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The Boeing Company
Boeing Research & Technology aims to develop a comprehensive solution for ultra-high performance turbine blades and other extreme environment aerospace applications. The team will develop a series of novel refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCA) and their processing parameters for both laser beam powder-bed-fusion/powder-feed-deposition additive manufacturing and advanced powder metallurgy manufacturing, as well as intermediate layer materials optimized for coating solutions.
… … Dr. Philseok Kim … ali.yousefiani@boeing.com … IL … ACTIVE … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
University of Maryland (UMD)
The University of Maryland will design, manufacture, and test high-performance, compact heat exchangers for supercritical CO2 power cycles. Two innovative additive manufacturing processes will enable high performance. One facilitates up to 100 times higher deposition rate compared with regular laser powder additive manufacturing. The other enables crack-free additive manufacturing of an advanced nickel-based superalloy and has the potential to print features as fine as 20 micrometers.
… be applied to high-efficiency fossil energy, concentrating solar power, and small modular nuclear energy. … 08/09/2018 … College Park … Prof. Ji-Cheng Zhao … 14637 … University of …
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will develop lightweight, cost-effective, precipitation-strengthened refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs) for additive manufacturing. The advantage is an alloy with all phases in thermodynamic equilibrium, promoting high microstructural stability. The alloys will be comprised of a ductile high entropy solid solution matrix strengthened by fine precipitates of the high entropy carbides. NETL will use high throughput, multi-scale computer modeling, and machine learning to identify novel alloys within the large compositional space.
… … Dr. Philseok Kim … David.Alman@netl.doe.gov … WV … ALUMNI … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
Foro Energy
Foro Energy will develop a high-power laser tool to assist in removing the extremely tough materials constituting aging energy assets in a timely, cost-effective, safe, and environmentally responsible manner. This cutting and melting tool will be capable of transmitting high-power laser light at long distances in a field environment, greatly boosting decommissioning efficiency.
… … The nation’s critical energy infrastructure is comprised of aging assets, including old nuclear power plants, thousands of dormant oil and gas wells, miles of pipelines with poor …
Fervo Energy
The proposed fiber-optics based integrated tool will provide an unprecedented level of detail on the most critical aspects of an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) – the hydromechanical properties and geometry of the fracture zones that provide flow connections between the reservoir and the well. It has the potential to play a major role in catalyzing the 100 GW, $300B opportunity for EGS in the United States.
… innovate on technologies that could also be utilized elsewhere in the aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and even space exploration fields. … 0 … The proposed fiber-optics based integrated tool …
University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (UND-EERC)
University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (UND-EERC) is developing an air-cooling alternative for power plants that helps maintain operating efficiency during electricity production with low environmental impact. The project addresses the shortcomings of conventional dry cooling, including high cost and degraded cooling performance during daytime temperature peaks. UND-EERC’s device would use an air-cooled adsorbent liquid that results in more efficient power production with no water consumption.
… consumption. The technology could be applied to a broad range of plants including fossil, nuclear, solar thermal, and geothermal. … 03/02/2012 … Grand Forks … Dr. Christopher Martin … …
University of Houston
The University of Houston will scale up manufacturing of low-cost rare earth barium copper oxide conductors for high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape to overcome barriers of implementing HTS in clean energy applications, including low-loss transmission cables, compact nuclear fusion reactors, high-power wind turbine generators, and highly efficient motors and generators.
… implementing HTS in clean energy applications, including low-loss transmission cables, compact nuclear fusion reactors, high-power wind turbine generators, and highly efficient motors and …
Marathon Fusion
Marathon Fusion will develop a test stand to support the evaluation of metal foil pumps in nuclear fusion systems that could propel the novel technology into pilot plants within a decade. Metal foil pumps tested by the proposed device could drastically reduce tritium inventories and the cost of tritium processing, significantly improving the fuel cycle cost for fusion power.
… 0 … Marathon Fusion will develop a test stand to support the evaluation of metal foil pumps in nuclear fusion systems that could propel the novel technology into pilot plants within a decade. …
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Woodruff Scientific, Inc., will develop a costing capability to help ARPA-E fusion performers estimate both the projected overnight capital cost and levelized cost-of-electricity (LCOE) of a fusion power plant based on their fusion concepts. These estimates will underlie essential technology-to-market analysis and help guide R&D priorities by illuminating the costliest aspects of different concepts and need for further development.
… an ideal energy source—safe, clean, and abundant. Based on the cost challenges facing advanced nuclear fission—which shares unit size, capital cost, and power-generation attributes with …
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a machine learning (ML) approach to optimize surfaces for boiling heat transfer and improve energy efficiency for applications ranging from nuclear power plants to industrial process steam generation. Predicting and enhancing boiling heat transfer presently relies on empirical correlations and experimental observations. MIT’s technology will use supervised ML models to identify important features and designs that contribute to heat transfer enhancement autonomously.
… surfaces for boiling heat transfer and improve energy efficiency for applications ranging from nuclear power plants to industrial process steam generation. Predicting and enhancing boiling …
University of Florida
Develop a means to combat the damage that neutron exposure causes to concrete used to house nuclear reactors. The project will explore novel additives incorporating boron and will determine whether or not, when bombarded with neutron radiation, these can produce lithium that improves the concrete’s strength and extends its lifetime.
… … Develop a means to combat the damage that neutron exposure causes to concrete used to house nuclear reactors. The project will explore novel additives incorporating boron and will determine …
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University will develop a novel method for producing electronic grade cubic boron nitride semiconductor wafers that could equip electronic devices to operate in extreme temperatures and conditions. The wafers—formed from microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition—would enable power devices that handle higher voltages and currents, furthering advancements in power distributions, electric transportation, nuclear energy, national security, health care, and material sciences.
… and currents, furthering advancements in power distributions, electric transportation, nuclear energy, national security, health care, and material sciences. … … Lubbock … Dr. Jingyu …
University of Maryland (UMD)
The University of Maryland will leverage a newly invented, ultrafast high-temperature sintering (UHS) method to perform fast exploration of new environmental-thermal barrier coatings (ETBCs) for 1300°C-capable refractory alloys for harsh turbine environments. UHS enables ultrafast synthesis of high-melting oxide coatings, including multilayers, in less than a minute, enabling rapid evaluation of novel coating compositions.
… … ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov … Dr. Philseok Kim … jczhao@umd.edu … MD … ALUMNI … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
QuesTek Innovations
QuesTek Innovations will apply computational materials design, additive manufacturing (AM), coating technology, and turbine design/manufacturing to develop a comprehensive solution for a next-generation turbine blade alloy and coating system capable of sustained operation at 1300°C.
… ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov … Dr. Philseok Kim … golson@questek.com … IL … ALUMNI … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Raytheon Technologies Research Center (RTRC) aims to design and validate the manufacturability and mechanical properties of a new hot section turbine alloy. To achieve higher efficiency turbine operation, RTRC will use additive manufacturing (AM) to produce test coupons (specimens) and potentially a representative turbine blade using a high entropy alloy (HEA) enhanced with oxide dispersion strengthening (ODS) particles.
… … Dr. Philseok Kim … john.sharon@rtx.com … CT … ALUMNI … Coal-fired and nuclear-powered plant electricity generation is uneconomical, unsafe, outdated, and/or …