Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS
Company:
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3976
Topic:
Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
Title:
High Precision C0S Monitor to Constrain the Partitioning of C02 Fluxes
Summary:
This project will develop a novel instrument for carbonyl sulfide which can be used to assess global budgets for CO2 uptake by plants. Measuring global carbon dioxide uptake by vegetation will allow for better understanding of global climate change.
Company:
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3976
Topic:
Atmospheric Measurement Technology
Title:
Development and Characterization of a Compact Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM)
Summary:
This project will develop an instrument with unique capabilities for identifying and measuring the organic precursors of aerosol particles, leading to a better understanding of the sources, transformations, and fates of atmospheric particulate matter which can adversely impact global climate, human health, and visibility.
Company:
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3976
Topic:
Atmospheric Measurement Technology
Title:
Volatility Resolved Measurements of Total Gas-Phase Organic (TGO) Compounds by High Resolution Electron Impact Mass Spectrometry
Summary:
This project will develop an instrument with unique capabilities for identifying and measuring the organic precursors of aerosol particles, leading to a better understanding of the sources, transformations, and fates of atmospheric particulate matter which can adversely impact global climate, human health, and visibility.
STTR Project
Company:
Aerodyne Research, Inc.
45 Manning Road
Billerica, MA 01821-3976
Topic:
Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
Title:
An Absolute C02 Monitor with Extremely High Accuracy
Summary:
This project will design a novel, commercial monitor with unsurpassed accuracy and unique capability to be deployed worldwide. This monitor will accurately measure carbon dioxide across the globe, which will assist the understanding of global climate change.
STTR Project
Company:
Concepts NREC
39 Olympia Avenue
Woburn, MA 01801-2073
Topic:
Advanced Water Power Technology Development
Title:
Development of a Self-Adaptive Air Turbine for Wave Energy Conversion using an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Air System
Summary:
This project will develop a Turbine Shutter Valve and OWC Height control, which will make the utilization of the world’s oceans as a renewable energy resource more economical.
Company:
EIC Laboratories, Inc.
111 Downey Street
Norwood, MA 02062-2612
Topic:
Improved Characterization of Waste in Tanks and Ancillary Piping
Title:
Development of a Compact Fiber Optically Coupled Raman Telescope for the In Situ Standoff Characterization of Residual Wastes
Summary:
This project will develop a fiber optically coupled Raman probe telescope that will be able to detect and identify chemicals at a standoff distance. The telescope Raman probe will be used as a characterization tool for residual wastes in nuclear waste storage tanks.
STTR Project
Company:
EIC Laboratories, Inc.
111 Downey Street
Norwood, MA 02062-2612
Topic:
Improved Characterization of Waste in Tanks and Ancillary Piping
Title:
An Integrated In Situ Raman and Turbidity Sensor for High Level Waste Tanks
Summary:
This project will develop a sensor that can be placed in high level nuclear waste storage tanks to continuously monitor the chemical composition to ensure safe and environmentally compliant operation. This technology will also eliminate the need for expensive, time consuming, and hazardous sampling and laboratory analysis.
Company:
FloDesign Inc.
380 Main Street
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Topic:
Advanced Water Power Technology Development
Title:
MECT, The Next Generation Hydrokinetic Turbine
Summary:
This project will develop a new, novel water turbine technology through extensive laboratory and open water testing. Its performance and structural breakthroughs will assure the economic viability of hydrokinetic water turbines for application in rivers/streams, tidal currents, and ocean currents, thereby helping transform and accelerate this energy sector toward becoming a significant contributor of electricity in the US renewable energy portfolio.
Company:
Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC
89 Rumford Avenue
Newton, MA 02466-1311
Topic:
Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies
Title:
Unitized Design for Home Refueling Appliance for Hydrogen Generation to 5000 psi
Summary:
This project will develop a "unitized" electrolyzer design that can be used as a home refueling appliance and will result in a safe, high efficiency, low capital cost system that will provide competitively-priced hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles.
Company:
MagiQ Technologies
11 Ward Street
Somerville, MA 02143
Topic:
Geothermal Technologies
Title:
Seismic Sensor
Summary:
This project will use ultra-sensitive optical measurement techniques to develop a technique intended to help geologists map the micro-scale tremors of rocks in order to harness geothermal energy.
STTR Project
Company:
NEMOmetrics Corp.
3 Tremont St, Suite 202
Charlestown, MA 02129-3108
Topic:
Increasing Efficiency in Traditional Lighting Technologies
Title:
Lighting with No Watt Left Behind
Summary:
This project will develop inexpensive, easy to install technology that will use lights themselves to detect occupancy, turn off lights, and substantially reduce wastage, eliminating the large amounts of energy consumed and wasted by lighting unoccupied or underoccupied buildings.
Company:
Physical Sciences Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077
Topic:
Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
Title:
Highly Compact CO2 Sensor for Balloon Deployment
Summary:
This program will develop a sensor for routine monitoring of CO2 from balloons and small aircraft. The increase in the accuracy of measurements of various trace species in the atmosphere will allow for better models of global climate change, which in turn could affect policy decisions relating to energy utilization.
STTR Project
Company:
Physical Sciences Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077
Topic:
Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
Title:
Development of a Fieldable Soil Carbon Monitor
Summary:
This project will develop a small, rugged, fieldable monitor for soil carbon. The overall goal of the program is to establish feasibility of a detector that will help assess management strategies for the sequestration of carbon dioxide in soil.
STTR Project
Company:
Physical Sciences Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810-1077
Topic:
Climate Control Technology for Fossil Energy Application
Title:
Networked Sensors for Sequestration MVA
Summary:
This project will develop, test, install, and evaluate laser-based sensors for use as tools to monitor the integrity of carbon dioxide sequestration sites and pipelines. These tools will reduce the cost of site operation and verify that sequestration performs the intended function of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Technology to Support BES User Facilities
Title:
Bright Quantum Dot Scintillator for High Frame Rate Imaging
Summary:
This project will develop a scintillator that will enable advanced research, improved homeland protection, and the rapid, cost-effective development of novel drugs.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Instrumentation for Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
Title:
High Bandwidth Optical Detector for Scanning Probe Microscopy
Summary:
This project will develop a unique instrument that can be used to help characterize and manipulate nanoscale materials. This instrument will be used in areas of scientific study such as renewable energy, cancer detection, and environmental clean-up.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Instrumentation for Materials Research Using Synchrotron Radiation
Title:
Fast, Photon Counting Detector Arrays with Internal Gain
Summary:
This project will investigate a new x-ray radiation detector design that will advance scientific studies, as well as have commercial applications.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Instrumentation for Materials Research Using Synchrotron Radiation
Title:
Low Cost, High Speed, High Sensitivity Detector for Material Science Studies
Summary:
This project will develop a detector that can allow further utilization of advanced photon sources. In addition to unveiling basic functions of biological systems, this development will have a direct impact on important applications, such as baggage scanning and homeland security.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Imaging, Radiochemistry, and Artificial Retina
Title:
Dual Modality Small Animal Imaging
Summary:
This project will develop a promising detector technology which will have a major impact in scientific studies, health care, homeland defense, and oil exploration, as well as have industrial applications.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Imaging, Radiochemistry, and Artificial Retina
Title:
New Detectors for Small Animal SPECT
Summary:
This project will investigate a promising nuclear detector material which will have major impact in scientific studies, medical imaging, homeland defense, and oil exploration, as well as in industrial applications.
Company:
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472-4699
Topic:
Imaging, Radiochemistry, and Artificial Retina
Title:
Next Generation SPECT Detectors
Summary:
This project will continue to develop detector technology for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), a powerful, noninvasive medical imaging modality that mathematically reconstructs the three dimensional distribution of a radionuclide throughout the body of a human patient or research animal.
Company:
Spectral Sciences, Inc.
4 Fourth Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803-3304
Topic:
Energy Savings Technologies for Commodity Manufacturing Industries
Title:
Structured Emission Thermometry Sensor for Burner Control
Summary:
This project will develop an optical sensor that will enable glass furnace and other industrial natural gas burners to automatically adjust and optimize their flames. The smart burner technology promises to make gas-fired industrial furnaces cleaner and more fuel efficient.
Company:
Supercon, Inc.
830 Boston Turnpike
Shrewsbury, MA 01545-3301
Topic:
High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders
Title:
A Modified Internal Tin Tube Nb3Sn Conductor for Higher Non-Copper Critical Current Density
Summary:
This project will increase the performance of Nb3Sn conductors in order to attain the required high magnetic fields utilizing a novel materials approach.
Company:
Tiax, LLC.
35 Hartwell Avenue
Lexington, MA 02140
Topic:
Technologies Related to Energy Storage for Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Title:
Implantation, Activation, Characterization and Prevention/Mitigation of Internal Short Circuits in Lithium-Ion Cells
Summary:
This project will develop technology to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries for PHEVs and HEVs, making these vehicle technologies more commercially viable, and thus increasing the likelihood that they will yield their potential environmental, economic and political benefits.
Company:
Weston Geophysical Corp.
181 Bedford St., Suite 1
Lexington, MA 02420-4430
Topic:
Seismic Signal Analysis
Title:
A Software Toolbox for Systematic Evaluation of Seismometer-Digitizer System Responses
Summary:
This project will develop and test Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that provide seismologists with easy access to software and databases in a system response recovery toolbox that can recover the sensor/digitizer response function from raw seismic data. It can then be easily used by seismologists to monitor the data quality recorded on worldwide seismic networks.
Company:
Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc.
101 Industrial Boulevard
Turners Falls, MA 01376-1611
Topic:
Atmospheric Measurement Technology
Title:
Oxygen A-Band Spectrometer
Summary:
This project will develop a High Resolution Oxygen A-Band Spectrometer which will provide measurements that both validate atmospheric models and calibrate orbiting remote sensors for cloud and aerosol effects. This will reduce the scientific challenge of understanding long-term climate change by being able to precisely measure the scattering properties of clouds and aerosols in our atmosphere.
