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2021-194 GASEOUS HYDROCARBON SELF-CATALYZING SOLAR REFORMING AND SOLID CARBON DEPOSITION
SUMMARY: UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a method for green hydrogen production through high flux solar heating and a porous substrate. BACKGROUND: With populations rising and the search for more sustainable sources of energy accelerating, hydrogen has been touted as a desirable sustainable...
Published: 7/19/2023   |   Inventor(s): Timothy Fisher
Keywords(s): Concentrated Solar Power Chemical Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Energy Generation & Storage, Energy Generation, Transmission, or Storage, Environmental Remediation, Functional Materials, Hydrogen, Methane, Methane Reformer, Methane Reformer Hydrogen Production, Renewable Energy, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Thermal Energy Storage
Category(s): Mechanical, Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency
Fast, Economical, and Convenient Heavy Metal Contamination Detection
Technology Description This technology describes an accurate, inexpensive, simple, and portable membrane-based lateral flow fluidic device, made with both patented and patent pending technologies, to detect copper at concentrations as low as 0.5 ppm. No pre-treatment of the raw sample is needed. With simple modifications, this method can be adapted...
Published: 1/16/2023   |   Inventor(s): Gayan Bandara, Christopher Heist, Vincent Remcho
Keywords(s): Chemical Reaction Process, Diagnostic, Environmental Remediation, Manufacturing, Microchannel
Category(s): Device, Chemistry, Diagnostics, Nanoscience & Microtechnologies, Research Tools
Low-cost and Low-power Radiation Spectrometer
Technology Description The gamma ray spectrometer works by detecting gamma-rays from the surrounding area and generating an energy spectrum based on the readings. A mobile phone can access the device wirelessly in order to display the data. It possesses different modes that allow for low power operation. As a result of being inexpensive and compact,...
Published: 1/16/2023   |   Inventor(s): Abdollah Farsoni, Eric Becker
Keywords(s): Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Emergency Procedures, Environmental Remediation, Homeland Security, National Nuclear Security, National Security, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Power Engineering, Radiation Detection, Radiation Health Physics, Radiation Protection, Special Nuclear Materials
Category(s): Software