DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
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SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM
FY 2007 PHASE II AWARDS BY TOPIC
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
Plasma Processes, Inc. Tungsten Alloy Divertor Concept with
4914 Moores Mill Road Helium Jet Cooling
Huntsville, AL 35811
Fusion energy offers the potential reduction of U.S. dependency on fossil fuels. This project will provide a reliable, effective system of removing heat from tokamaks, i.e., containment vessels used in fusion power plants.
4541 East Fort Lowell Road Fluorescence Detection for Beryllium
Tucson, AZ 85712-1108 Particulates
This project will develop and demonstrate an automated, low cost, high sensitivity beryllium particle detection system to improve work place safety.
STTR Project
Burge Environmental, Inc. Research Institute:
6100 South Maple Avenue Battelle Memorial Institute
Suite 114
Tempe, AZ 85283-2872
Project: In-Situ Analytical System for Remote Determination of 90Sr Flux Through the Aquifer
This project will develop a field-deployable monitoring system for cost-effective and rapid characterization of radioactive substances in the groundwater at federal sites, such as the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State . The development of this system should decrease future costs of site remediation within and beyond the DOE complex.
STTR Project
3DGeo Development, Inc. Research Institute:
4633 Old Ironsides Drive Stanford University
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1846
Project: An Interdisciplinary Software Environment for Earth Sciences
The integration of computational tasks addressed in this high-performance computing project will vastly improve efficiency in the oil and gas industry. It will facilitate asset management, reduce development costs, increase national oil reserves, and ultimately lessen the environmental impact of oil and gas exploration and production.
Alpha STAR Corporation Development of Real-Time Dynamic
5199 East Pacific Coast Highway Super-Element Partitioning
Suite 410
Long Beach, CA 90804
This effort will produce powerful, affordable software for rapid ultra-large-scale engineering problem analysis. The software should greatly reduce excessive time/costs currently associated with configuration changes and design analyses of automotive and aerospace vehicles. In addition, the final HPC algorithms for an ultra-large scale system of equation solvers should be applicable to a wide range of physics and engineering disciplines.
STTR Project
Calabazas Creek Research, Inc. Research Institute:
690 Port Drive North Carolina State University
San Mateo, CA 94404-1010
Project: Computer Optimized Design of 3D Charged Particle Devices
This program will develop a computer tool for dramatically reducing the design cost of charged-particle devices while significantly increasing performance. It will allow for development of a new generation of 3D charged-particle devices that could not otherwise be designed.
CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group, Inc. Intelligent Control of Advanced
2868 Prospect Park Drive Power Generation Systems Using
Suite 300 Model-Free Adaptive Control
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670-6065 Technology
This project will develop an intelligent control system for boilers in future energy plants that can deliver maximum energy efficiency, fuel flexibility, and near-zero emissions. On a broader scale, this technology could represent a major breakthrough for the combustion industry.
DULY Research Inc. An Ultra-Low-Emittance, L-Band,
1912 Mac Arthur Street Flat-Beam PWT Photoinjector
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-1111
The International Linear Collider (ILC) should enhance the study of the constituents and fundamental laws of matter. This project will develop a polarized electron source, with a high quality beam at a greatly reduced cost, for use in the ILC.
Daylight Solutions, Inc. Tunable Infrared Quantum Cascade
13029 Danielson Street Lasers for Active Electro-Optical
Suite 203 Remote Sensing
Poway, CA 92064-8809
This project will design and build a high power, tunable, mid-infrared laser based on quantum cascade materials. Miniaturized and field-ready, the laser should find application in the detection of airborne chemicals and diagnostic imaging.
Farasis Energy, Inc. Novel, Redox-Stabilized Li-Ion Cell
23575 Cabot Boulevard
Suite 205
Hayward, CA 94545
Large, lithium-ion multi-cell packs require safety protection systems. This project will develop a low-cost safety protection system that is critical for the introduction of multi-cell packs into the growing environmental technologies markets.
FAR-TECH, Inc. Integrated Modeling of ECR Charge
3550 General Atomics Court Breeder Ion Sources
MS 15-155
San Diego, CA 92121
Highly charged ion beams are essential for nuclear physics research and a broad range of industrial applications. This project will develop a numerical tool to reduce the cost of building and operating sources of highly charged ions.
FAR-TECH, Inc. A Kalman Filter for n > 1
3550 General Atomics Court Resistive-Wall-Mode Identification
MS 15-155 and Feedback Control Modeling
San Diego, CA 92121
Resistive Wall Modes (RWM) that are found in Tokomak plasmas are detrimental to plasma stability. Use of a Kalman filter allows for more precise identification of RWMs in Tokamaks and therefore greater control. This project will expand the range of the Kalman filter and stabilize the Resistive Wall Mode so that increased power density can be achieved in plasmas and, moreover, an increased number of fusion reactions can be achieved in future fusion power plants.
Genomatica, Inc. An Experimental/Computational
5405 Morehouse Drive Platform for the Analysis of
Suite 210 Metabolite Profile Data
San Diego, CA 92121
This project will develop a software platform for the development of computer models for simulating bacterial metabolism. These models are valuable tools for improving our understanding of energy-related biological processes, and harnessing the metabolic potential of organisms to address issues of energy production, carbon fixation, and bioremediation.
Haimson Research Corporation A Choppertron RF Source for High
3350 Scott Boulevard Gradient Accelerator Research
Building 60
Santa Clara, CA 95054-3104
This project will develop a short wavelength microwave amplifier capable of operating efficiently at very high power levels. Applications include high-gradient linear accelerator research.
Hi-Z Technology, Inc. High Temperature Quantum Well
7606 Miramar Road Thermoelectric Materials
Suite 7400
San Diego, CA 92126-4210
Huge amounts of waste heat are generated by cars and trucks as well as large industrial plants. This project will convert this renewable heat into electricity, and thereby reduce environmental pollution and consumption of imported fuel by nearly 20%.
STTR Project
Hyper-Therm High-Temperature Research Institute:
Composites, Inc. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
18411 Gothard Street
Unit B
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Project: Life Prediction of SiC/SiC Composites in Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Advanced, high efficiency nuclear reactors operate at high temperatures to produce low cost power for producing hydrogen or generating electricity. This project will develop high-temperature structural material for use within a reactor core at temperature beyond the capability of metals.
InnoSense LLC High-Volume Fabrication of Hydrogen
2531 West 237th Street Sensor Using Intrinsically Safe
Suite 127 Optical Sensor Platform
Torrance, CA 90505
This project will develop a manufacturing technology for high volume production of hydrogen sensors, to address safety concerns related to the hydrogen economy infrastructure.
Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. Laser Ultrasonic Inspection of
2520 W. 237th Street Adhesive Bonds Used in Automotive
Torrance, CA 90505-5217 Body Assembly
There is a need for rapid, nondestructive, effective measurement of adhesive bonds during auto body manufacture. This project will develop a laser beam system for non-invasive inspection of adhesives at a rate that is commensurate with industry needs.
Los Gatos Research Lightweight, High-Precision
67 East Evelyn Avenue Instrument for Balloon Sonde CO2
Suite 3 Measurements
Mountain View, CA 94041
This project will develop a rugged, yet inexpensive instrument to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with unprecedented precision. Small enough for transport onboard balloon sondes, the instrument may be used for detailed studies to determine the sources and sinks of carbon in the environment.
Los Gatos Research Field-Deployable Gas Analyzer for
67 East Evelyn Avenue MMV Applications
Suite 3
Mountain View, CA 94041
This project will develop an ultrasensitive analyzer to help validate and refine current schemes to remove carbon from the atmosphere. This instrument will be critical in determining if sequestered carbon is leaking back into the atmosphere or displacing other, potentially more harmful greenhouse gases.
MATECH Advanced Materials Manufacturing of CMC Combustor
31304 Via Colinas Liners for Gas Turbine Generators
Suite 102
Westlake Village, CA 91362-4586
This project will further develop the manufacturing process for combustion liners in stationary gas turbines used in electricity production and other turbine applications.
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. Bioethanol Production with
1360 Willow Road Mixed-Matrix Membranes
Menlo Park, CA 94025-1524
Bioethanol production is increasing dramatically. This project will develop a new low-energy, low-cost method of separating bioethanol from other fermentation products and components. This separation process should significantly lower the cost of bioethanol production as well as its use as a fuel.
Nanosolar, Inc. Printed Solar Cell Using
2440 Embarcadero Way Nanostructured Ink
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Solar power is currently too expensive to promote widespread adoption and relieve U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources. This project will develop low cost, high efficiency solar cells printed on flexible foil, for a new generation of solar panels that will make solar power competitive with conventional energy sources.
NovaWave Technologies, Inc. Real-Time Infrared Greenhouse Gas
900 Island Drive Sensor
Suite 101
Redwood City, CA 94065-5150
This project will develop compact, low-cost, and highly reliable trace gas sensors. These sensors are required for improving our understanding of global climate change, for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and for a variety of industrial process control applications.
Physical Optics Corporation Early Remote Risk Assessment Survey
20600 Gramercy Place, Building 100 Technology
Torrance, CA 90501-1821
This project will develop a powerful tool for increasing the efficiency and reducing the cost and risk of geologic carbon dioxide sequestration, a nationally legislated option for limiting climate change.
Physical Optics Corporation Dielectrophoretic Extraction of
20600 Gramercy Place, Building 100 Water Enhanced by Nanostructure
Torrance, CA 90501-1821 Technology
This project will develop a dewatering (drying) technology with increased efficiency to replace energy-hungry drying technologies currently used in the production of paper, food, and chemicals. Energy savings could amount to 144 trillion British thermal units per year.
Physical Optics Corporation Highly Efficient Organic
20600 Gramercy Place, Building 100 Light-Emitting Devices for General
Torrance, CA 90501-1821 Illumination
Overall energy efficiency of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) is superior to that of fluorescent lamps. This project will develop flexible OLED substrates for low-cost mass production of these efficient lighting devices, whose use in general illumination could reduce U.S. power costs by as much as 5 billion dollars per year.
Physical Optics Corporation Scalable Nanostructured
20600 Gramercy Place, Building 100 Thermoelectric Generation System for
Torrance, CA 90501-1821 Industrial Waste Heat Recovery
This project will develop a system that uses nanostructured thermoelectric materials for direct heat-to-energy-conversion of industrial waste heat, at 30 cents per watt. Generating electric power with industrial waste heat, should help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy.
Sparktronics, Inc. Short Pulse, Multistage Generator
23765 Madison Street for 200MW RF Sources
Torrance, CA 90505
This project will develop a high voltage power system that will result in radio frequency power systems, reduced in complexity and cost, for the future accelerators of high energy physics research.
XIA, LLC High Rate X-Ray Flourescence
31057 Genstar Road Detector
Hayward, CA 94544
This project will develop a high performance detector by combining high performance electronics with a novel detector module design. This detector should impact both the x-ray research community and the commercial x-ray marketplace, and allow for increased effectiveness of national synchrotron laboratories.
Composite Technology Development, Inc. Wind-and-React Magnet Insulation
2600 Campus Drive with Low Radiation-Induced Outgassing
Suite D
Lafayette, CO 80026
This project will develop ceramic-based electrical insulation for use with superconducing materials requiring thermal treatments at 600° to 700°C. These products should find application in national High Energy Physics programs and commercially in the oil and gas, and nuclear energy markets.
Eltron Research Inc. Novel Supports and Materials for
4600 Nautilus Court South Oxygen Separation and Supply
Boulder, CO 80301-3241
This project will develop a cost-effective method for capturing oxygen for use in coal gasification and related processes with reduced emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc. Laser Systems Development for the
1855 S 57th Court International Linear Collider (ILC)