Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS
Company:
Machflow Energy, Inc.
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610-1400
Topic:
Advanced Building Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Thermal Load Shifting, and Cool Roofs
Title:
Recovery Act - Development of a Novel Air Conditioning and Refrigeration System Based on Bernoulli Effect, with Zero Direct Greenhouse Impact.
Summary:
Machflow Energy, Inc. develops novel air conditioning and refrigeration technology that can be used for residential, commercial, and automotive cooling. Cooling systems built around the technology will be light, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly by using a refrigerant with no global warming potential, no effect on the ozone layer, and that is nontoxic.
Company:
Nanotrons Corporation
12A Cabot Road
Woburn, MA 01801-1003
Topic:
Advanced Building Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Thermal Load Shifting, and Cool Roofs
Title:
Recovery Act - Nano-Enabled TiO2 UV Protective Layer for Cool-Color Roofing Application
Summary:
Company:
Nanotrons Corporation
12A Cabot Road
Woburn, MA 01801-1003
Topic:
Water Usage in Electric Power Production and Industrial Processes
Title:
Recovery Act - Carbon Nanotube Based Water Purification
Summary:
Nano-Enabled TiO2 UV Protective Layer for Cool-Color Roofing Application Water quality is an issue that affects industry, drinking water and the third world. Nanotrons proposes a water filter that can process water 100 times faster than the best technology available today. The implications for desalination of sea water and purification of polluted water around the globe is enormous.
Company:
Physical Sciences Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077
Topic:
Advanced Gas Turbines and Materials
Title:
Recovery Act - Advanced Laser Machining Techniques for Cooling Holes in Gas Turbines
Summary:
Physical Science Inc. proposes to develop high speed water guided laser drilling for cooling holes in high temperature metallic alloys used in gas turbine systems. Current hole drilling technologies produce cooling holes with plus or minus 10 percent air flow variation from hole to hole. This variation requires designers to provide extra holes and extra cooling flow. This compensation results in an excess consumption of cooling air and inordinate cooling in some areas. The novel PSI approach will control hole-to-hole variation to plus or minus 2 percent, permit more complex cooling hole shapes, and allow for more precise location of cooling holes on turbine airfoils. The benefits of the PSI water guided laser drilling technique will allow a more judicious use of cooling air while at the same time provide for better gas turbine airfoil cooling. These attributes will allow gas turbines to run at higher temperatures and consequently more efficiently. PSI will work with leading turbine manufactures (GE, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce) to ensure manufacturing relevance and performance.
Company:
Wilson TurboPower, Inc.
20 Commerce Way, Suite 200
Woburn, MA 01801-1057
Topic:
Advanced Gas Turbines and Materials
Title:
Recovery Act - Large Silicon Nitride Blisks for High-Efficiency Gas Turbines
Summary:
Wilson TurboPower, Inc., in Woburn, MA, is developing a low emissions, breakthrough-efficiency gas turbine engine to enable economic small-scale generation of electricity from many kinds of fuel, including bio-fuels. The technology is also readily adapted to Brayton cycle engines that can be used in concentrated solar power applications.
Company:
Spectral Sciences, Inc.
4 Fourth Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803-3304
Topic:
Sensors, Controla, and Wireless Network
Title:
Recovery Act - Real-time Remote Detection of HR-VOC Content in Flares
Summary:
Incomplete combustion of natural gas in oil refinery flares releases hazardous organic compounds into the air, posing serious risks to the environment and public health. A sensor for real-time monitoring and control of flare combustion efficiency is being developed to mitigate the release of these chemicals into the environment.
Company:
Resolute Marine Energy, Inc.
3 Post Office Square - 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02109-3905
Topic:
Advanced Water Power Technology Development
Title:
Recovery Act - Variable-Geometry Oscillating Wave Surge Converter for Utility-Scale Electricity Production
Summary:
Resolute Marine Energy has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to develop an innovative wave energy converter that will speed utilization of our nation's abundant marine renewable energy resources while contributing to U.S. electric power needs, improving energy security and mitigating the effects of climate change.
Company:
Coincident, Inc.
12 Reservoir Avenue
Lakeville, MA 02347-1516
Topic:
Smart Controllers for Smart Grid Applications
Title:
Recovery Act - Multi-Protocol Energy Management Gateway for Home-Area Networks
Summary:
Coincident helps homeowners and small businesses to realize the financial, social, and environment benefits promised by the smart grid through an energy management product that seemlessly integrates all smart appliances and meters into a web-based consumer interface.
Company:
PoroGen Corporation
6 C Gill Street
Woburn, MA 01801-1721
Topic:
Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Title:
Recovery Act - Compact Polymeric Heat Exchanger
Summary:
Lightweight and efficient plastic heat exchanger will be developed by PoroGen Corporation. Improved efficiency and reduced weight will provide for energy savings in chemical process industries, and for fuel savings in aviation and automotive sectors.
Company:
Beam Power Technology, Inc.
5 Rolling Green Lane
Chelmsford, MA 01824-4469
Topic:
Radio Frequency (RF) Devices and Components for Accelerator Facilities
Title:
Recovery Act - Design Studies of Megawatt-Class Continuous-Wave Elliptic-Beam Inductive Output Tubes
Summary:
The goal of this project is to develop a continuous-wave inductive output (IOT) device that satisfies the requirements for high-efficiency, high-power rf sources for current and future synchrotron radiation light sources, free electron lasers, and spallation neutron source user facilities. An innovative elliptic-beam IOT will overcome the power limitation of conventional IOTs while offering the same high efficiency at low voltages.
Company:
Beam Power Technology, Inc.
5 Rolling Green Lane
Chelmsford, MA 01824-4469
Topic:
Radio Frequency (RF) Devices and Components for Accelerator Facilities
Title:
Recovery Act - Development of a Pulsed, 10% Duty 140 kW, 402.5 MHz Elliptic-Beam Inductive Output Tube
Summary:
This project will develop an innovative inductive output tube (IOT) that meets the requirements of high output power. It will overcome the current IOT devices power limitation by use of the company's proprietary elliptic-beam technique while being as efficient as the conventional circular-beam IOT. The successful application of elliptic beams to IOT devices has the potential to open new applications for them in rf amplifier service, where the major advantages of IOT devices can be utilized to reduce hardware and operating costs. These IOTs will facilitate the construction of high-efficiency, high-power rf sources for current and future synchrotron radiation light sources free electron lasers, and spallation neutron source user facilities These efficient, high-power IOTs will also reach the digital television broadcast community where IOTs have been widely used to answer the requirements of high power rf amplification. As a highly efficient device, elliptic-beam IOTs have the potential to replace conventional circular-beam klystrons, circular-beam IOTs and possibly multi-beam high-order-mode IOTs for accelerator applications requiring highly efficient high power RF sources and in areas such as leading edge scientific research and digital TV broadcasting where high power rf amplification is required.
Company:
Micro Magnetics, Inc.
617 Airport Road
Fall River, MA 02720-4722
Topic:
Instrumentation for Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
Title:
Recovery Act - Magnetic Tunnel Junction Nanoprobe Compatible with an Atomic Force Microscope
Summary:
This project will develop a sensitive magnetic tunnel junction nanoprobe sensor which is capable of measuring electromagnetic properties up to gigahertz frequencies with nanometer-scale spatial resolution at ambient conditions. The probe will offer a significant benefit of being compatible with the commercial scanning probe microscopy systems, allowing for rapid dissemination in research community worldwide. This new kind of magnetic sensor would be able to measure weak magnetic fields, such as those created by the microscopic electrical currents in computers and cell phones. This sensor will allow engineers and scientists to better understand nanometer-scale magnetic materials and performance of electrical devices, for the advancement of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
STTR Project
Company:
Incom Inc.
P.O. Box G
Southbridge, MA 01550-0528
Topic:
Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators
Title:
Recovery Act - Development of Photonic Band Gap Structures for Particle Acceleration
Summary:
In this STTR project, Incom, Inc. and its research institution partner, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, attempt to address the ever increasing particle energy and accelerator size needed for High Energy Physics research by proposing a revolutionary approach to develop compact high-gradient inexpensive accelerators using photonic band-gap (PBG) microstructures. This new generation of linear particle accelerator (linac) with a 20-100-fold increase in accelerating gradients relative to copper structures also has the potential to spawn breakthroughs in many other fields including industrial measurement and technology, as well as medical research and diagnostics. The objective of this project is to fabricate PBG structures from borosilicate and fused silica glass. These structures serve as TM01 cavities and couplers when properly driven by lasers, and will allow tests of basic concepts for PBG accelerators.
