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Technical results obtained from efforts to advance a particle-based Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power (Gen3CSP) technology and project deployment within the context of a plant for testing supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2 ) power cycle.
The technical report summarizes the technical achievements of DOE award "Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with EXO-200 and nEXO" to the University of Illinois from 2018 - 2023.
The objective of the Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI) project was to implement a collaborative Regional Initiative to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in the Midwest-Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic areas of the United States. This area encompasses a 20-state region with much of the country’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The MRCI project is co-led by Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle) in Columbus, Ohio, and the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) in Champaign, Illinois, and benefitted from the experience these organizations have acquired over the past 10-plus years leading two Department of Energy (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs): the Midwestern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP), led by Battelle, and the Midwest Geologic Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), led by the ISGS.
Final technical report for Remote Alaska Communities Energy Efficiency (RACEE)-funded project for the City of Noorvik. The community reduced per capita energy usage by 18% from 2010 levels by participating in the three phase project that included goal setting, technical assistance, and implementation funding.
Final Technical Report for DE-EE0009336 Solar Energy CommUnity Resiliency (SECURE) The Solar Energy CommUnity Resiliency (SECURE) project aimed to support development of resilient community microgrids to improve grid reliability and maintain power during times of crisis. The SECURE project approached this objective by addressing key technical and business challenges impeding implementation of resilient community microgrids. To achieve the goals of this project, we pursued several specific objectives through comprehensive design and requirements development.
Final technical report discussing the project background, the Michigan Basin large scale injection test, regional analyses, and additional studies.
This technical report summarizes our research toward the synthesis of active biomolecular materials that take advantage of the biological properties of DNA and RNA, but can operate in non-biological contexts. Our approach takes inspiration from the dynamic assembly and disassembly of cytoskeletal filaments inside cells, and focuses on the generation of artificial filaments with comparable adaptation and responsiveness. We report the construction of DNA nanotube systems that assemble and disassemble reversibly in response to a variety of molecular stimuli including other nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), enzymes, and pH, as well as our progress on developing a reaction network framework to regulate self-assembly. Our DNA polymers are active in that they rely on the programmable energetics of hybridization and on the kinetics of enzymatic reactions to perform assembly and disassembly. Results include experiments and computational models. The research described here was performed between June 15, 2016 and June 15, 2019 at the University of California at Riverside with the support of the collaborative award DE-SC0010595 to PI Elisa Franco at UC Riverside and PI Rebecca Schulman at Johns Hopkins. The report focuses on the research performed by the team of PI Franco. The report also details work performed during a no-cost extension (June 15, 2019 - December 15, 2019) awarded to PI Guillermo Aguilar and PI Franco.
Final Technical Report of the Cleantech University Prize DOE grant run at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also known as the MIT Clean Energy Prize.
This Technical Report focuses on two aspects of this project. First, the results from the calibration of the Spectator Reaction Plane Detector (SRPD) addition to the Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) in the CMS experiment are presented, followed by the pre-liminary results from radiation studies of quartz being performed using the electron linac here at the University of Maryland. The data taken in the November 2018 run are being analyzed with the ultimate goal of producing a reaction plane measurement using spectator neutrons detected in the ZDC. Funds provided by this grant partially supported the graduate student who is performing these calibrations. They were also used to support radiation tests of quartz rod material being performed at the University of Maryland Radiation Facilities Electron Linear Accelerator.
Final technical report for grant to the Native Village of Kiana as a part of the DOE Remote Alaska Communities Energy Efficiency (RACEE) competition. This project implemented energy efficiency and heat recovery projects in the remote village of Kiana.
This technical report summarizes the achievements during the project period. The general goal of the project is to enhance the representation of atmospheric deep convection in the DOE global climate model E3SM. By implementing a stochastic convection scheme into E3SM, we improved the simulation of precipitation intensity and frequency. As a result, it has a profound impact on the simulation of other fields in the model, including aerosol scavenging by precipitation and aerosol radiative effects. We also implemented a convective cloud microphysics scheme into E3SMv2 to represent more accurately the interaction between convection and grid-scale clouds. An extensive analysis of model simulations as part of the Next Generation Development (NGD) convection scheme assessment project found that including the convective microphysics scheme improved the simulation of Madden-Julian oscillations (MJO) in the model. To make convective parameterization schemes more scale-aware as the GCM resolution increases, we analyzed the output from cloud-resolving model (CRM) simulations of both organized and unorganized convection by coarse-graining the CRM data to different GCM resolutions. Using a novel approach to modify the convective closure, we demonstrated that the convection scheme used in E3SM (ZM scheme) can be made scale-aware.
This technical report summarizes the main accomplishments of the research performed under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Early Career Award (ECA), grant number DE-SC0018117, from 9/1/2017 to 8/31/2022, with Prof. Dennis Perepelitsa as the single PI. The grant proposal was to investigate the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in ultrarelativistic collisions of large nuclei with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and to prepare for this physics with the sPHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In particular, the focus was on QGP regions of different sizes and shapes, including the tradtional “large” collision systems such as Pb+Pb as well as small collision systems such as p+Pb, where there has been evidence of QGP “flow” but not yet the accompanying energy loss from hard-scattered partons traversing the QGP medium. Additionally, a particular tool was the use of photon+jet events, where the photon is unaffected by the QGP and thus serves as the “control” while the jet (the result of parton fragmentation) is the “probe” of the QGP. The research was successfully carried out, resulting in over ten publications of experimental measurements in peer-reviewed journals, and the significant training of junior scientists.
Final technical report for the Askaryan Calorimeter Experiment, a project for detector development of new picosecond timing planes for future collider detectors.
Final technical report for DOE Award No. DE-SC0022548 CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC
This technical report discusses the outcomes from a grant to the University of Dallas in collaboration with the University of Kentucky, the United States Naval Academy and Mississippi State University to measure neutron cross sections and to provide educational opportunities in nuclear science for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
Final technical report for the Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) project covering fiscal years FY22 through FY24. The DOE Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) is a partnership between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and major cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to provide universal access to big data in the cloud. At the heart of OEDI is a centralized repository of high-value energy research datasets aggregated from the U.S. Department of Energy's Program Offices, National Laboratories and other collaborators. It aggregates smaller, domain-specific repositories, allows direct data submissions, and includes support for big data through its energy data lakes. OEDI's data lakes make high-value data universally accessible and help researchers, collaborators and the general public overcome many of the obstacles to accessing and using big data.
Final technical report for the MIT portion of the FASTMath SciDAC-5 Institute.