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Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells (open access)

Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (project title "Direct Wafer Enabling Terawatt Photovoltaics") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: 1366 Technologies, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Membrane Dehumidifier (open access)

Membrane Dehumidifier

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses air conditioning with more energy efficient dehumidifying as part of the "High-Efficiency, On-Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates" project.
Date: February 15, 2012
Creator: ADMA Products
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power (open access)

Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new system architecture for a solar-electric conversion tower as part of the "High-Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Abengoa Solar, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science Requirements and Conceptual Design for a Polarized Medium Energy Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab (open access)

Science Requirements and Conceptual Design for a Polarized Medium Energy Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab

Researchers have envisioned an electron-ion collider with ion species up to heavy ions, high polarization of electrons and light ions, and a well-matched center-of-mass energy range as an ideal gluon microscope to explore new frontiers of nuclear science. In its most recent Long Range Plan, the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) of the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation endorsed such a collider in the form of a 'half-recommendation.' As a response to this science need, Jefferson Lab and its user community have been engaged in feasibility studies of a medium energy polarized electron-ion collider (MEIC), cost-effectively utilizing Jefferson Lab's already existing Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). In close collaboration, this community of nuclear physicists and accelerator scientists has rigorously explored the science case and design concept for this envisioned grand instrument of science. An electron-ion collider embodies the vision of reaching the next frontier in Quantum Chromodynamics - understanding the behavior of hadrons as complex bound states of quarks and gluons. Whereas the 12 GeV Upgrade of CEBAF will map the valence-quark components of the nucleon and nuclear wave functions in detail, an electron-ion collider will determine the largely unknown role sea quarks play and …
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Abeyratne, S.; Ahmed, S.; Barber, D.; Bisognano, J.; Bogacz, A.; Castilla, A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops (open access)

Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to engineer plants to produce enzymes that will reduce costs in the production of biofuel (project title "Conditionally Activated Enzymes Expressed in Cellulosic Energy Crops") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Agrivdia
System: The UNT Digital Library
TOWARD AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURE AND MAGNETISM IN NEPTUNIUM AND PLUTONIUM PHOSPHONATES AND SULFONATES (open access)

TOWARD AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURE AND MAGNETISM IN NEPTUNIUM AND PLUTONIUM PHOSPHONATES AND SULFONATES

This grant supported the exploratory synthesis of new actinide materials with all of the actinides from thorium to californium with the exceptions of protactinium and berkelium. We developed detailed structure-property relationships that allowed for the identification of novel materials with selective ion-exchange, selective oxidation, and long-range magnetic ordering. We found novel bonding motifs and identified periodic trends across the actinide series. We identified structural building units that would lead to desired structural features and novel topologies. We also characterized many different spectroscopic trends across the actinide series. The grant support the preparation of approximately 1200 new compounds all of which were structurally characterized.
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Albrecht-Schmitt, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel From Algae (open access)

Fuel From Algae

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to efficiently separate micro-solids from water (project title "Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Algaeventure Systems
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supersonic Technology for CO2 Capture (open access)

Supersonic Technology for CO2 Capture

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a new device as part of the "A High Efficiency Inertial CO2 Extraction System" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Alliant Techsystems
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cerium-Based Magnets (open access)

Cerium-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses magnets made of cerium as part of the "Novel High Energy Permanent Magnet Without Critical Elements" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Ames Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
1981-2010 U. S. Hourly Normals (open access)

1981-2010 U. S. Hourly Normals

This is the hourly normals meteorological data.
Date: 2012
Creator: Applequest, Scott; Arguez, Anthoney; Durre, Imke; Squares, Michael F. & Yin, Xungang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Efficient Building Ventilation Systems (open access)

Energy Efficient Building Ventilation Systems

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses air conditioning that uses moisture and heat exchange technology as part of the "Innovative Building-Integrated Enthalpy Recovery" project.
Date: February 15, 2012
Creator: Architectural Application
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exchange-Spring Magnets (open access)

Exchange-Spring Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new cost-effective exchange-spring magnet as part of the "Nanocomposite Exchange-Spring Magnets for Motor and Generator Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Conditioning with Magnetic Refrigeration (open access)

Air Conditioning with Magnetic Refrigeration

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses air conditioning with magnetic refrigeration as part of "An Efficient, Green Compact Cooling System Using Magnetic Refrigeration" project.
Date: February 15, 2012
Creator: Astronautics Corporation of America
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integration of Renewables Via Demand Management (open access)

Integration of Renewables Via Demand Management

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses an automated control software to manage the electric grid as part of the "Highly Dispatchable and Distributed Demand Response for the Integration of Distributed Generation" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: AutoGrid Systems, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor (open access)

Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of traction motor for electric vehicles as part of the "Rare Earth-Free Traction Motor for Electric Vehicle Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Baldor Electric Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cascade Reverse Osmosis Air Conditioning System (open access)

Cascade Reverse Osmosis Air Conditioning System

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses air conditioning that has increased electrical efficiency as part of the "Cascade Reverse Osmosis and the Absorption Osmosis Cycle" project.
Date: February 22, 2012
Creator: Batelle Memorial Institute
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Progress Report (open access)

Final Progress Report

The BIOMOL grant was for 'Local System Support for PDB Biological Unit Search and Display' to augment Rasmol's [Bernstein 2000] [Sayle, Milner-White 1995] existing macromolecular display functions with new capabilities by taking advantage of recent increases in local computing power in order to move functionality that is now scattered among various local and remote systems into one local package. Work included new algorithms for molecular surface display, an extended format for Protein Data Bank Entries, work on issues relating to the integration of multiple diffraction images formats.
Date: February 6, 2012
Creator: Bernstein, Herbert J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors (open access)

Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses advanced flywheel composite rotors as part of the "Low-Cost, High-Energy Density Flywheel Storage Grid Demonstration" project.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Boeing Aerospace Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
WPA Omnibus Award MT Wind Power Outreach (open access)

WPA Omnibus Award MT Wind Power Outreach

The objective of this grant was to further the development of Montana’s vast wind resources for small, medium, and large scale benefits to Montana and the nation. This was accomplished through collaborative work with wind industry representatives, state and local governments, the agricultural community, and interested citizens. Through these efforts MT Dept Environmental Quality (DEQ) was able to identify development barriers, educate and inform citizens, as well as to participate in regional and national dialogue that will spur the development of wind resources. The scope of DEQ’s wind outreach effort evolved over the course of this agreement from the development of the Montana Wind Working Group and traditional outreach efforts, to the current focus on working with the state’s university system to deliver a workforce trained to enter the wind industry.
Date: January 30, 2012
Creator: Brian Spangler, Manager Energy Planning and Renewables
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators (open access)

Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new superconducting wire as part of the "Superconducting Wires for Direct-Drive Wind Generators" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
GFOC Project results: High Temperature / High Pressure, Hydrogen Tolerant Optical Fiber (open access)

GFOC Project results: High Temperature / High Pressure, Hydrogen Tolerant Optical Fiber

Tests results are given for exposure of multimode optical fiber to high temperatures (300 deg. C) and high partial pressure (15 bar) hydrogen. These results demonstrate that fluorine down doped optical fibers are much more hydrogen tolerant than traditional germanium doped multimode optical fibers. Also demonstrated is the similar hydrogen tolerance of carbon coated and non-carbon coated fibers. Model for reversible H2 impact in fiber versus T{sup o}C and H2 pressure is given. These results have significant impact for the longevity of use for distributed temperature sensing applications in harsh environments such as geothermal wells.
Date: February 12, 2012
Creator: Burov, E.; Pastouret, A.; Aldea, E.; Overton, B.; Gooijer, F. & Bergonzo, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamically Adjustable Wind Turbine Blades (open access)

Dynamically Adjustable Wind Turbine Blades

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to develop wind turbines with more efficient control systems (project title "Adaptive Turbine Blades: Blown Wing Technology for Low-Cost Wind Power") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contract information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Caitin Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scalable Distributed Automation System (open access)

Scalable Distributed Automation System

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a a distributed automation system for managing electricity from renewable resources as part of the "Scalable Real-time Decentralized Volt/VAR Control" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: California Institute of Technology
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaption (open access)

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaption

"This report focuses on the relationship between climate change and extreme weather and climate events, the impacts of such events, and the strategies to manage the associated risks."
Date: 2012
Creator: Cambridge University Press
System: The UNT Digital Library