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Energy harvesting bladeless turbine technology
The 10xHydro developed a patented technology that harvests and recovers lost energy in piping distribution systems. 10xHydro’s turbines generate electricity from fluids that flow in a building’s heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. The turbines re-use the energy of HVAC and water supply pumps to produce electric energy.
Low-cost Thin-shell Quasi-spherical Concrete Structures for Low Embodied and Operating Energy, Anywhere on Earth
Quasi-spherical structures, "domes", of thin-shell concrete, reinforced with Chomarat C-Grid carbon fiber epoxy, can be mass-produced, on site, with minimum import of materials, tooling, tools, and expertise for housing, storage, clinic, at optimum technical and economic size ~ 6 m diameter, 5/8 sphere.
Lower-cost Hydrogen Fuel Production from Distributed Wind via Paralleled Self-Excited Induction Generators (SEIG's) & Close-coupled Electrolysis at Multi-turbine Off-grid Windplants
Reduce cost of wind-source hydrogen fuel by simplified design, lower capex, O&M costs of turbines, windplants, electrolysis plants: 1. Designing turbines with low-cost induction motors as SEIG generators; 2. Connecting wind turbines' "wild DC" outputs to common DC bus; 3. Close-coupling electrolysis stacks to windplant DC bus.
Fourth Generation Situation Awareness
Bases need to keep energy supplies reliable and secure even when dependent upon civilian suppliers. The technology provides the commander the forecasts of supply conditions for up to 96 hours based on energy control actions within the base and by civilian suppliers outside the base.
New Stable Maximum Energy Density Lithium Nickelate (and Process) for Electric Vehicles/ Electronics
This new lithium nickelate cathode powder (and process) has the maximum energy density for lithium batteries while having good discharge rate and cycling stability with maximum range for EV’s (2 patents:1 pending)
Radioisotope Battery and Portable Nuclear Power for Space, Military, and Remote Applications
Developing an energy conversion mechanism that directly converts radiation from nuclear material into electricity.
Kinetic Energy Recapture System for trucks
Blackburn invented a new method for creating electricity and several associated pieces of hardware. A novel power takeoff captures the rotational force of the drive shaft. The system requires no changes to powertrain geometry, installs in about 5 hours. A proprietary algorithm operates Blackburn's technology. Proprietary & patent pending
Small fuel cell system with hydrogen cartridge
Energy sources for portable applications using fuel cell technology and safe and reliable hydrogen cartridge.
Highly efficient Silicon Heterojunction Technology for lower LCOE
CEA-INES develops a proprietary heterojunction technology with a demonstrated 2,400 cells/hour production yield and solar cell efficiency performances up to 22.2% with 6†wafers. Bi-facial mode allows modules increasing the production yield in real conditions. CEA-INES has a clear plan for improving efficiency and module power towards 24% and 360W.
Sootless, Alternatively-Fueled Heavy Duty Engine
The ClearFlame Engine simultaneously delivers higher torque, cleaner emissions, and lower fuel costs than current heavy-duty engines, while using inexpensive, renewable fuels. This means heavy-duty vehicles and off-grid/backup generators can continue providing benefits to industry and quality of life, while avoiding the hazardous pollution and petroleum-dependence of current engines.
Poseidon Power
Two disruptive hydro solutions. 1) Active Water solution produces electricity at low head dams. 2) Passive Water solutions produce electricity without a dam on any shoreline without limitations of traditional hydro. Scaling and gating allow production to meet energy demands. More cost effective, reliable,less capital intensive. Environmentally friendly.
Thermal Energy Storage for Commercial and Industrial Natural Gas Efficiency
High temperature thermal energy storage system, which stores heat energy in combined heat and power plants. The novel sulfur-based thermal storage media allows for a compact, single-tank, low cost design.
Daytona Beach, FL
Phase-change Material Wall Insulation
A novel insulation design utilizing phase-change materials.
Snow Removal for Northern Solar Panel Operation
This technology addresses the issues involved with solar energy in regions with large amounts of snowfall and create a product by which to automatically remove snow from the surface of solar panels.
Ames, IA
Sustainable and Smart Solar Power-Controlled Apparel
A garment prototype that integrates flexible solar products for optimal solar power control and energy harvesting is developed.
Web-based Tool to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Coal Power Plants
This technology aims to increase public awareness of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for energy production and how emissions can be lowered by co-firing biomass in power plants. The innovative web-based expert decision support system includes integrated models that captures the trade-offs between operational costs and GHG emissions.
A Novel Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier
This is a Wave Energy Converter(WEC) prototype embedded with a mechanical structure that we call the Mechanical Motion Rectifier(MMR), this structure can largely increase the efficiency of its power take-off(PTO) that extracts power from water waves.
10,000 VOLTS DIAMOND-BASED HIGH POWER HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY AND DEFENSE NEEDS
Current state-of-art single die high power silicon device technology has limits in the range 1000 Volts and 100 Amperes. Next generation low-loss electronics requires new materials to overcome these challenges. We propose novel diamon-based power transistors with 10000 Volts breakdown voltage, 100 A/cm2 current density, and lowest specific-on-resistance.
A Better Fuel Injector for Jet engines and Gas Turbines
FGC Plasma Solutions is working on a better fuel injector that incorporates plasma to better control combustion in jet engines and gas turbines.By reducing fuel consumption during idling, savings of between 1-5% are possible. This technology will also enable benefits from lower emissions; increased fuel flexibility; and improved reliability.
Solar Cell Technology
Presented is a technique capable of recycling a substrate using a nanostructure, a dielectric layer and a resin layer to manufacture a solar cell, using the separation plate to prepare a solar cell. By using the electroless etching method, it is possible to manufacture a solar cell efficiently and effortlessly.
LITHIUM ACCUMULATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR ENERGY STORAGE
HE3DA MAKES 1KWH - 100KWH CELLS FOR LARGE ENERGY STORAGE MODULES
Electronic Power-Measurement Device with Intelligent Agent
An electronic power-measurement device with intelligent agent includes a power measurement unit, an intelligent agent and a communication unit. The device can commonly assess data necessary for works, as an intelligent agent is mounted on the electronic power-measurement device, although the manufacturers are different from each other.
Method for improvement of conductivity of molybdenum film by electron-beam irradiation
Method for manufacturing solar cell aiming at improvement of conductivity of molybdenum rear electrode thereof - A method for improvement of the conductivity of a molybdenum film, which is the rear electrode, by reducing the resistivity and thickness thereof
Manufacturing Technology of Ultra-thin Fibrous Heat-Resistant Membrane for Secondary Battery
Heat-resistant ultra-thin fibrous membrane technology that has shut-down function, excellent heat-resistance and ion permeability to have excellent charging & discharging characteristics.
Solid State Li-ion Battery IP Bundle
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Argonne National Lab, and Oak Ridge National Lab are joining forces to pilot a bundle licensing project for IP developed around the solid-state Li-ion batteries.
Nano-scopic coatings that prevent mineral fouling in heat exchangers to increase manufacturing profitability and lower energy use
Nano has developed advanced super-hydrophobic nano-scale coatings to protect heat transfer surfaces in heat exchangers which prevent mineral fouling and subsequent degradation of thermal efficiency. We plan to expand into additional markets where the unique properties of our materials can be leveraged such HVAC, cooling towers and water heaters.
Holey Nanocarbon Architectures for High Performance Li-Air Batteries
NASA scientists have developed high-performance air electrodes using scalable holey nanocarbon platforms for lithium-air batteries (LABs) with ultrahigh energy density for weight savings in energy storage systems [80% compared to state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries]. As a result, improving the capacity, cyclability, rate performance, and scalability to develop practical LABs.
PEM Fuel Cell Bundle (multi-lab IP bundle - LabBridge IP Bundling Program)
29 nine proton exchange membrane fuel cells technologies from five different National Labs are available to form bundles to collectively increase their value proposition for the potential licensees or collaborators. Technologies fall into 4 categories, (i) fuel cell electrocatalysts, (ii) membrane electrode assembly, (iii) fuel processor, and (iv) bipolar plates.
Carbon Fiber Bundle (multi-lab IP bundle - LabBridge IP Bundling Program)
This bundling opportunity showcases a combination of NREL's biological utilization of lignin and metabolic funneling to C-fiber with ORNL's chemical approach to lignin separation and downstream processing to C-Fiber.
Human-friendly distribute energy resource coordination for the electricity industry
Packetized Energy designs and deploys human-friendly systems for coordinating distributed energy resources such as water heaters, EV chargers, and energy storage systems. By coordinating the actions of things that already exist, homes and businesses get smarter, electricity becomes more affordable, and the grid runs more reliably with renewable energy.
Light Activated Hydrogen Energy System
Laser Hydrides fabricated into compact disks sharing similar properties with audio CDs react when exposed to laser light by changes at the molecular level, allowing hydrogen trapped within the disk to be set free, delivered to a fuel cell which powers an electric motor with exhaust of just clean water.
Princeton Field Reversed Configuration (PFRC) Fusion Reactor
The PFRC Nuclear Fusion Reactor is a revolutionary approach to fusion power generation. The reactor is small and clean, producing very few damaging neutrons and enabling rapid development at relatively low cost. The 1-10 MW reactors are suitable for diverse applications, from submarines to urban environments to space propulsion.
Falling Particle Receiver for Concentrated Solar Energy
The falling particle receiver uses sand-like particles that fall through a beam of highly concentrated sunlight focused by an array of mirrors. The particles are heated to temperatures over 700 °C, stored, and used to generate electricity in a power cycle or to create process heat.
PowerAce
This is a method and model for accurate and fast power flow analysis in power systems operation and planning.
Robust Droop Control for Parallel Operated Inverters
This technology provides a modification to the conventional droop control systems that is able to handle system disturbances to allow accurate proportional load sharing among parallel-operated inverters.
Three Dimensional Kinetic Generator
This technology has the capability to charge mobile/portable devices on the go and as many times as needed because it generates electrical energy from motion.
Multiâ€functional transparent nanoâ€coating for glass
This coating is featured by super-hydrophilic self-cleaning property, thermal insulation property and photocatalysis property. With contact angle of less than 5°, the coating can block over 70% IR/90% UV light but transmits more than 70% of visible light. It can also break down organic pollutants.
Efficient Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Graphene Electrodes
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has successfully developed efficient and low-cost semitransparent perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes. The power conversion efficiencies of this novel invention are around 12% when they are illuminated from both sides.
Smart restorative coating from two-sided flat nanoparticles
Flat nanoparticles with two functionally different sides(sticky/slick) form functional friction reducing and wear reversing films during normal operation of mechanisms. Wide applicability in mission-critical applications ranging from improving performance and longevity of gearboxes, engines, and firearm barrels to heterogeneous catalysts and drug delivery.
An Energy Reducing, Green HVAC Simple Drop-in Refrigerant Replacement
Our made in USA Alltemp HVAC simple drop-in refrigerant replacement reduces electricity consumption of cooling equipment 10-40%, seals system, helps equipment operate more efficiently reducing maintenance costs.
The Wave energy system that cappture ocean power to create renewable electricity
The Twin Ocean Power device is a new technology designed to create clean reusable energy which captures the power of the ocean waves to create a source of electricity more efficiently. This device is very simple to build with low production cost and has long lasting and easy maintenance
A Method and Device for Secure, High-density Tritium Bonded with Carbon
INL created novel method and device for secure, high-density storage of tritium. The high-density tritium is bonded with carbon by irradiating an intercalated precursor into tritium bonded with carbon in a substrate. Existing solutions to safely secure tritium result in low-density tritium, minimizing tritium’s potential as significant energy source.
Metabolic Engineering of Anaerobic Fungal Pathways for the Production of Biofuels and Antimicrobial Compounds
A method of manipulating metabolic networks and pathways within anaerobic gut fungi for their use in the production of novel polyketide synthases (PKSs).
