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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,
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.