New Mexico
NEW MEXICO
Company:
CPFD Software, LLC
10899 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Suite B
Albuquerque, NM 87111-3935
Title:
Hybrid CPU-GPU Parallel Development of the Eulerian-Langrangian Barracuda Multiphase Program.
Summary:
Accelerating computational power from a commercial engineering software tool (Barracuda) can help designers optimize fossil power plants and develop gasification reactors for coal and biomaterial, while reducing greenhouse gases.
Company:
Deep Web Technologies, LLC
301 North Guadalupe, Ste 201
Santa Fe, NM 87501-5501
Title:
Automating Scalability of Federated Search in a Cloud Computing Environment
Summary:
This project will demonstrate that cloud computing, a technology promoted by the Obama administration, is well suited for enhancing today's scientific search technology. Enhancements include enabling more efficient and effective research and widening the research net to include foreign language content translated to the researcher's native language.
Company:
Manhattan Isotope Technology LLC
Cardiac 228 Maple Drive
Los Alamos, NM 87544-1571
Title:
A New Evaluation of Recycling of the Imaging Agent, Strontium-82, from spent Strontium-82/Rubidium-82 Generators
Summary:
There is currently a shortage of medical radioisotopes in North America. This project will allow the supply of the active pharmaceutical ingredient strontium-82. Strontium-82, is used for diagnosis of cardiac maladies such as coronary artery disease.
Company:
NumerEx, LLC
2309 Renard Place SE, Ste 220
Albuquerque, NM 87106-4259
Title:
A Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Capability for Liner Compression of Field Reversed Configurations
Summary:
This project will develop a three dimensional computer modeling capability to help guide an innovative experiment that will collapse an aluminum tube a little larger than two soda cans placed end to end on a hot, magnetized, gas in twenty millionths of second to attempt to create fusion in a laboratory.
Company:
Research Applications Corporation
148 Piedra Loop
Los Alamos, NM 87544-3837
Title:
ePLAS Development for Plasma Jet Modeling and Applications
Summary
This project will apply, improve and disseminate a unique, tested computer simulation code, ePLAS, for plasma jet modeling, creating an optimal path toward the production of hot, dense plasmas for the mastery of controlled fusion power for the nation.
Company:
Rocky Mountain Geophysics, Inc.
167 Piedra Loop
Los Alamos, NM 87544-3836
Title:
Development of Mine Explosion Ground Truth Smart Sensors
Summary:
This project will develop a seismo/acoustic smart sensor system to be used to transmit accurate ground truth information (location, origin time, magnitude) from mining regions to improve U.S. nuclear explosion monitoring capabilities. The system will be compact, inexpensive, simple to deploy and capable of autonomous operation for periods of up to six months.
Company:
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
1570 Pacheco Street, Suite E-11
Santa Fe, NM 87505-3993
Title:
Instrumentation for Measurement of Atmospheric Nitric Acid
Summary:
Understanding the effects of atmospheric constituents on climate requires highly sensitive field measurements, yet current instrumentation is inadequate to provide the detailed information necessary. This project will develop a compact, rugged, low cost optical sensor platform for airborne measurement of nitric acid and other important atmospheric trace gases.
Company:
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
1570 Pacheco Street, Suite E-11
Santa Fe, NM 87505-3993
Title:
Robust Spectrometer for Carbon Isotope Ratio Measurements
Summary:
This project will develop an improved measurement technology that is needed to better characterize the exchange and transformation of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
Company:
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
1570 Pacheco Street, Suite E-11
Santa Fe, NM 87505-3993
Title:
Self-calibrating Balloon-Borne Methane Gas Sensor
Summary:
Understanding the effects of atmospheric constituents on climate requires highly sensitive field measurements, yet current instrumentation is inadequate to provide the detailed information necessary. This project will develop a compact, rugged, low cost optical sensor platform for airborne measurement of nitric acid and other important atmospheric trace gases.
Company:
STAR Cryoelectronics, LLC
25 Bisbee Ct., Ste. A
Science Santa Fe, NM 87508-1338
Title:
Advanced STJ-based X-Ray Spectrometer for Synchrotron Applications
Summary:
This project will develop an advanced X-ray spectrometer based on an array of superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) detectors for synchrotron science applications. The nextgeneration X-ray spectrometer design will be cryogen-free with automated controls to simplify and streamline operation. The turn-key instrument will be easily mountable to beamlines at synchrotron facilities.
Company:
TechSource, Inc.
190 Central Park Square, Suite 213
Los Alamos, NM 87544-0988
Title:
Improvements to Simulation Codes for Electron Cloud Generation in Long-Bunch, High-Intensity Proton Accumulator Rings
Summary:
This project undertakes the development of improved simulations codes for modeling the electron cloud generation in high intensity proton accumulator rings. These tools will aid in the understanding and mitigation of electron cloud effects in these machines.
Company:
ThermoDynamic Films
7224 General Kearny Ct. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109-6304
Title:
Post-Peltier Thermoelectric Cooling
Summary:
This project will develop post-Peltier thermoelectric coolers that have the potential to be less expensive and more efficient than conventional thermoelectric devices. The thin-film format of this new technology permits low-cost manufacturing techniques and engenders countless new applications that would be impossible with current technologies.
Company:
Vista Photonics, Inc.
67 Condesa Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508-8136
Title:
Atmospheric Methane Analyzer
Summary:
This project will develop a cost-effective field deployable sensor to monitor atmospheric concentrations of the critical greenhouse gas methane. It will have significant advantages when compared to existing technology.
Company:
Vista Photonics, Inc.
67 Condesa Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508-8136
Title:
Isotope Hygrometer for in situ Subsurface Characterization
Summary:
This project will develop an isotope analyzer that can determine the isotope composition of liquid water samples. It will allow tracing the transport and dispersion of contaminants in the subsurface.
Company:
Vista Photonics, Inc.
67 Condesa Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508-8136
Title:
Trace Carbon Monoxide Analyzer
Summary:
This project will develop a field deployable sensor to monitor atmospheric concentrations of the critical indirect greenhouse gas carbon monoxide. It will have significant advantages when compared to existing technology.
Company:
Voss Scientific, LLC
418 Washington Street SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-2811
Title:
Hybrid Modeling of Plasma Jet Transport, Merging and Liner Formation
Summary:
A high-fidelity computer model is being developed to support the fusion energy program. The simulation techniques will enable a rigorous study of an array of powerful plasma jets converging radially inward to compress a fusion target.
