DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
AND
SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM
FY 2008 PHASE II AWARDS BY TOPIC
TOPIC:
USE OF CELLULOSIC BIOMASS TO PRODUCE BIOFUELS
Edenspace
Systems Corporation Improved, High-Moisture Ensiled
Crop
3810 Concorde Parkway Feedstocks for Cellulosic
Ethanol
This project seeks to reduce the cost of cellulosic ethanol and other renewable fuels by ensiling crops that produce enzymes to reduce downstream processing costs. The project will create new value-added revenue opportunities for agricultural producers and ethanol cooperatives and reduce fuel costs for consumers.
ZuChem,
Inc. Bioprocess for Xylitol from
Suite F
During biofuel ethanol production, by-products rich in sugars are produced and if these
byproducts can be made into a valuable product; the cost-effectiveness of ethanol production will be enhanced. This project will develop a bioprocess which will transform these sugars into xylitol, a sugar polyol that is in high demand by the food ingredient and confectionary industry, therefore improving the economics of ethanol production.
TOPIC:
SOLAR ENERGY
Luminit, LLC Flexible Spectrum
Splitting
This project will develop a laminated holographic film that focuses lightwaves on solar cells to significantly improve the efficiency of existing photovoltaic tech.
Luna Innovations Incorporated High-Throughput
In-Line PV
Photovoltaic technology is predicted to substantially impact the nation’s wealth and economy in 21st century. This project will develop an in-line high-throughput manufacturing diagnostic system capable of fast and accurate identification of the distribution of stress and coating uniformity, allowing improved process control, increased yield, and reduced cost.
SVV Technology Innovations, Inc. High
Performance PV Concentrator
5022 Bailey Loop,
This project will develop and demonstrate a new approach for making inexpensive solar panels for generating electricity. It will make viable the large-scale, distributed energy production from renewables and help meet the national goals of energy independence, reduction of carbon emissions and fostering the job growth and economic progress.
Ultrasonic Technologies, Inc. In-line
Crack Detection in Silicon
27247 Breakers Drive Solar Cell Production Using
Wesley
Millimeter-size cracks in silicon wafers lead to breakage of
solar cells and elevate cost of their manufacturing. The patented Resonance Ultrasonic
Vibration method and system provide fast in-line diagnostics of cracks by
screening cracked wafers and cells during the production cycle.
TOPIC:
HYDROGEN DELIVERY AND PRODUCTION
FuelCell
Energy, Inc. Development of Highly
Efficient
This project focuses on the development of a dual-use highly-efficient, solid-state electrochemical hydrogen compressor to produce high pressure, high purity hydrogen for near-term industrial applications and to meet future hydrogen refueling infrastructure needs.
Mohawk Innovative
Technology, Inc. Advanced
Sealing Technology for
1037 Watervliet-Shaker
Rd Hydrogen Compressors
For the hydrogen economy and energy independence to become a reality, efficient and reliable large-scale compressors are needed to move hydrogen gas from production sites to end user locations. Oil-free, non-contacting seal and bearing technologies are critical to the successful development of these new compressors. These technologies will also have a positive impact on the operating efficiency and life of existing and new pipeline compressor and aircraft gas turbine engine systems.
Physical Optics Corporation Photoelectrochemical System for
This project is for an innovative system that will produce hydrogen for fuel cells and other energy applications by splitting water using photoelectric conversion of solar energy.
Synkera Technologies Inc. Nanotube Array Photoelectrochemical
This project is focused on developing, validating, and commercializing next-generation
nanomaterials that will enable the essentially limitless production of the world’s mostperfect energy source—hydrogen—by splitting water via sunlight. Success in this project will represent a key enabling step on the nation’s critical path toward achieving a “hydrogen economy.”
TOPIC:
WIND ENERGY RELIABILITY AND COST REDUCTION
Native American Technologies
Company Development of Nacelle Assembly
(N. A. Tech. Inc.) Lifting
System (LIFTCAP)
This project is to design the apparatus to place the nacelle, generator, gear box, rotor, and blades on top of an in-situ fabricated, self-erecting tower, without using an external crane. The nacelle placement apparatus and tower sections will have a complete set of sensors and a structural health monitoring system will be used to collect data on the structural behavior. That data will be used to correlate the Finite Element Analysis.
Sentient Corporation Wind Energy Reliability and Cost
850 Energy Drive, Suite 307 Reduction
- Wind Turbine Condition
This project will develop a robust condition monitoring system for commercial wind turbines that will help operators reduce the cost of wind energy.
WebCore
Technologies, Inc. Reducing Cost and Weight of
Wind
Wind energy has potential
to produce 20%+ of
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS
ON PLUG-IN HYBRIDS
STTR Project
Electron Energy Corporation High
Performance Permanent Magnets
This project addresses the high interest in increasing the performance of advanced motors for
more efficient hybrid electric vehicles. This project will develop a new class of permanent magnets used in permanent magnet motors with (1) better magnetic performance at temperatures up to 240oC, (2) higher electrical resistivity to significantly reduce eddy current losses and (3) lower cost.
SBE Inc Low Cost, High
Temperature, High
131 S Main St Ripple Current DC Bus
Capacitors For
There is a need for a reliable, low cost, high temperature capacitor which is a required element of Hybrid Electric Vehicles. This project will expand a unique capacitor design which may enable a successful solution.
TOPIC:
ALTERNATIVE FEEDSTOCKS TO CHEMICALS
Eltron
Research & Development Inc. Aromatics
from Alternative Sources
Coal is
TDA Research, Inc. RFCC Catalysts for Chemical
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More efficient use of
heavy petroleum resources located in the
Technova
Corporation Improved Conversion of
Cellulose
3927 Dobie Road Waste to Ethanol Using a
Dual
Inedible biomass represents
an abundant and low-cost renewable resource that can be transformed into biofuel - a major transportation fuel for
Tethys Research, LLC Industrial Production and
53
Downing Rd Applications of Hemicellulose:
This project will develop processes
to use the enzyme in pulp mills and forest biorefineries
to produce raw materials for chemicals and biofuels.
It also clones the enzyme for cost-effective large-scale production.
TOPIC:
CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND SEPARATION PROCESSES FOR BIO-REFINERY
APPLICATIONS
Aerophase, Inc. Alternative
Reaction/Extraction
Biodiesel is a key component in US plans to reduce dependence on foreign oil and
decrease the environmental impacts of using fossil fuels—but current feedstocks and
production technologies prevent it from being cost-competitive. This project will provide enabling technologies for a costeffective, energy-efficient method of producing biodiesel fuels from a variety of lowercost feedstocks.
EverNu
Technology LLC Nano-scale
High-Surface-Area Thermal
Maple
Oxidation
Catalytic oxidation of low cost and abundant alkanes for the production of many valuable chemicals can
bring to the
Exelus,
Inc. Step-Out
Process to Upgrade Glycerol
This project will develop
a new technology to produce a diesel-fuel blending component from excess
glycerol – a waste product from bio-diesel plants – using existing, idled MTBE
units. The process has the ability to produce an extra 170 million gallons of
diesel per year in the
Membrane Technology and Research, Biobutanol Production with Hybrid
Inc. Membrane-Distillation
Due to economic considerations, biobutanol is not currently produced as a biofuel even though it has clear-cut performance advantages
over bioethanol. This project will develop the biobutanol production process that is both cost and energy
efficient and could compete with petroleum-derived butanol
production.
United Environment & Energy, LLC Intensified Process for
Biodiesel
111 Ridge Road Production
This project will develop a high efficiency, high productivity, and low cost biodiesel production technology to replace the current low efficiency biodiesel production process in the industry. The technical feasibility has been proven and the technology is being scaled up.
TOPIC:
CATALYSIS
STTR Project
Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. High
Temperature Membrane Reactors
This
program is a platform technology to enhance chemical synthesis and also dry
organics including fuel grade ethanol from biomass.
Inorganic
Specialists, Inc. Nanofiber
Paper for Fuel Cells and
965 Capstone Dr, Suite 327 Catalyst Supports
The
high cost of fuel cell catalysts like platinum is a major problem for the fuel
cell industry. This project will demonstrate how existing commercial fuel cell
products can use far less catalyst if they are first modified with a thin layer
of inexpensive carbon nanofibers, using a simple
process.
Precision Combustion, Inc. Novel
System for Solid Catalyzed
This project offers a breakthrough in the manufacture of alkylate, a major component of reformulated gasoline for cleaner combustion. Success will lead to using solid catalysts as an environmentally friendly alternative to current energy-intensive processes based on liquid acids, providing savings in capital, operating costs, energy, and health safety.
TOPIC:
SEPARATION PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANUFACTURING
Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. Dewatering
Membrane for Hazy
335 Water Street Hydrodesulfurization
of Unit
Refinery processes to reduce sulfur in fuels (“hydrodesulfurization”) lead to generation of haze in the fuels. This program will develop technology that will simply and at low cost remove the water haze from fuels.
TDA Research, Inc. Sorbents for Desulfurization of
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Recovery of the energy value of refinery off-gases could save the nation nearly between or nearly $50 to 150 million per year worth of oil at $100/bbl. This project will develop a sorbent-based desulfurization technology that enables the refiners to use off-gases in hydrogen production while recovering their energy value.
TOPIC:
NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE
ENERGY
STTR Project
Illuminex Corporation Silicon Nanowire
Solar Cell
1064 New
This
project will develop a novel solar cell device for efficient conversion of
sunlight into usable electrical energy through the application of
nanotechnology. This effort will contribute to the development of alternative
energy sources and help relieve the burden imposed by the continuing use of
foreign oil and other detrimental energy sources.
Luna Innovations Incorporated Carbon
Nanosheets as Nanostructured
This project will develop a
better flexible solar cell. Using nanotechnology, a new type of efficient solar cell
will be developed that will be flexible enough to wrap around consumer and
field-portable electronics, while also being less toxic
and more robust than traditional approaches to flexible solar cells.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGY
STTR Project
Advanced Thermal and Environmental A Nanofluid with
Concepts, Inc. Thermal
Properties
This project will develop a nanofluid that will enhance heat transfer in industrial equipment, such that the size of the equipment and the energy required to operate the equipment can be reduced.
STTR Project
Aegis Technology Inc. High-Efficiency, Cost-Effective
Waste Heat Recovery
The proposed project will develop an innovative low-cost
scalable approach that can be used to produce a novel class of high-ZT
thermoelectric nanocomposites; and build/characterize
high-efficiency, cost-effective TE devices that can be applied for industrial
process refrigeration and waste heat recovery.
Altex
Technologies Corporation Low Cost Microchannel
Heat
244 Sobrante
Way Exchangers
This project will develop compact, lightweight and low cost microchannel heat exchangers that will facilitate and reduce costs for many industrial processes, which currently rely on large and heavy heat exchangers.
MER Corporation (Materials and Microchannel
Magnetic Coolers with
Electrochemical Research) Negative
Magnetocaloric Effect
A combination of novel magnetocaloric materials, novel design and novel technology
will lead to the development of highly efficient and environmentally friendly cooling devices.
Thermal Centric Corporation Utility
and Industrial Heat
108 W. 13th Street Exchangers
The recovery of wasted heat in exhausts will reduce fuel consumption in most every commercial and industrial sector. This project will explore new conductive graphite materials that have created a significant opportunity to make innovative heat exchangers that recover energy from the exhausts of thermal-electric power generators, thereby saving billions of dollars in energy costs annually.
TOPIC:
SOLID STATE LIGHTING
STTR Project
Add-Vision, Inc. Materials Degradation Analysis and
Scotts
This project will develop a technology enabling ultra low cost printing of specialty organic solid state lighting products with thin, flexible and robust form factor. By addressing the degradation mechanisms of the light-emitting organic devices of this approach, this project will enable new lighting products utilizing United States-based manufacturing.
Universal Display Corporation Efficient
Large Area WOLED Lighting
This project will increase
the conversion efficiency of electrical energy into light of white-organic-lightemitting devices and thereby enable replacement of
inefficient conventional incandescent bulbs, which consume over 8% of the
electricity produced in the
Universal Display Corporation High
Efficacy Phosphorescent SOLED
375 Phillips Boulevard Lighting
This project will
increase the conversion efficiency of electrical energy into light of white-organic-light
emitting devices and thereby enable replacement of inefficient conventional
incandescent bulbs, which consume over 8% of the electricity produced in the
TOPIC:
NEUTRON AND ELECTRON BEAM INSTRUMENTATION
Adelphi Technology, Inc. Neutron Compound Refractive Prisms
The proposed compound neutron prism is more powerful than existing neutron optics while providing cost-effective methods that will aid in a range of applications including materials analysis, nondestructive testing, crystallography for proteomics and genomics and the analysis of magnetic films used in information storage.
STTR Project
Cermet,
Inc High Efficiency
Electron Detector
The project will
develop fast, highly efficient electron detectors for microscopy.
Hysitron,
Inc. Quantitative
In-Situ TEM Tensile
Nanostructured materials have shown very promising prospective as emerging energy materials. However, due to their tiny size, reliable methods for exploring their mechanical properties remain elusive despite a number of encouraging efforts. This project will use the quantitative in-situ TEM tensile technique to solve these paramount puzzles effectively.
Hysitron,
Inc. Quantitative
In-Situ TEM
10025 Valley View Road Nanotribology Tester
This project intends to realize a novel research tool for improved understanding of the mechanisms of friction, solid lubrication, and wear. Increased fundamental knowledge in these areas may lead to breakthrough discoveries and products that help reduce the tremendous national cost associated with the energy-robbing processes of friction and wear.
STTR Project
NOVA Scientific,
Inc. Efficient Thermal Neutron
Position
This project will develop a powerful neutron-sensitive solid-state
imaging detector having high spatial resolution along with fast timing, leading
to expanded capabilities in fuel cell studies, material research, as well as
geophysical and biological specimen research.
ORDELA, Inc. Application of
Pixel-Cell Detector
Available
neutron detectors limit the characterization of intense neutron beams at
national user facilities used for the advanced study of materials. This project
will remove these limitations. Advancing detector capabilities increases
operational efficiency at these facilities, resulting in important savings in
operation cost and increased experimental output.
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC USER FACILITIES
Dynaflow,
Inc. Development of a
Bubble Generator
10621-J Iron Bridge Rd Suitable for Spallation
Neutron
Applications
Safe and maintainable operation of the Spallation Neutron Source requires massive injection of micron sized bubbles in the mercury. An innovative micron-sized bubble generator suitable for this purpose will be developed based on company’s bubble generation and acoustic instrumentation and diagnostics technologies.
Dynaflow,
Inc. Development
of a Numerical Design
10621-J Iron Bridge Rd Tool for Spallation
Neutron Source
This project will produce a simulation tool capable of accurately representing the coupled interactions between shock waves, gas bubbles, gas layers and solid structures. This tool will allow users to fully explore current and novel cavitation erosion mitigation strategies for the Spallation Neutron Source target.
Kapteyn-Murnane
Laboratories, Inc. Development
of New Mid-Infrared
This project will develop advanced laser technologies that will make possible tabletop “x-ray laser” light sources. This technology promises to be useful for basic studies in chemistry and physics, for developing super-high-resolution microscopes for biology and medicine, for viewing nanoscale materials, and for applications in the nanoelectronics industry.
RadiaBeam
Technologies, LLC Single Shot Bunch Length
Monitoring,
This project will develop a novel diagnostic for measurement of ultra-fast, ultrashort beams on a real time, single-shot basis in advanced accelerator facilities. This innovative device will yield previously unobserved time-scale resolutions and also be used to develop time-saving monitors that will reduce wasted down time at these federally funded facilities.
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. High Performance X-ray
Detector
44 Hunt Street Arrays
This project will investigate a new detector design that will have far reaching implications in fundamental scientific studies as well as commercial applications. It will be useful in diverse fields such as materials studies, health care and space research.
TOPIC:
ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE ACCELERATOR FACILITIES
Calabazas
Creek Research, Inc. 350 MHz 200 kW CW Multiple
Beam
Efficient, high power, radio frequency sources are required for many planned and proposed accelerator programs. This project will develop a new radio frequency source that would be more efficient, more compact, and less costly then existing alternatives.
DULY Research Inc. THz Source Based on Photoinjector
Filling
a gap in the electromagnetic spectrum that lies between the
microwave/millimeter wave and the infrared regions, this project will develop a
new, compact terahertz source based on a photoelectron linear accelerator to
meet the high demand in broad applications for biology, superconductivity,
chemistry, physics, environmental monitoring, satellite communications and
homeland security.
nGimat
This project will develop thinner Nb3Sn superconducting wire insulation that will allow more efficient, improved range, and higher performance superconducting and high energy copper wire devices. Coating equipment will apply the insulation to kilometers of wire for prototype testing.
STTR Project
Q-Peak, Incorporated Cryo-Cooled Yb:YAG Lasers for
Fundamental studies of biology, materials science, and chemistry will greatly benefit from the next generation of linear accelerators and free-electron lasers. The project will make a significant advance in a key laser technology needed for these next-generation systems.
TOPIC:
MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
Ultramet Silicon Carbide
Tritium Permeation
12173 Montague Street Barriers for Steel Structural
Nuclear
fusion offers a viable alternative to fossil fuels for generating sufficient
electricity and meeting environmental requirements if materials are developed that
can deliver reliable operation in the demanding reactor environment. This
project will develop and demonstrate a tritium permeation barrier, which is a
key component for safe operation of fusion reactors.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED COAL RESEARCH
Membrane Technology and Research, Membrane Systems for Coal Bed
Carbon
Inc. Dioxide
Sequestration and Methane
Injection of carbon dioxide into unmineable coalbeds is a promising sequestration technology, particularly if coalbed methane displaced by the carbon dioxide can be economically treated and recovered for fuel use. Economical removal of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen and water from this gas is key; this project will develop membranes that can be used effectively for this type of separation.
TOPIC:
COAL GASIFICATION AND COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES
Diversified Energy Corporation HydroMax - Overcoming the Challenges
HydroMax
will reduce and stabilize the price of fuel gas for the
Eltron Research & Development Inc. Perovskite
Adsorbents for Warm-Gas
To utilize coal in non-polluting electric power plants and to produce hydrogen and synthetic fuels, impurities from coal must be reduced to the lowest levels. Scientifically designed sorbents are being developed to enable use of membranes for ultimate purification of hydrogen and for sequestration of carbon dioxide.
TDA Research, Inc. Magnetic Catalysts for
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The
liquid fuels produced by FT synthesis using coal-derived syngas
can provide an immediately viable alternative to crude oil required to help
provide energy independence to the
TOPIC:
ADVANCEMENTS IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL BALANCE-OF-PLANT AND TURBINE
PERFORMANCE AND SUB-SYTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS
Florida Turbine Technologies,
Inc. High Temperature Capability and
1701 Military Trail Innovative
Cooling with a Spar &
This project will develop an innovative new spar-shell
turbine blade design to facilitate revolutionary advances in power plant
performance, efficiency and clean operation. This design can be retrofitted
into existing power plants to allow energy savings equivalent to 4 days of
Precision Combustion, Inc. Novel
Water Neutral Diesel Fuel
This project addresses a
key requirement for the development of practical fuel cells for distributed
electrical power generation and mobile applications – the need to operate without
water addition during operation. This program will demonstrate a durable system
which meets this requirement at costs which are commercially viable, and
provide a key support for successful
R&D Dynamics Corporation Foil Gas Bearing Supported High
15 Barber Pond Road Temperature Cathode Recycle Blower
Expanding the use of fuel cells should reduce our dependency on foreign oil and limit global warming. This project will develop a low cost, high efficiency blower that will improve the efficiency and reliability of fuel cell systems.
TOPIC:
HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIALS FOR LONG TERM FOSSIL ENERGY APPLICATIONS
Aegis Technology Inc. A High-temperature Sealing
Advanced gas separation device/systems will significantly improve performance and reduce the costs of existing fossil systems or to enable the development of new systems and capabilities. This project will develop an advanced high-temperature seal material that is an essential step to achieve these objectives.
TOPIC:
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONS FOR FOSSIL ENERGY APPLICATIONS
67 East Evelyn Avenue Combustion Monitoring and Control
This project will support the development and demonstration of a novel instrument with unprecedented sensitivity, accuracy and reliability for monitoring and control of combustion emissions and of power plants and industrial processes; for engine diagnostics and for automobile monitoring; and for measurements of atmospheric pollutants, trace gases and greenhouse gases.
NEI Corporation A New Cost Effective
Sorbent for
There is a present need for sorbent technologies to enable coal-fired power plants to reduce mercury emissions. This project will develop a novel environmentally friendly sorbent technology to meet this emerging market need.
Signal Processing, Inc. A Novel Wireless Sensor Network with
Critical
Power Plant Components
Improving efficiency, reducing emissions, and reducing costs are key objectives of power plants. This project outlines a novel diagnostic and prognostic framework that can help meet the above objectives.
TIAX, LLC Development of Technologies
to
15 Acorn Park Reduce Freshwater Use
and
Plants
This project will use the low grade waste heat from fuel combustion that is normally discharged into the atmosphere in a coal-fired power plant to produce clean water by removing impurities from contaminated water using a humidification/dehumidification process carried out at atmospheric pressure. The process will make sources of water accessible that are currently considered too contaminated for use, and reduce the withdrawal of useable water form lakes and rivers.
Trimeric
Corporation FGD Additives to
Segregate and
This project will develop new technology to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power plants and to prevent mercury environmental releases from power plant byproducts. The public will benefit from reduced exposure to mercury from the use of an abundant domestic energy source.
TOPIC:
OIL AND NATURAL GAS TECHNOLOGIES
Impact Technologies LLC Novel Low Cost Method to Install
5350 E. 46th Street Geophones for CO2 Monitoring
This project will develop a new advanced drilling system and assembly to drill small diameter, low cost wells with applications in the monitoring of CO2 enhanced oil floods and sequestration, oil and gas production, mining, construction, utility, pipeline, geothermal and other industries. This new drilling system allows for better control of the drilling process and for use of advanced drilling methods- resulting in safer, faster and cheaper drilling and boring.
TOPIC:
CLIMATE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR FOSSIL ENERGY APPLICATIONS
Enogetek,
Inc. A Novel Oxygen
Separation Membrane
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Successful completion of the current program will make significant contribution toward development of the new technologies that can effectively separate and capture CO2 from the coat-fired electric generating power plant, therefore, reducing the greenhouse gas emission without significantly increasing the electricity cost.
Weston Geophysical
Corp. Enhanced Monitoring of
Geological
Techniques
To successfully sequester greenhouse gases in subsurface reservoirs, scientists must be able to map any micro-earthquakes, which could indicate unintended movement of injected fluids. The technology provides high-resolution mapping of microseismicity that occurs in subsurface storage reservoirs.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
Analysis and Measurement Services Wireless Sensors for
Equipment
Corporation Health and Condition
Monitoring in
Building A
In a variety of industries, wireless sensors can significantly improve the ability of process engineers to identify equipment problems before a failure or accident occurs. This is provided that wireless sensors are properly deployed in these industries and their data is properly acquired, qualified, stored, and analyzed. This project provides the means to accomplish these objectives.
FAR-TECH, Inc. Spent Nuclear Fuel
Separation with
3550 General Atomics Court the
Archimedes Plasma Mass Filter
Building 15,
The Archimedes Plasma Mass Filter is an innovative, proliferation resistant technology for separating nuclear waste with potentially lower cost and environmental impact than chemical processing. This project will develop a vaporization source that would enable the Filter to be applied to the recycling of commercial spent nuclear fuel.
Luna Innovations Incorporated Low
Drift Ultra High Temperature
This project will develop low drift ultra-high temperature fiber-optic temperature sensors, hardened for radiation environments, specifically for Gen-IV reactors.
Polymer Aging Concepts, Inc. Development
of AgeAlert: A
Nuclear Power
Applications
This project will develop a sensor for detecting aging electrical insulation which will significantly improve availability and lower costs of building and operating nuclear power plants by providing a sensor that detects degradation of electric motor insulation in harsh environments, allowing replacement before failure. This sensor technology has applications in new automotive and aerospace technologies.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS ELECTRONICS DESIGN AND FABRICATION
XIA LLC Nuclear Physics
Electronics Design and
31057 Genstar
Road Fabrication Advances in
Digital
This project will develop high precision electronics which lower the cost and greatly increase the performance of a new analytic method to detect electromagnetic radiation from the near infrared to gamma rays. Its applications range from astronomy to materials analysis, including nuclear non-proliferation efforts to determine the composition, origin, and processing history of radioactive samples.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS PARTICLE AND RADIATION DETECTION SYSTEMS,
INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES
STTR Project
Adelphi Technology, Inc. High-Energy Gamma-ray Calibration Source
This
project will develop a device that will permit the accurate calibration of
gamma-ray detectors used in national and international nuclear safeguard
programs to identify radioactive sources and nuclear material. The device will
be portable, self-contained and will reduce the need for radioactive sources,
which are currently used for the calibration of these detectors.
STTR Project
Agiltron, Inc. Si Nanowires
for High Efficiency
15
Cabot Road Gamma Ray Detectors
National goals in nuclear physics, nuclear power generation, nuclear medicine, homeland security and the global war on terror call for a new generation of more compact, sensitive, lower cost radiation detectors. This project will develop a radically new family of nanotech-based detectors which promise to be the most significant advance in radiation sensors since the 1940's.
Integrated Sensors, LLC Novel, Low Cost, High Gain,
2403 Evergreen Road Micropattern
Detectors
New types of low cost, high performance, radiation detectors are needed for nuclear physics, homeland security and medical imaging. This project will develop devices to detect charged and neutral atomic particles including radioactive ions and gamma radiation over a wide energy range.
Mesolight,
LLC High-Efficiency and Less
Expensive
This project will develop high efficiency and less expensive nanocomposite scintillators that can be used nuclear materials detection, airport/dock x-ray screening/imaging, and diagnostic medical imaging.
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. SSPM Detector for Polarized
Target
44 Hunt Street Scintillation Readout
For novel scientific experiments studying fundamental questions of nature, photodetectors that operate down to – 450 °F in a high magnetic field are required for collecting critical data, but there are no cost-effective instruments that can fulfill this requirement. Photodetectors developed using a commercially available fabrication process are being evaluated and designed to provide scientists a standard instrument for a myriad of applications in these environments
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. New Detector for Gamma Ray
and
44 Hunt Street Neutron Studies
This project will investigate a novel detector technology that will be very useful in nuclear physics studies. It will also be useful in other scientific studies (such as high energy physics and space research), commercial applications (such as oil exploration and medical imaging) as well as in nuclear non-proliferation.
Tech-X Corporation Modeling of Signal Generation in
5621 Arapahoe Ave Gamma-Ray Detectors
Suite A
Gamma ray detectors will continue to be a fundamental tool of nuclear physics research for the foreseeable future. Optimal device performance depends on high fidelity simulations that can accurately model the physics.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY
STTR Project
InnoSense,
LLC Refractory Coated Silica Aerogels-Catchers
This
project will develop and demonstrate porous refractory materials as isotope
catchers for the efficient production of unstable light nuclei. This project
will support the DOE-FRIB Program objectives, which aim to develop production
methods and enhance the beam intensity of short-lived rare isotopes.
Niowave,
Inc. Development of a Low
Frequency SRF
1012 N. Walnut Street Electron Gun
Future accelerators will require high brightness, low emittance electron beams. This project will develop a low frequency superconducting electron gun that can be used as an electron cooler, an advanced x-ray and gamma ray source, and in free electron lasers.
Omega-P, Inc. High-Intensity Proton
Accelerator
Intense proton beams can be used for disposal of waste from nuclear reactor spent fuel rods, and other applications. This project is to explore a new concept for a compact accelerator to generate the proton beam.
Sienna Technologies, Inc. High
Performance Lossy Dielectric
This project will create environmentally friendly products by replacing toxic beryllia (BeO) with non-toxic aluminum nitride (AlN). This program will develop a new joining technology to facilitate insertion of high thermal conductivity AlN-based lossy dielectric high order mode (HOM) absorbers into superconductor radio frequency (SRF) cavities as well as microwave tubes to replace toxic BeO components.
TOPIC:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS SOFTWARE AND DATA MANAGEMENT
Tech-X Corporation Customizable Web Service for
Suite A Nuclear Physics
Relational Databases
This project will develop software and tools that will significantly help scientists efficiently access data from geographically distributed relational databases and more rapidly transform their raw data into scientific results and discovery.
TOPIC:
ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNATIONAL LINEAR COLLIDER
AMAC International Inc. High Resolution and Fast Scanning
This
project will use the innovative SQUID-based scanning system to inspect Nb sheets in fast and highly sensitive fashion to detect
micro particles and allow for the highest accelerating fields. It will help
considerably in reducing the cost of DOE multi million dollar projects and can
be used for many other applications in industries for high sensitive inspection
of metals.
Avar
Incorporated High Efficiency Fundemental Power
Particle accelerators are used in a wide variety of
research, medical, and processing applications but have been limited by their
high cost. This project is addressing one of the highest cost components, the
radio frequency power coupler, in order to significantly reduce capital and
operating costs making new accelerator applications possible.
Hyper Tech Research, Inc. Magnesium
Diboride Short Period
Positron
Source
This project will develop sub-size prototype undulators that will provide the necessary expertise for the eventual construction of an improved full scale undulator for the ILC.
Saxet
Surface Science Activation Layer Stabilization
of
This project will improve the background gas immunity of spin-polarized electron sources, thereby allowing them to function in the less-than-ideal environment of RF guns.
STTR Project
SVT Associates, Inc. High Polarization and
Gun
Applications
This project will create a new, highly efficient source of polarized electrons for use in high energy particle physics research.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS
Beam Power Technology, Inc. Development
of a Non-Axisymmetric
This project will develop a novel magnetic system for elliptic beams which have wide applications in particle accelerators and vacuum electron devices.
Crystal Systems, Inc. Reduced Parasitic Lasing in
27 Congress Street Ti:Sapphire
Lasers: Removing a
Acceleration
The new exciting field of ultrafast lasers faces a bottleneck with parasitic lasing in the Ti:sapphire laser crystal. This project is aimed at eliminating this bottleneck, allowing continued application of this laser technology to problems in high energy physics, national security, and cancer therapy.
EPIC Consulting Device Oriented Process
Controller
This project will
develop an approach to configure the I/O for a large physics project, reducing
the time to produce and maintain the massive amount of configuration data by
providing the engineers and physicists with tools that configure the system at
a high level. The creation, duplication, and management of devices, compresses
the external view of the process by an order of magnitude.
This project will develop a technology to be able to electrically control the frequency of microwave devices for particle acceleration. This eliminates the need for mechanical tuning and may permit these devices to be manufactured more inexpensively.
5900 Harper Rd. #102 Dielectric Structures
This project will develop software and instrumentation tools to study and improve the performance of advanced research accelerators.
Muons,
Inc. Magnets for Muon 6D Helical Cooling
This project will develop a new system of superconducting magnets to shrink the size of a beam of muons in all dimensions to investigate nature at fundamental levels at the energy frontier and for several other scientific and commercial applications.
Muons,
Inc. Stopping Muon Beams
New beam cooling techniques will be applied to create an intense beam of low-energy muons that will stop in a small volume for particle physics experiments of exquisite sensitivity, muon spin resonance studies, and muon-catalyzed fusion.
Particle Beam Lasers, Inc. Development
of a 6-Dimensional Muon
Test
of a High Temperature
Superconducting
Solenoid for the
System
This project is a continuation of initial work to develop a 6-Dimensional muon cooling system using achromat bends. The ultimate goal is to design, build, test and operate such a system at a national accelerator site or commercial ion laser facility. High Temperature Superconducting magnet technology is expected to make future accelerator facilities highly energy efficient.
TOPIC:
RADIO FREQUENCY ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATORS AND
COLLIDERS
5900 Harper Rd. #102 Extractor
This project will develop a
new kind of high power high frequency microwave power source. This technology
will have applications to basic research and to defense and communications.
STTR Project
GeneSiC
Semiconductor Inc. SiC
Optically Gated High Power
This project will design, fabricate and
characterize high-gain, SiC-based high-voltage, Optically-Gated High-power Solid-state Switch (SiC-OGHSS)
for electromagnetic-interference (EMI) immune and optically-isolated
compact, sub-microsecond pulsed-power applications.
Omega-P, Inc. Multi-MW
22.8 GHz Harmonic
199 Whitney Ave., Suite 200 Multiplier--Rf Power Source for
Basic laboratory studies are needed to understand high field limits in candidate structures for a future affordable particle accelerator. This project aims to build a new microwave source for this purpose with minimum investment in new technology.
Tech-X Corporation Simulations of Waveguide Breakdown
Suite A
Understanding breakdown of metallic structures with high gradients is needed to improve neutrino physics experiments that are important to the future of Fermilab. This project will model atomic processes in plasmas that will provide models of the onset of breakdown, and will also have application to Air Force plasma physics research.
TOPIC:
HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES FOR
HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE COLLIDERS
Hyper Tech Research,
Inc. High Field MgB2
Strands for High
1275 Kinnear
Road Energy Particle
Colliders
This project will develop an affordable magnesium diboride superconductor for next generation High Energy Physics accelerator magnets and components.
SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. Flux Pinning
Additions to Increase Jc
2839 Charter Street Performance in BSCCO-2212 Round
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 generations
of particle accelerators. To do this, high field superconducting magnets are required and this
project will design high quality conductors, at
low cost, to be used in these magnets.
Supercon,
Inc. High Performance, Ti
Doped Nb3Sn
The magnets for the next
generation of high energy physics and fusion machines will require development
of superconducting wire capable of high performance at very high magnetic
fields. This project will develop a novel fabrication route for producing Nb3Sn
superconductor at reduced cost and higher performance.
STTR Project
Supercon, Inc. React-Wind-Sinter
Technology
The goal of this program is to reduce the cost and risk associated
with producing high temperature superconducting magnets for high energy
physics, while also improving performance. It will accomplish this goal through
the development of a unique heat treating process for fabricating Bi2212 HTS
magnets.
SupraMagnetics,
Inc. Towards
a Non-Cu Jc(12T) of 4,000
214 Canal Street A/mm2 with Novel Second Phase Flux
Applications
This project will develop a new economical Nb3Sn superconductor for high field magnets utilized in high energy physics research, fusion machines, and MRI and NMR instruments for the general benefit of the public.
TOPIC:
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTORS
Voxtel,
Inc. Large Area,
A new solid state detector is proposed, which is manufactured using standard silicon semiconductor processing, is inexpensive, which is highly sensitive to Cherenkov radiation, and which also has great promise for enabling a number of nuclear medicine applications such as SPECT and PET and bio-medical applications such as DNA sequencing.
Voxtel,
Inc. High Resolution
15-Micron Thin,
12725 SW Millikan Way Pixellated,
Back-Illuminated SOI
This project will build a machine for precision measurement. It requires sensors that are technologically superior in terms of high segmentation and low mass. This is uncharted territory for charged particle detection, and is a field that pushes current efforts to new areas in sensor development.
TOPIC:
NUMERICAL SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE
Tech-X Corporation Library-Based Tuning of Mathematical
5621 Arapahoe Ave Kernals on Petascale Systems
Suite A
Simulation codes have to be optimized to take full advantage of latest generation of supercomputers. This project will tune a simulation tool widely used within DOE scientific community to maximize the scientific return of these expensive systems.
TOPIC:
SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION AND DATA UNDERSTANDING
Tungsten Graphics, Inc. Open Source OpenGL Driver for the
114 S Prize
Scientists and researchers currently use the Cell BE processor for computation but also
need a platform for graphically visualize the results. The OpenGL driver for the Cell BE
processor will allow this community to use the same Cell BE-based computer clusters to
compute and visualize their data. This project will also support the emerging convergence
of CPUs and GPUs.
TOPIC:
HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS
This project will develop and deploy advanced software solutions that address
the needs of next-generation government computing and networking infrastructures as
well as large-scale commercial interests.
TOPIC:
SCALABLE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE FOR PETASCALE COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Accelogic,
LLC LAPACKrc
- An FPGA Linear Algebra
609 Spinnaker Library for
Maximal-Performance
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are specialized programmable processors that adapt their hardware resources to better tackle the problem at hand. This will enable supercomputer applications (oil & gas, nuclear, weather, aircraft design, etc.) to exploit FPGAs to solve mathematical equations hundreds of times faster than traditional computers-at lower costs.
TOPIC:
HIGH PERFORMANCE MIDDLEWARE
Tech-X Corporation SVOPME:A Scalable
Virtual
5621 Arapahoe Ave Organization Privilege Management
Suite A Environment
This project will develop a scalable environment that will make administering user privileges and enhancing the security of large number of computers easy. These tools will enable scientists to work and share resources more efficiently.
TOPIC:
DISCOVERY, SEARCH, AND COMMUNICATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES IN
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
David Wojick Discovery Tools for
Science
391 Flickertail Lane Education Content
Star Tannery, VA 22654-1908
Today there is no way to search the Web for science that is suited to students in a specific grade in school. This project will train a computer to recognize grade level when it searches, so students can find what they need.
Deep Web Technologies, LLC Multi-Lingual
Federated Search
301 North Guadalupe
This project aims to allow researchers to search scientific sources in their native language and view results lists and documents that have been translated.
Deep Web Technologies, LLC Source Selection
Optimization
301 North Guadalupe
High quality scientific information often lives in places on the web that Google and the other popular search engines can't access. This project aims to assist in discovering and creating access to quality sources, and to facilitating selection of the most relevant sources to search.
Edgewater Technology Associates, Multi-Faceted Clustering
of
Inc Meta-Search
Results
The U.S. Government,
including the Department of Energy, is faced with the growing problem of
finding the most relevant scientific and technical information on the Internet.
This project will create a next generation search system to provide the best
answers to users even when they do not know where to look and how to best
organize the information for productive use.
STTR Project
Information International Automated
Tool for Locating,
Associates, Inc. Harvesting
and Storing Experimental
A wealth of scientific and technical data is in a distributed set of data repositories, and at a growing pace. This project will develop the foundation whereby scientific documents become executable through use of improved metadata linked from the document and embedded in the data set.
TOPIC:
RESEARCH TO SUPPORT PROLIFERATION DETECTION
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. Developing CZT for Single
Element
44 Hunt Street Spectrometers
This project will investigate a novel detector technology that will be very useful in nuclear non-proliferation. Our chosen crystal growth method promises to increase the yield of spectrometer grade material that is necessary for wide spread use of these detectors in the nuclear non-proliferation application. The detector technology will also be useful in other scientific studies (such as high energy physics and space research), commercial applications (such as oil exploration and medical imaging), as well as in nuclear physics experiments.
Structured Materials Industries, Miniature
Spherical Retroreflectors
Inc. Fabricated by
Fluidized Bed CVD
201 Circle Drive North
Unit # 102
This project will develop novel technology to produce miniature omni directional reflectors. These miniature reflectors will enable laser techniques to remotely identify chemical, biological and radiological agents in the atmosphere.
TOPIC:
RESERACH TO SUPPORT NUCLEAR EXPLOSION MONITORING
Geotech Instruments, LLC Prototyping an Intrinsically Digital
10755 Sanden Drive Broadband Seismometer
This project will design and build a seismometer that combines the essential features of a traditional pure analog seismometer, which outputs a voltage signal, with a traditional digitizer, which samples that voltage signal and provides digital word output.
PMD Scientific, Inc. Next Generation Robust Low Noise
105-F
This project will develop a conceptually new very high performance seismometer aimed at improved nuclear explosion monitoring. The new instrument will also be very competitive in the worldwide marketplace for a variety of other applications.
Rocky Mountain Geophysics, LLC Development
of Low-Noise Smart
167 Piedra
Loop Sensors for Small
Explosion
Subcritical nuclear explosions can be used by nascent nuclear states for weaponization of nuclear bombs. Development of a Low-Noise Smart Sensor will provide the United States Government with the capability to remotely monitor subcritical experiments at foreign test sites.
TOPIC:
HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING SECOND GENERATION WIRE
Composite Technology Development, Nanocomposite Insulation for 2G
Inc. Superducting Wires
Suite D
Advanced insulator materials are needed to enable the continued development of more efficient power-distribution systems based on second-generation (2G) superconducting wires. To achieve this goal, the dielectric materials must be capable of long-term operation at high voltages and cryogenic temperatures.
Metal Oxide Technologies, Inc. Ultra-Fast
MOCVD Growth of Highly
This project will dramatically reduce the cost of high temperature superconducting wire which operates without electrical loss. A reliable, commercially viable superconducting wire will benefit: (1) Government and military mission critical programs, (2) Industry development and economic growth, (3) The environment by reducing the consumption of politically unstable fossil fuel.
TOPIC:
POWER ELECTRONICS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE
GeneSiC
Semiconductor Inc. Large Area SiC
GTO Thyristor
This project will develop revolutionary new semiconductor technology that will allow efficient processing of Megawatts of electrical power with digital precision. This key enabler allows adoption of alternative energy sources, preservation of organic agricultural products, robust hardware for modern utility grid, realization of next generation of Naval power systems and directed energy weapon systems. It represents the “Future of Power Electronics.”
Giner, Inc. Nano-Engineered
Carbon
This project will develop a low-cost, high-energy and high-power all-solid-polymer-electrolyte carbon-carbon electrochemical double-layer supercapacitor that does not contain any corrosive or toxic chemicals and could be used in the energy industry and variety of utility applications providing improved power quality and reliability and energy/demand cost savings from load leveling.
One-Cycle Control, Inc. One-Cycle Controlled Reactive Power
12 Mauchly Supply Inverter
(OCC-RPSI) for
Suite P Distributed
Energy
In August 2003, insufficient reactive power was a major cause of the NY blackout. This project will develop breakthrough technology that will enable grid operators to leverage numerous small distributed-energy resources to inject real and reactive power, to improve the stability, capacity, and reliability of the electric grid.
TOPIC:
CARBON CYCLE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE BIOSPHERE
Aerodyne Research, Inc. Development of Aircraft Borne 13CH4
45 Manning Road Analyzer
Using a Continuous Wave
Spectrometer
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. This project will produce a laser based isotopic methane monitor that will be used to quantify the various sources of atmospheric methane based on their distinct isotopic signatures in order to assess the impact of methane on global warming and climate change.
Lenterra
Inc. A Cost-Effective
Analytical
7 Tenney
Road Technology
for Identification and
This project will develop a prototype of gas analyzer, based on the proprietary analytical technology that measure important greenhouse gas constituents. The project will result in the development of a cost effective portable autonomous platform for environmental gas analysis.
67 East Evelyn Avenue Measurements in the Field
The instrument developed will be the first gas analyzer capable of providing real-time measurements of methane isotopomers (13CH4, 12CH4 and δ13C) in ambient air and thus enable fast, accurate quanitification of methane oxidation in landfills, wetlands, urban environments, as well as oil and gas exploration, and environmental research.
NovaWave
Technologies, Inc. Real-Time Multispecies
Greenhouse
This project will develop compact, low-cost, accurate, and highly reliable trace gas sensors that are suitable for the autonomous sensing of greenhouse gases in the field. These sensors are presently required for improving our understanding of global climate change, emissions monitoring for regulatory compliance, and will be suitable for a variety of industrial process control applications.
Picarro,
Inc. Methane and Carbon
Dioxide
480 Oakmead
Parkway Eddy-Covariance Flux
Monitor
Measurement of small changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations provide important information related to greenhouse gases and global warming. This project will develop a monitor for tracking these gases to facilitate the prediction of future climate trends.
Southwest Sciences, Inc. High Precision CO2 Field Sensor
Suite E-11
Understanding the effects of
carbon dioxide on climate requires high precision field measurements, yet
current instrumentation is inadequate to meet the required needs and provide
the detailed information necessary. This project will develop a compact, rugged
optical sensor for making high precision measurements of carbon dioxide and
other important greenhouse gases.
TOPIC:
GENOMES-TO-LIFE (GTL) AND RELATED BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Gevo,
Inc. Engineering Isobutanol Production
Building C,
This project enables efficient and commercial production of an isobutanol biofuel using existing process technology developed by and for the ethanol industry.
STTR Project
Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies, Ethanologenic / Electricigenic
Consolidated
LLC Bioprocessing
of Cellulosic
Biomass
The
STTR Project
NamesforLife,
LLC NamesforLife Semantic Resolution
4233 Jacob
NamesforLife is a novel
technology that resolves uncertainty about the meaning of biological names or
other dynamic terminologies. It uses
those terms to create persistent links to related information, goods, and
services available on the Internet, even if the terms have changed.
SunEthanol
Inc. Genome-Enabled
Advancement of
100 Venture Way Biomass
to Biofuel Technology
Improved technologies are needed to enable the economical production of ethanol from renewable biomass resources such as agricultural, lumber, and paper industry wastes. We have discovered a novel microbe, Clostridium phytofermentans, that directly and efficiently converts a broad-range of readily available and relatively inexpensive biomass sources to ethanol. The goal of this project is to develop a simplified and less expensive commercial process to convert biomass to ethanol.
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUBSURFACE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING
STTR Project
Burge Environmental, Inc. In-Situ
Monitoring of the Radioactive
6100 South Maple Avenue Contaminant 99TC in
Ground 99TC in
This project will develop a field-deployable monitoring system for the
cost-effective and rapid determination of radioactive substances in the
groundwater at federal sites, such as Hanford Site,
New England Research, Inc. A
New High-Resolution Method for the
331 OLcott
Drive, Suite L1 Characterization of
Heterogeneous
White River
Flow
and Transport Parameters via
the Integration of MultiScale
HYdroGeophysical Data
This project will develop a high-resolution geophysical method for environmental remediation that enables scientists to characterize, and integrate hydrogeologic properties at all scales. This represents a powerful new approach to understanding the flow and transport of contaminants in the heterogeneous subsurface.
Vista Clara Inc. Low-Cost Small Diameter NMR
This project will develop low-cost, small-diameter NMR instrumentation and analysis software for subsurface characterization and monitoring. The technology developed through this program will be widely applicable to groundwater development, management, and remediation and monitoring of contaminated aquifers.
TOPIC:
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY
Aerodyne Research, Inc. Aerosol Mass Spectrometry via
Small airborne particles generated from energy-related activities can adversely impact human health, visibility, and global climate. This project will develop an instrument with unique capabilities for measuring carbonaceous particulate matter, including real-time measurements of particle size and chemical composition, particularly black carbon (soot).
67 East Evelyn Avenue Instrumentation for the
This project will develop a
flight-based analyzer to study chemical species that are critical in formation
of aerosol particulates. These particulates have been strongly implicated in
global warming and pulmonary diseases.
SPEC Incorporated A Dual-Wavelength In
Situ Cloud
A novel dual-wavelength in situ cloud lidar flown on research aircraft and UAV’s will provide large-volume measurements of cloud microphysical properties, which are needed to compare with the inherently large view of clouds that satellites provide. This project will develop a new lidar that will provide measurements of cloud properties on the same scale as satellite observations, thereby minimizing biases from mismatched sampling volumes. The improved satellite retrievals of cloud properties are needed to improve parameterizations of cloud properties used in climate models.
TOPIC:
MEDICAL SCIENCES
ALEM-RMD Joint Venture Novel Ceramic Scintillators
for PET
The project will investigate two promising nuclear detector materials that will have major impact in medical imaging, physics, homeland security, scientific studies as well as commercial applications.
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. Novel Parallax Free Sensor
for
44 Hunt Street Molecular
Imaging
This project will allow realization of the full potential of current state-of-the-art X-ray/γ- ray systems used in medical imaging, scanning equipment at airports, seaports and border control points, detectors for homeland security, and in small animal research, which is vitally important for the rapid and cost-effective development of new drugs.
Radiation Monitoring
Devices, Inc. A Novel Microfluidic
Detector with
44 Hunt Street Position
Sensitivity
This project will investigate a promising detector technology, which will have major impact in medicine and health-care, scientific studies, health care, homeland defense as well as industrial applications.
TOPIC:
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS
STTR Project
Composite Technology Development, High-Performance
Magnet
Inc. Technology for
Fusion Applications
Suite D
High performance magnets are a key component of the fusion energy
programs under development by the U.S. Department of Energy. This project seeks to extend the state of the
art in magnet technology to ensure the reliable operations of these future
machines.
HyPerComp
Inc. Rapid Turnaround MHD
Modeling
2629 Townsgate
Rd., Suite 105 Ability for Liquid Breeder
Blankets
This project will develop rapid simulation capabilities that will enable dramatic savings in the cost associated with testing and reduce the risk in ITER and other fusion based test devices. It holds critical enabling potential for efficient thermal management of fusion energy systems, and paves the way for their safe, reliable, economic and environmentally benign operation
Hyper-Therm
High-Temperature Low
Conductivity SiC-Based Ceramic
Composites, Inc. Composites for Fusion Blanket Flow
18411 Gothard
Street Channel Inserts
Unit B
Fusion energy is the long term source of clean, non-polluting power, but development of new materials that can operate in the high neutron flux environment of a fusion reactor is required. This project addresses the development of a high temperature material compatible with the fusion energy environment that also possesses the necessary component specific properties to address one of the limitations on advancing fusion power along the road to viability.
Materials Modification, Inc. Nano Tungsten for Diverter Plates
Nuclear reactors can benefit from improved tungsten plate material for more reliable heat extraction without contaminating the nuclear reactor with erosion debris. This project will undertake efforts to further advance work into the production of tungsten plate with very fine grain structure, bringing out its highest reliability as a key metal.
TOPIC:
FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Lodestar Research Corporation Linear
Analysis and Verification
This project will develop a sophisticated computer software standard for the analysis and verification of plasma simulation codes. These simulation codes are increasingly employed to understand, predict and optimize the performance of fusion energy production for laboratory experiments and the international fusion energy project, ITER.
Rockfield
Research Inc. Improved
Controls for Fusion RF
2 Olde Lyme
Road Systems
A modernized transmitter
protection system will be designed and a prototype built for the current drive
experiment on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak
fusion experiment at the
Tech-X Corporation Analysis of RF Heating of Fusion
5621 Arapahoe Ave Plasmas Using the Delta-f
Suite A Particle-in-Cell
(DFPIC) Method
The development of fusion energy depends on a detailed prediction of the heating of the plasma and associated driven currents. This project would provide the ability to compute these effects through the application of novel algorithms that will efficiently use future high-performance computing systems.
Third Dimension Technologies Holographic
Density Measurements for
3601 Bluff Point Drive the Disruption Mitigation Test Stand
This project will use a
high-resolution, high-speed diagnostic using laser digital holography for three
dimensional studies of magnetic fusion energy devices, with the goal of
improving confinement for commercial magnetic fusion energy generation.
Commercial use of the technology for ultra-precision measurement will increase
Woodruff Scientific, LLC Compression of Compact Tori
Significant problems exist for mainline fusion reactor concepts: e.g. production of the sustaining magnetic fields, and reducing size and complexity of the system to be commercially viable. Some of these problems can be circumvented by compressing plasma rings, which is what we propose here.
TOPIC:
HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS FOR INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY
MSNW, LLC Plasma Liner Compression
of Compact
8551 154th Avenue NE Toroids to Fusion
Conditions
High temperature fusion plasma is to be created in a small-scale device with the potential of greatly simplifying the generation of useful fusion energy. The results from this research will have broad application to the field of high energy density physics, as well as other fusion devices such as the international fusion reactor ITER.
Research Applications Corporation Enhanced Model for Fast
Ignition
148 Piedra
Fast ignition offers a potentially low cost route to success
by the