide from the environment.
STTR Project
Materials and Power Technologies, LLC
10217 E. Calle Costa Del
Sol
Microstructures
Research Institution: University of Arizona
Remote wireless sensors need electrical power sources more capable than batteries. This project will develop microstructures that use temperature differentials to generate electricity.
STTR Project
MER Corporation (Materials and
Electrochemical Research)
Temperature Shape Memory Alloys for
Research
Institution: University
of
This project will fabricate materials to build heat engines that convert low-grade waste heat from industrial operations into usable mechanical work and storable energy.
MER Corporation (Materials and
Energy Efficient Membrane Reactor
Electrochemical Research)
for Fuel Reforming
Novel technology and design result in improved energy efficiency as well as reduced weight and volume of a fuel reformer for production of hydrogen.
MER Corporation (Materials and
Novel Heat Exchangers with
Electrochemical Research)
Enhanced Surface
7960
South Kolb Road
Tucson,
Novel technology and design enables production of very compact and highly-efficient heat exchangers. As a result, overall size, weight, and cost of thermal management devices will be significantly reduced.
STTR Project
Adelphi Technology, Inc.
High
Brightness Neutron Source for
981-B Industrial Road
Radiography
Research
Institution: Lawrence
Berkeley
National Laboratory
The proposed radiographic imaging system will increase the safety, reliability, and efficiency of nuclear power plants and other industrial facilities. Imaging inside of thick steel, lead or even uranium for the detection of voids, corrosion and cracks will be possible.
STTR Project
Aerosol Dynamics, Inc.
A Compact, In-Situ Instrument for
2329 Fourth Street
Organic Acids
Research Institution: Colorado
State
University
New techniques are needed for characterization of organic compounds in ambient atmospheric aerosols in order to investigate their sources and environmental affects. This project will develop a new automated in-situ instrument for one set of these compounds, the carboxylic acids.
Alameda
Applied
Sciences Corporation
Coaxial Energetic Ion Depostition of
Suite 230
Copper RF Cavities for Particle
This project will develop technology to enhance high-energy particle accelerators used in fundamental physics research. The enhanced accelerators will achieve higher energy at lower cost than present designs.
STTR Project
2235 Polvorosa Avenue
Heavy Ion Fusion
Research Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ions are pulled from molten metal by means of applied high voltage and acceleration. This process provides only a small number of ions per emission site, but they have extremely low fluctuation. Through the use of nanotechnology, the number of emissions will be increased, while low fluctuation is retained, to obtain a high current beam over a small area. The application of this technique will provide highly defined ion beams for heavy ion fusion.
Altex Technologies Corporation
Compact Heat Exchanger for
650
Nuttman Street
Micro-Turbine-Based Cooling,
Suite
114
Heating, and Power
Santa
Clara, CA 95054-2620
Implementation of fuel efficient combined heat and power systems is constrained by the size, weight, and cost of hot water heat exchangers. The development of the proposed Compact Heat Exchanger will reduce hot water heat exchangers to the size, weight, and cost needed for extensive application of Combined Heat and Power systems to institutional, commercial, and residential markets.
Amonix, Inc.
A High Efficiency PV to Hydrogen
3425 Fujita Street
Energy System
Torrance,
CA 90505-4018
This project will utilize clean solar power to generate hydrogen resulting in a cost-effective, efficient, ecologically-sound integrated system.
STTR Project
Benemann Associates
High Rate and Yield Hydrogen
This project will use biotechnology to develop bacterial fermentations from sugars, starches and other biomass resources. The bacterial fermentations should overcome current limitations of yields and rates, and produce renewable, zero-pollution hydrogen at costs competitive with hydrogen from fossil fuels.
Broadata Communications, Inc.
Ultra-High-Speed Optical Data
2545 West
237th Street
Packet
Switching
Suite K
This project will develop an ultra-high-speed network processor platform based upon patented technology enabling dramatically increased transmission speeds. Applications include ultra-high-speed optical data packet switching.
Calabazas Creek Research
Development of a 200 MHz,
Calabazas
Calabazas Creek Research
Improved Magnetron Injection Guns This project will reduce or eliminate performance
degradation in high power gyrotons and gyroklystrons caused by non-uniform
emission from electron guns. Maintenance
of performance levels will reduce costs and risk, and enable gyroton and
gyroklystron use in fusion research, high energy accelerators, defense
applications, and industrial heating systems.
Enerftech Corporation
Waste-Heat Driven Micro-Steam
1929
California Street
Cycle (MSC) Scroll Turbine System
20937
Comer Drive
Multiple
Beam Klystron
Saratoga, CA
This project will develop technology to provide support,
having increased efficiency and reduced size and cost, for proton drift tube
linacs used in high energy accelerators and colliders.
The technology will lead to reduced linac cost and improved performance.
20937
Comer Drive
an
Inverted Magnetron Injection Gun
Saratoga, CA
This project will develop an advanced microwave amplifier
for use in high-energy accelerators. The
concepts will also be useful in amplifiers for fusion, radar, and scientific
instrumentation.
20937 Comer
Drive
for Gyrotrons
Saratoga, CA 95070-3753
This project will develop a water-based, scroll-turbine technology to reduce the cost of converting low-temperature waste heat into power. Environmental benefits include the elimination of organic fluids, which can be toxic and flammable, and are associated with ozone depletion and global warming.
Expert Microsystems, Inc.
Adaptive On-Line Monitoring for
This project will develop software to determine automatically whether signals from a nuclear power plant (or any industrial process) indicate a future equipment problem. Early detection of equipment problems will prevent unplanned shutdowns and efficiency reductions due to unexpected process failures, and, in turn, will increase production, reduce operating costs, and improve safety.
FAR-TECH, Inc. Efficient 3D Plasma Ion Source
10350
Science Center Drive
Modeling with Adaptive Mesh
Building 14,
San Diego, CA 92121-1129
This project will develop an efficient, 3D computer
simulation program for plasma ion sources that are needed for fusion energy
research. By eliminating much trial
and error, the program should realize large cost savings, and find application
in National and commercial projects that require plasma-based ion sources, such
as ion plasma implantation.
FAR-TECH, Inc.
High Precision Integrated
10350
Science Center Drive
Beam-Position, Emittance, and
Building 14, Suite
150 Third-Moment Monitor
San Diego,
This project will develop a system of instruments for
monitoring the beam in accelerators used in research and medicine.
The system would permit more precise and cost-effective control of
accelerators for applications ranging from high-energy physics to cancer
treatment.
FAR-TECH, Inc.
Optimization of
Building 14, Suite
150
Charge-Breeder Ions
This project will produce a comprehensive set of numerical simulation tools for optimizing sources of radioactive ions. Optimizing these radioactive ion sources should lead to enhanced ion characterization and optimization, efforts that are important for nuclear physics studies and commercial applications, such as advanced materials processing.
Farasis Energy, Inc.
Novel, High Energy Density
851 W. Midway Avenue
Intermetallic Anode Material for
This project will develop a class of high energy density, lithium-ion-battery anode material. This material could lead to rechargeable batteries with twice the current run time of commercially available cells.
Farasis Energy, Inc.
Novel, Redox Stabilized Li-Ion
851 W. Midway
Avenue
Rechargeable Cell
This project will develop a low-cost safety protection system for Li-ion cells. The safety protection system should enable the introduction of large, multi-cell packs required in the growing environmental technologies industry.
Fermionics Corporation
CdZnTe Detector Advancement
This project will develop technology to enhance the understanding of cadmium-zinc-telluride, the material of choice for producing state-of-the-art, room-temperature gamma-ray detectors and arrays. These detectors and arrays should find use in medical applications, non-proliferation, security inspection, and industrial processing control.
STTR Project
First Point Scientific, Inc.
Ion Beam Drift Compression
5330
Derry Avenue
Technology for HCX
Suite J
Agoura
Hills,
Research Institution: Lawrence
This project will lead to the experimental demonstration of
a key element of heavy ion fusion technology, the final compression of the ion
beam for interaction with the fusion target.
Its success will forward efforts to use heavy ion fusion to meet
long-term power needs.
G. H. Gillespie Associates, Inc.
Open Architecture Software
P.O. Box
2961
Integration System for Particle Beam
Del
Mar, CA
92014-5961
Optics
This project will develop advanced software tools to
improve the productivity of workers in organizations using particle beams, such
as, research laboratories, medical institutes, semiconductor manufacturers, and
nano-technology centers.
Gamma Medica, Inc.
Cervical Spect Camera for
The new camera proposed has tremendous potential to facilitate minimally invasive surgeries with the attending benefits as well as to limit the need for follow-up surgeries. This translates into reduced time, complexity and costs that today’s procedures (bilateral neck exploration) are currently accruing.
Gener8, Inc.
High Throughput Fermentation and
Building 4L
This project will develop a microreactor system that will have broad application in microbial physiology, cell culture research, process research, and more specifically, fermentation development. The microreactor system will impact diverse industries ranging from pharmaceutical development to bioremediation of toxic waste.
Genomatica, Inc.
Computational Platform for Flux
5405 Morehouse Drive
Analysis Using
13C-Label Tracing
Suite
210
This project will establish a software platform for developing computer models that simulate bacterial metabolism. These models should improve our understanding of energy-related biological processes and enable their use to address issues of energy production, carbon fixation, and bioremediation.
Haimson Research Corporation
Development
of a High Efficiency
Haimson Research Corporation
Development of a High Gain, High
HyPerComp, Inc.
Development of a Canonical
Hyper-Therm High-Temperature
Ceramic Composite Fuel
Composites, Inc.
Encapsulation in High
Efficiency,
Unit B
Advanced nuclear technologies present the only low cost
method for clean power generation. Technologies
must be developed to improve safety and nuclear proliferation resistance of
conceived future reactor designs utilizing materials that reduce the high level
waste generated.
InnoSense, LLC
Long-Term, Autonomous Measurement
25970 Eshelman
Avenue
of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using
Lomita, CA 90717-3223
an Ormosil
Nanocomposite-Based
This project will develop a robust sensor for monitoring
carbon sequestration activities at an affordable cost.
Kent Sea Tech Corp
Large-Scale Microalgae Cultivation
3350
Scott Boulevard
Output
Circuit for a Spatial
Building 60
Modulation High Power Microwave
Santa
Clara,
The successful development of a high-efficiency, high-power
microwave amplifier capable of operating at short wavelengths would represent a
significant advance in radio frequency source technology, and would have a
positive impact on linear collider construction and operating budgets.
3350
Scott Boulevard
Power
Traveling Wave Relativistic
Building 60
Klystron
Santa
Clara,
CA
This
project strives to achieve two orders of magnitude reduction of the input power
to a high power klystron amplifier, without loss of stability or efficiency
(output power). This would represent a significant advance in radio frequency
source technology and would have a positive impact on linear collider
construction and operation budgets.
31255
Cedar Valley Drive
Approach to Liquid Metal MHD
Suite
327 Computations and Experiments
Westlake,
HyPerComp
is developing a pioneering liquid metal MHD code environment which has already
attracted significant interest in the nuclear fusion community in the design of
liquid metal heat transfer concepts.
Gas Abatement
This project will develop biological processes to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere while recycling agricultural waste products that negatively impact the environment.
LS Technologies, Inc.
Discovery of Dense Ce Activated
Medical detectors need to be highly efficient, and have high resolution, fast speed of response, and low cost. This project will search for the best medical detector scintillator that meets all of these needs.
MacroMetalics, Division of Elcon
Development
and Testing of a
1009
Timothy Drive
Demountable Sheet Electron Beam
San Jose,
This project will develop a beam analyzer to enhance the
performance of particle colliders used in high energy physics.
Makel Engineering, Incorporated High Temperature Electronic Nose
1585
Marauder Street
Chico, CA 95973
A high-temperature microsensor system will allow improved efficiency and pollution control for industrial boilers and gas turbine power generators. This technology can be transferred to aircraft and automobilie engines, among others, to reduce energy requirements (and dependence on foreign oil) and significantly reduce pollution.
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc
Bioethanol Production with
This project will develop membrane technology for a low-cost process to convert small, fermentable biomass streams into ethanol.
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
Hydrogen Recovery and Carbon
This project will develop a cost-effective membrane process to lower the cost of hydrogen production and separate carbon dioxide, a production byproduct, for sequestration. The process should enhance the use of hydrogen as an environmentally friendly fuel.
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
Separation of Carbon Dioxide from
Carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants contribute to global warming. This project will develop technology to remove carbon dioxide from power plant flue gas for sequestration.
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
Stable Membranes for Separating
1360
Willow Road
Hydrogen Containing Petrochemical
Many low-pressure hydrogen containing refinery and petrochemical streams are good candidates for separation by membranes. However, membranes have not been used for these applications because hydrocarbons in the gas stream plasticize the membranes, resulting in collapse and failure. This project will develop membranes to allow low-pressure mixtures that contain low concentrations of hydrogen to be economically separated by membranes for the first time.
MetroLaser, Inc.
Optical Instrument to Measure Cloud
This project will develop technology to measure large cloud drops that exist in low concentration, but have significant influence on cloud radiative properties. The instrument will measure the size of cloud droplets in all practical concentrations.
Nanosys, Inc.
High Efficiency Nanocomposite
2625
This project will develop a revolutionary technology based on engineered nanomaterials to produce high-quality, high-efficiency, and low-cost general illumination. If successful it will offer substantial savings in energy consumption, reduced pollution, and the creation of a new lighting industry.
NovaWave Technologies, Inc.
Compact, Low Cost CO2 Isotope
230A Twin
Dolphin Drive
Ratiometer
This project will investigate a low cost, rugged instrument to monitor carbon dioxide levels with high precision and accuracy. Such hardware is essential for establishing and enforcing worldwide emission standards, and for obtaining a greater understanding of global warming and climate change.
NovaWave
Technologies, Inc.
Ultra-Sensitive, Compact
230A
Twin
Dolphin Drive
Mid-Infrared Spectrometer for
Atmospheric Monitoring
This project will develop an instrument to make highly sensitive atmospheric concentration measurements of a variety of important chemical species, including formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, ethylene, and acetylene. These measurements will impact our understanding of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, and have numerous applications in pollution monitoring and control.
Open Solutions GP
Grid Network Session Processing
Current data transport technology cannot match the
performance of rapidly-growing network capacity planned for
scientific applications. This
project provides an enabling technology to transport, retrieve, and store data
at Grid network speeds equal to or exceeding 10 Gb/s.
OptiSwitch Technology Corporation
Light Activated Solid-State Switch
STTR
Project
Pacific Fuel Cell Corp
Research Institution: University
of
Conventional polymer electrolyte fuel cells cannot work at
elevated temperatures, because resulting dehydration will cause their membranes
to fail. This project will develop a
nanomaterial-based composite membrane, which can retain high proton conductivity
and mechanical strength at elevated temperatures, for enhanced power output.
Particle Beam Lasers, Inc.
Feasibility Study of a Compact
Pentum Group, Inc.
SAMTP (SONET Application
111 W. El Camino Real, #109
Memory Transport)
This project will develop a new data transfer protocol to
provide low cost, higher speed, and interactive networking between computers
connected through existing long-distance fiber optic links.
The public will benefit through improved quality of video conferencing,
technology collaborations, scientific and engineering simulations, computer
gaming and more efficient use of the telecommunications infrastructure.
Physical Optics,
Hybrid Multianode Photomultiplier
Photonic Systems Division
Tube
Building 100
This project will develop a multi-channel light detector
for particle accelerations. The
inexpensive detector will be highly sensitive and reliable, and have low
crosstalk between channels, which is important in high energy physics. Besides
nuclear physics, the detector can be used in nuclear medical imaging and in
military imaging ladars.
Physical Optics Corporation,
Real-Time Holographic
Electro-Optics & Holography Division
Water-Drop-Size Measurement
20600 Gramercy Place
System
Building 100
6355
Nancy Ridge Drive
for
Hydrogen Thyratron
San Diego,
Highly-reliable, cost effective and compact switches are
not available for many high power systems in use by the Department of Energy and
Department of Defense. This project
will lead to the development of a high-power, highly-reliable and cost-effective
switch that is triggered by a semiconductor laser.
Once developed, this switch will allow for the commercialization of many
high power systems that are hindered by unreliable and costly switches.
18925
Dearborn Street
Gas-Filled Storage Ring for 6-D
Northridge,
This project
will develop a compact, magnetic particle storage ring, filled with compressed
gas, for the cooling of muon and ion beams.
The storage ring should find use at national accelerator sites and
commercial ion laser facilities.
Drop size distribution and concentration in stratus clouds, which cover much of the earth, have a strong impact on global warming. This project will develop a new system, deployed on research aircraft and tethered balloons, or on the ground, to improve stratus cloud monitoring. Benefits include improved fuel efficiency and more efficient commercial irrigation systems.
Radia Technologies
An Inexpensive High-Current
15547
Horseshoe Street
Betatron
Using Fixed-Field
Moreno
Valley,
New Low-Loss Magnetic Materials
This project will use modern advances in physics and
engineering to make a high-power, high-energy electron source, which is compact
and inexpensive, for mail sterilization, cancer treatment, medical device
sterilization and food irradiation.
S-Cal Research Corporation
Thermal Recovery of
Permafrost Melting around Multi-
Branch Wells
The additional facilities required on the Alaskan North Slope will provide good jobs for their planning, installation and operation over a period of several decades. The increase in oil production will provide royalties and taxes to Alaska and extend the life of the TAPS line.
Scientific Solutions
Improved ECR Charge Breeder for
This project will develop an improved device for converting sputtered ion species into beam ions for nuclear physics research.
Seacoast Science, Inc.
A New Low-Power MEMS Sensor
This project will develop a sensor system based on novel MEMS technology that will remotely measure atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions from man-made and natural sources must be monitored for accurate prediction of global climate change.
Seacoast Science, Inc. Badge-Sized Sensor System with
2410 La
Macarena Avenue
Integrated Chemicapacitive
Algorithm for Chemical
Identification
This project will develop a sensor system based on novel Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems technology that will identify fuels and other chemical mixtures used in process industries. Industrial chemical mixtures must be monitored for efficient processing and cost-effective waste management.
Taxon Biosciences, Inc.
SARD: A Novel Surveying Method
This project will develop technology for characterizing complex microbial populations to gain insight into the microbial world. Commercial applications include petroleum and mineral exploration, pollutant detection, and clinical diagnostics.
TelASIC Communications, Inc.
Development of a High Performance
This project will develop a radar system component for high performance, digital-to-analog conversion. The component should find application in sensor/data collection systems for detecting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and in the wireless commercial market.
Ultramet
Metallic Foam-Based Membranes
12173
Montague Street
for Hydrogen Separation/Purification
This project will develop a hydrogen separation membrane that will reduce the cost of high-purity hydrogen used in chemical process industries as well as industries related to semiconductors, aerospace propulsion, and metal heat treatment.
Vivaray Solutions, Inc.
Wavelength Tunable (700 to 850nm)
389 Kincora Court
Mode-Locked Lasers, with Pulse
GHZ, and Average Output Power
Greater Than 10W
This project will develop a laser that is tunable at high powers. Applications include medicine, industry, and the armed forces.
Wavefront Technology, Inc.
Nanocomposite Polymers for Smart
Nanocomposite
polymers are being investigated which have very unique attributes to save
energy, reduce atmospheric pollutants, when used to implement new types of
solar and daylight control films for commercial, industrial and residential
buildings.
X-Ray Instrumentation Associates
Low-Level Radioactive Xenon
Nuclear weapons tests, even underground, release radioactive xenon gas into the atmosphere. This project will develop an instrument to improve the detection of xenon and increase the likelihood that clandestine weapons will be discovered before they become a significant threat to the Nation.
STTR Project
X-Ray Instrumentation Associates
Multiple-Input Data Acquisition
8450 Central Avenue
System
(MIDAS) for Measuring the
Neutron Scattering
Research Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
The continued emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by human and natural sources has been a growing cause for concern over the last decade. The proposed device will aid scientists by gathering data on how much CO2 is actually stored in the soil and removed from the atmosphere.
X-Ray Instrumentation Associates
Ultra-Low Background Alpha
8450 Central Avenue
Activity Counter
This project will use digital signal processing techniques to increase the sensitivity of alpha particle detectors 1000 times. These detectors will be used to characterize new, ultra-low, alpha-particle-emitting materials for use in applications that are disrupted by alpha particles from natural radioactivity, such as sensitive nuclear physics measurements and the operation of high density digital electronics chips.
XCom Wireless, Inc.
Compact, Low-Cost, Phased Array
2815 Junipero Avenue
Antennas for Unmanned Air
Years of congressional funding for advanced research into radio-frequency circuitry have enabled the development of powerful radar systems that can track people and vehicles from air and space platforms. This program allows these radar systems to be miniaturized and mounted on unmanned air vehicles for low-cost, effective, and safe remote surveillance that protects our armed forces as well as our National Security interests.
Xradia, Inc.
High Resolution 3D X-Ray
4075 Sprig Drive
Tomography for Inspection of Solid
Extensive research efforts are required to drive down the cost, and increase the reliability of solid oxide fuel cells for widespread use as an alternative energy technology. To solve the problems associated with the development and production of solid oxide fuel cells, a unique 3D x-ray inspection tool is proposed which will be capable of characterizing solid oxide fuel cell components for use in model validation and failure analysis.
ZN Technology, Inc
High Efficiency ZnO-Based LEDs
This project will investigate fabricating white light light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for general illumination from a new material system based on zinc oxide. This material system has the potential for higher efficiency and lower cost than the currently produced white light LEDs.
ADA Technologies, Inc.
Use of Amended Silicates for
8100 Shaffer Parkway
Multi-Pollutant Control in Gasifiers
Coal gasification shows great promise as a technology to decrease U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources. The proposed project will develop a cost-effective means for pollution control in gasifier systems, making coal gasification more attractive and cost competitive for generation of electricity in the U.S.
Barber-Nichols, Inc.
Conversion of Low-Temperature
6325 W. 55th Avenue
Waste Heat to Electric Power
Low temperature heat as a by-product of industrial processes is wasted, as it is currently dispersed into the atmosphere. This project will develop a maintenance-free turbine-generator that can be used to produce cost-effective electric power from these low-temperature heat sources.
Composite Technology Development, Inc.
Innovative, Low Cost
Eltron Research, Inc.
Auto-Thermal Reforming Catalysts
2600
Campus Drive
Radiation-Resistant Fusion Magnet
Suite D
Insulation
Lafayette,
This project will develop high temperature,
radiation-resistant insulation systems for fusion and superconducting magnets.
The insulation systems should enable the design of more efficient fusion
devices, and ultimately lead to the development of new, efficient energy sources
for the Nation.
This project will provide a more environmentally friendly and less expensive way to convert natural gas into hydrogen on an industrial scale.
Eltron Research, Inc.
Catalytic Membrane Reactors: Next
This project is focused on developing the next generation of mixed ion/electron conducting membranes for use in catalytic membrane reactors. The ability of the membrane reactor to simultaneously separate oxygen from air and partially oxidize methane, will reduce reforming costs by up to 40%.
Eltron Research, Inc.
Functionally Graded Aluminum
This project will develop clean technology to produce aluminum nitride/aluminum oxide coatings. These coatings will enable high-temperature corrosion resistance for steel and other alloys.
Eltron Research, Inc.
Microscale Voltammetric Mercury
This project will develop a low-cost, portable, heavy metal detection technology to enable efficient, rapid analysis of metal contamination in water. The technology should find use in government and private sector applications.
Eltron Research, Inc.
Optimization of Metal Alloy for
Successful completion of this project will lead to the identification of a low-cost metal alloy that can be used to fabricate robust hydrogen transport membranes. Implementing such membrane technology will result in tremendous cost reduction for hydrogen production from fossil fuels, natural gas, biomass wastes and other feed stocks thus significantly impacting the hydrogen economy.
Eltron Research, Inc.
Robust Membrane Reactor for
This project will develop a robust, low-cost, efficient membrane reactor to extract hydrogen from industrial feedstocks. The reactor should reduce the cost of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels and other feedstock.
STTR Project
Frontline Bioenergy
Development of an
Electrochemical Process
1566 Cedarwood Drive
for High Efficiency CO2
Separation
Longmont,
Research Institution: University
of Colorado
Boulder
The use of coal, an important long-term domestic energy
resource, will eventually necessitate some form of carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions control technology. Current
CO2 separation approaches to emissions control rely on pressure or
temperature swings that are energy-intensive.
Our project will develop an alternate electrochemical process (as in a
fuel cell) that should dramatically reduce energy requirements for separation,
concentration, and compression of CO2 released fossil-fuel power
plants.
STTR Project
Hazen Research, Inc.
A Continuous Magnetic-Field
4601Indiana Street
Reactor for Scavenging
Metals from
Many wastewater streams contain heavy metals that bioaccumulate and produce detrimental biochemical effects in living organisms. The applicants plan is to develop a new technology that will potentially provide an efficient and cost-effective means for scavenging metals from such streams and concentrating them in forms that are suited to recycling.
STTR Project
ITN Energy Systems, Inc.
Research Institution: University of Colorado
This project will develop cost-effective separation technology to recover chemicals and fuels from biomass. In contrast with energy-intensive and expensive distillation processes in current use, the separation technology should enable biomass products to compete with fossil fuel processing, thereby reducing our reliance on foreign crude oil feedstocks.
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc. Laser Systems Development for the
STTR Project
Lodestar
Research Corporation
Research Insitution: Oak Ridge
National Laboratory This project will develop a numerical model, describing the
interaction of intense radiofrequency waves with the edge of a tokamak fusion
reactor, for the optimization of heating in future burning plasma experiments
such as ITER.
MultiPhase Composites
Moldable Ceramic Composites for
STTR Project
PulseWave, LLC
Use of Pulsewave Technology as a
Research Institution: Western Research Institute The
U.S. contains over one-third of the world’s known oil shale resources, but it is
an undeveloped resource due to high development costs and environmental
problems. This project if successful, will develop a process to remove
the oil component from the shale waste material prior to heat processing. This
would be significant in terms of its potential economic and environmental
benefits.
SPEC, Inc.
A New Instrument for Reliable
This project will develop an instrument to reliably measure
both liquid water content and drop size distribution in stratus clouds, for
validating remote surface-based and space-borne observations of atmospheric
radiation. Commercial applications
include measuring drop size-distribution in industrial, agricultural, and fuel
sprays.
Synkera Technologies, Inc.
Ceramic Microchannel Plates with
Synkera
Technologies, Inc.
Composite Metal-Ceramic Hydrogen
2021
Miller Drive
Separation Membranes
Suite B
Longmont,
CO 80501-6787
4699 Nautilus Court
Unit 205 Photoinjector
Boulder,
This project will develop advanced laser technologies that
are critical for the implementation of new-generation light-source scientific facilities. These facilities will make possible
revolutionary advances in physical, biological, and biomedical research.
The laser technology itself has other science and industrial uses.
1130
Francis Street, #7012
High Field Magnet Applications
Longmont,
This project will develop moldable ceramic insulators to
provide shaped parts that require no complicated machining and reduce insulation
damage leading to costly repair. These
parts should reduce fabrication costs of high field magnets used in particle
accelerators, storage rings, and fusion devices.
2021
Miller Drive
Angular-Biased Channels
Suite B
Longmont, CO
The proposed technology has a potential to overcome the
limitations of the currently used image amplifiers and promote a new generation
of inexpensive radiation detectors and imaging devices with advanced performance
needed in many applications, including counter-terrorism and fundamental
research in high energy and nuclear physics.
This project will develop a relatively low-cost hydrogen separation membrane with high performance, reliability and manufacturability. The membrane will enable energy-efficient production of hydrogen for use as a clean fuel.
TDA Research, Inc.
High Efficiency Conversion of
12345 West 52nd Avenue
Natural Gas to Hydrogen
This project will investigate a high-efficiency, reduced-cost method of converting natural gas to hydrogen while sequestering carbon. The resulting hydrogen should find immediate use in existing applications and long-term use in fuel cells and next-generation vehicles.
TDA Research, Inc.
Lithium Ion-Channel Polymer
12345 West 52nd Avenue
Electrolyte for Lithium Metal Anode
This project will develop an electrolyte material for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. The material should enable manufacturers to increase battery power for use in electric vehicles.
TDA Research, Inc.
Multicontaminant Warm Gas
12345 West 52nd Avenue
Cleanup
TDA Research will investigate a warm gas cleanup technology that removes sulfur and mercury from synthesis gas. The technology will enable coal gasification plants to clean up synthesis gas economically and permit the integration of gasifier technology with fuels and chemicals production and power generation.
STTR Project
TDA Research, Inc.
Thermally Stable Catalysts for
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West 52nd Avenue
Hydrogen Production in
Short Time
Wheat
Ridge, CO
80033-1916
(SCT)
Reactors
This project will develop catalysts that can withstand the very high temperatures of partial oxidation reactors used in the production of hydrogen. Enhanced hydrogen production will lead to its increased availability and use, and a corresponding reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Tech-X Corporation
Advanced 3D Photocathode
Tech-X Corporation
An Abstract Job Handling Grid
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
Service for Dataset Analysis
Suite A
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Modeling
and Simulations
Suite A
Boulder,
This project will develop software to improve modeling and
design of electron sources.
This project will develop software tools to enable remote data access. Remote access of data will allow analysis of large data sets at high-performance computing sites worldwide.
Tech-X Corporation
Distributed CCA Components and
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
Grid Services for Scientific
Suite A
Computing
This project will develop software tools to facilitate
large-scale computer simulations of physical processes in a thermonuclear
reactor.
Tech-X Corporation
FSML-Fusion Simulation Markup
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Language
for Interoperability of
Suite A
Data and Analysis Tools
Boulder,
Tech-X Corporation
Grid4GL: Grid Technologies for the
5621 Arapahoe Avenue
4th Generation Languages
Suite A
This project will develop software tools to merge powerful,
scientific data analysis tools with grid technologies.
Tech-X Corporation
High Performance Algorithm for
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Signal Decomposition in Gamma
Suite A
Ray Detectors
Boulder, CO
80301
This project will develop software to enable the development of high-resolution gamma ray detectors for nuclear physics and nuclear medicine.
Tech-X Corporation
Improving Between-Shot Fusion
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Data
Analysis with Parallel
Suite A
Structures
Boulder,
Tech-X Corporation
Rapid 3-D Simulation of a
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Bunch-Length Diagnostic for Laser
Suite A
Boulder,
Frequencies
Future generation high-energy particle accelerators, used
to study the fundamental nature of matter, will likely include plasma-based
components that produce extremely short particle beams.
Existing software is being enhanced to enable the measurement of these
ultra-short electron beams
Tech-X Corporation
SPECS: Small Particle
Electron
Suite A
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is colliding gold ions to create conditions similar to those that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This project will develop a 3D simulation code to enhance an electron cooling section in this premier facility.
Tech-X Corporation
Tools for Studying Multipactor in
UQM Technologies, Inc.
Power Converters for Diverse
7501 Miller Drive
Applications
5621
Arapahoe Avenue
Dielectric Waveguide Structures
Suite A
Boulder,
This
work will enable researchers to study ways to improve high-power dielectric rf
structures.
This project will develop technology to convert distributed energy resources into efficient, reliable, cost-effective power for enhancing power supplied by the electric grid. The technology should provide environmental and economic benefits to society.
STTR Project
Vescent Photonics
Optical “Nose” for Rapid, Part-Per-
2927 Welton Street
Trillion
Trace Gas Detection
Research Institution: JILA
This project will construct an optically-based, chemical detection system that can detect any gas-phase chemical at concentrations below one part-per-trillion.
STTR Project
Zolo Technologies, Inc.
Demonstration
of Heat Rate Increase
Technology In with Nueral Net
Optimization
Research
Institution: Stanford
This proposal will develop a sensor technology for optimizing coal-fired power generation while reducing harmful pollutant emissions. Anticipated cost savings to the utility industry are on the order of $4 billion/year.
Advanced Fuel Research, Inc.
Carbon Dioxide Recovery from
87 Church Street
Combustion Flue Gas Using
The release of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant greenhouse gas, leads to global warming. This project will develop technology to capture massive amounts of CO2 produced by the combustion of fossil fuels (e.g., coal and natural gas).
Avalence, LLC
High-Efficiency, Ultra-High
1240 Oronoque Road
Pressure Electrolysis with Direct
This project will develop reliable, efficient technology for using renewable power to cost-effectively produce and dispense hydrogen fuel for the coming hydrogen and fuel cell economy.
NanoSciences Corporation
A Compact Fast PMT for TOF PET
This project will develop a high speed photodetector that will enable significant advances in medical imaging in the area of positron emission tomography scanners which are noninvasive techniques that allow us to look inside the body and provide a window on biology in action.
NanoSciences Corporation APD Injected Vacuum
This project will develop a high-speed photodetector to advance the performance of noninvasive PET scanners that permit researchers to look inside the body and observe biology in action. The improved scanner should allow significant advances in medical imaging.
Omega-P, Inc.
120 MW, 800 MHz Magnicon for a
Omega-P, Inc.
High-Power Ferroelectric Switch for
Omega-P, Inc.
Quasi-Optical 3-dB Hybrid for
STTR Project
STTR Project
Omega-P, Inc.
Research Institution: University
This project will develop thin-film coatings on high-power
microwave components for a future high-energy particle accelerator.
Microwave components that are coated should operate at higher power
levels than uncoated components, thus allowing a more compact and less expensive
accelerator to be designed and built.
PMD Scientific, Inc.
High Resolution Seismometer
STTR Project
Tungsten Graphics
Chromium RenderServer: Remote
Woodbury,
Clusters Research
Institution: Lawrence
Livermore
National Laboratory This project will develop a software infrastructure to
provide geographically-distributed scientific researchers access to centrally
located, powerful computer systems dedicated to interactive visual data
analysis.
Compact Membrane Systems, Inc.
Carbon Dioxide Capture from Large
325 Water Street
Point Sources
199
Whitney Avenu
Future
Muon Collider
New Haven,
CT
Research at future high-energy physics frontiers will
require accelerators of energy higher than those that can be built using present
technology. This project is to
develop radio frequency amplifiers to be used in a future muon collider, to help
keep U.S. scientists at the forefront of this basic scientific frontier.
199
Whitney Avenue
an
X-Band RF Pulse Compressor
New Haven,
CT
Development of an electrically-controlled, high-power
microwave switch is to be carried out which has the potential for increasing
efficiency and affording new flexibility in design for the next linear collider.
Successful completion of this project would lead to lower construction
and operating costs for this research accelerator.
199
Whitney Avenue
Future
High-Energy Accelerators
New Haven,
This project will develop all-metal, quasi-optical devices
that are capable of performing important functions for control of high-power
microwaves in accelerators and in other high power microwave systems which
cannot be controlled using available technology.
Omega-P, Inc.
RF Gun with High-Current-Density
199
Whitney Avenue
Field
Emission Cathode
New
Haven,
Research Institution: Florida
International
This project will develop a rugged, high-current cathode to
replace fragile cathodes of limited lifetime in a wide range of vacuum
electronics devices. Benefits
include saving cathode heater power and increasing device lifetime.
105F
Bloomfield, CT
06002
This project will develop a very sensitive seismic sensor
based on unique technology, and be capable of working in very strong magnetic
fields, and will help to achieve a sub-nanometer stability of the final focusing
lenses in the Linear Collider. Future
models will have public benefit advancing knowledge of earthquake and structural
behavior.
Removal of carbon dioxide from large point source gas streams in an economic manner will reduce the cost of power generation. This project will remove these gases in a compact, efficient and economic way.
STTR Project
Elsicon, Inc.
Research Institution: University of Delaware
This project will develop a miniature device that uses properties of light to generate essential information needed for guidance, navigation, and control in both military and commercial settings. The device will be batch-manufactured, using microelectronic tools and techniques along with conventional materials, for high-volume, low-cost availability.
STTR Project
Advanced Magnet Laboratory, Inc.
2730 Kirby Avenue, NE
Arrays for Multiple Beam
Transport
Building 5
Research Insitution: Lawrence
Livermore
National Laboratory
This proposal will develop affordable superconducting magnets that are needed for inertial fusion power production. Implementation of this technology will enhance our standard of living, the quality of our environment, and national security.
Constellation Technology Corporation
Purification System
for Large
7887
Bryan Dairy Road
Quantities of Noble Gas
Suite
100
Largo, FL
33777-1498
Storage and manipulation of very large amounts of data in high-energy physics experiments and in large companies, is negatively affected by performance problems with the software involved. Targeted experiments and subsequent performance enhancements will resolve these problems ensuring that the existing infrastructures will be able to sustain the needs of all users.
Mainstream Engineering Corporation
Demonstration of a Low-Pressure
200 Yellow Place
Water Turbine for Low-Temperature
This project will develop a commercially viable, environmentally friendly system to recover low-temperature waste heat and produce power. Power generation efficiency should increase by 20-30% and result in a payback period of 2-3 years.
Quantum Technology Services, Inc.
RASA Prognostics from State of
This project will develop an operational system to predict an impending failure of specific components on deployed Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler/Analyzer units. By decreasing the length of shutdown for repairs, this approach enables better network capability at a reduced cost.
SeaAg, Inc.
Microalgae Biofixation of CO2 and
705 27th Avenue, SW
Fertilizer Production for Greenhouse
Microalgae are microscopic plants grown in sea and fresh-waters and are currently used for the production of human foods and animal feeds and also in wastewater treatment. This project will use microalgae cultures for the co-production of biofuels with fertilizers for agriculture, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Supergenics, LLC
Improved Fin Designs to Reduce
nGimat
Company
Anode Electrolyte Nanocomposites
5315
Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
as Alternative to Carbonaceous
1233 Tree
Bay Lane
Deffective in Internal-Tin Nb3Sn
Sarasota,
In order to maintain the nation’s technical leadership in
high energy physics it is necessary to have an active part in the development
and construction of the future generation of particle accelerators.
To do this, high field superconducting magnets are required and this
project is designed to make high quality conductors at relatively low cost to be
used in these magnets. Similar
conductors can also be used in fusion devices that will be one of the long-term
answers to the global energy problems.
This project will develop technology to improve the output and cycle life of batteries. These improved batteries should lead to more widespread use of hybrid electric vehicles.
STTR Project A hydrogen-powered energy system has been proposed for the
enabling of a green energy economy. Production,
storage, distribution, and application of hydrogen are the main challenges for
hydrogen-based technology. This STTR
project will develop a simplified, more energy-cost-effective method for
hydrogen production.
nGimat Company
Cycled Hydrogen
Production
5315 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
From Natural Gas Using Novel Oxides
Atlanta,
Research
Institution: Georgia Institute of
Technology
nGimat
Company
Self-Cleaning Surfaces with
5315 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Morphology Mimicking
This project will develop materials with self-cleaning surfaces, removing the need for scrubbing, washing and polishing. Self-cleaning glass surfaces will enable higher energy efficiency in solar cells, and simplify design of components used in automotive and architectural applications.
PhosphorTech Corporation
High Extraction Luminescent
This project will discover high-extraction phosphors that increase the efficiency of solid state lighting devices. These new lamps will revolutionize lighting and provide the United States industry with competitive technologies that will significantly reduce global energy use and environmental pollution.
FiveSight Technologies, Inc. An Analysis Process Execution
213 North
Morgan Street
Language and Execution Engine for
Chicago, IL
60607
High
Energy Physics
This project will develop technology for scientific process
management by combining research in the fields of business process management,
Web services, and distributed Grid computing.
I. C. Gomes Consulting and
Development of a Methodology for
Investment, Inc.
Analyzing Performance and
1728 Killdeer Drive
Radiological Impact of Strippers and
The heavy ions interactions with magnets, strippers, collimators, fragmentation targets, and mass separators have important impact on the design of a facility such as Rare Isotope Accelerator. This project is for implementing charged particle transport in electromagnetic field into the MCNPX Monte Carlo transport code. This implementation will allow heavy charged particle transport in both, material medium and in electromagnetic field. The final product has direct application to RIA (Rare Isotope Accelerator) design and also in the medical and aerospace areas.
MUONS, Inc.
Gaseous H2 Absorber for
Muon
STTR Project
MUONS, Inc.
Ionization Cooling Using Parametric
STTR Project
NPL Associates, Inc.
A Dipole Assisted
IEC Neutron Source
Research Insitution: Board of Trustees of the University
of Illinois
Electrostatic fusion confinement suffers from low
efficiencies and short particle confinement times.
A new hybrid plasma confinement concept is proposed that may be developed
as a commercial neutron source and an enhancement of electrostatic reactors.
STTR Project
NPL Associates, Inc.
Research
Institution: University of Illinois
This project will develop a subroutine for a large-scale
plasma (LSP) computer code to calculate the charge exchange and ion stripping
cross sections in heavy ion beam (HIB) transport.
This work is done by data mining from experimental data, handbooks and
calculation results, and further numerical calculations for unsolved data.
Numerica 21 Incorporated
A Net-Aware Development, Support,
Suite 220
DOE Numerical Libraries
The project will develop the requirements and tools for
a national repository of numerical software, a critical component of effective
scientific computer simulations. Project
focus will be long-term maintenance and support of high-quality software whose
development is funded by various government programs.
Optonet, Inc.
100Gb/s-1Tb/s Data
Communications,
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Beam
Cooling
Batavia,
New particle accelerators, needed to study the fundamental
forces of nature, require a technique to shrink muon beams before acceleration.
This project will develop dense hydrogen gas to reduce the beam size and
lower costs.
MUONS, Inc.
Hydrogen Cryostat for Muon Beam
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Cooling
Batavia,
Research Institution: Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
This project will develop technology to shrink muon beams
in accelerators needed to study the fundamental forces of nature.
The technology will take advantage of the latest advances in
high-temperature superconducting magnets and pressurized high-gradient RF
cavities.
552 N.
Batavia Avenue
Resonances
Batavia,
This project will combine two previously unrelated
accelerator techniques to enable an affordable muon collider at the energy
frontier.