Direct air capture technology licensed to Knoxville-based Holocene
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An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air. READ MORE
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New ORNL inventions
202104901?//?Security and Defense
Technologies directed to time series fingerprinting are described.
202104903 //?Energy and Utilities?//?Security and Defense
Technologies directed to spatio-semantic clustering are described.
202205175?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Materials
The technologies provide innovative methods and materials for high-efficiency heating enclosures and appliances.
202205208 //?Manufacturing?//?Materials
This invention demonstrates the strong potential for hybridization of CNF with natural fibers for facile drying and inclusion of the CNF into polymer matrices for high performance composites.
202205239?//?Analytical Instrumentation?//?Manufacturing
The invention provides a low-cost, compact electromechanical, versatile, computer-controlled device that can be fitted inside cryostats, closed-cycle refrigerators, and similar cryogenic devices while carrying multiple samples. The device is meant to save time (including cooling time) and manual labor, minimize the need for a human presence, minimize human error, and increase productivity by minimizing turnaround time. The general concept is versatile and can be adapted easily to a wide variety of existing cryogenic devices.
202205240 //?Manufacturing?//?Materials
The recycling process we proposed here is a modified hydrometallurgy method, which is efficient, facile, low- cost and environmentally friendly. Green organic acid and solvent are only two chemicals needed in the closed-loop recycling process. The organic acid greatly promote the dissolving of cathode materials without reacting with carbon, PVDF, and aluminum foil.?
202305316 //?Chemicals
The inventors have developed bacterial strains that can utilize a common plastic co-monomer as a feedstock. This will help enable modern, petroleum-derived plastics to be converted into value-added chemicals.
202305322?//?Manufacturing?//?Transportation
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The inventors have designed, manufactured, and tested the two-layer structured cathodes with solid polymer electrolytes. The cathodes are designed to have two layers: denser "energy layer" facing the metallic current collector and high porosity/low tortuosity "power layer". The structure is designed to accept variety of electrolytes. When tested with solid polymer electrolyte in lithium metal cells the structured cathodes showed factor of five reduced resistance and 50% higher discharge capacity compared to traditional unstructured cathodes.
202305324?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Materials
The intensified, modular packing device can be used to enhance mass and heat transfer for exothermic or endothermic systems, with the objective to reduce the size required of process equipment, which can lead to significant cost reduction.
202305326 //?Analytical Instrumentation?//?Detectors and Sensors
Silicon photomultiplier-based neutron detectors offer interesting and practical features such as compactness, low operating voltage, output uniformity, compactness, and low cost. Specific optical and electrical components are used to improve its overall performance which includes position and time resolution, higher counting rate, and overall detection capabilities. Other interesting features such the magnetic field insensitivity and better gamma discrimination are important in reflectometry and crystallography applications and could enable innovative avenues of research in pursuit of superior materials and understanding of biological processes involved in human diseases.
202305328 //?Manufacturing?//?Materials
A novel manufacturing method which integrates additive technologies for forming, selective reinforcement and functionalization of thermoformed components. This process includes any incorporation of a printed materials deposited onto a sheet for reinforcement or modified forming behavior. This invention solves issues with limited load bearing thermoformed parts and allows for use of simpler tooling resulting in reduced manufacturing costs.?
202305330?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Transportation
A 3D?design method is proposed for heat sinks, which would allow non-uniform flow along the flow direction while the predecessor design and majority of the conventional designs are extrusion-based design with straight flow path. The method allows better mixing and high extraction which will enable low volume of heat sinks.
202305337?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Transportation
Technologies directed to a rotary transformer with integrated power electronics are described.
202305338?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Transportation
Technologies directed to a resonant tuning network for rotary transformer applications are described.
202305339?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Transportation
Technologies directed to rotor current prediction in rotary transformer applications are described.
202305340?//?Energy and Utilities?//?Transportation
Technologies directed to trace-twisting/transposition-based PCB winding design are described.
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