National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

Sandia Corporation

Air & Liquid Systems Inc.

Other

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Arizona State University

The University of New Mexico

Carbo Ceramics Inc.

Wausau Tile, Inc.

Solar Fiber Optics, LLC

Sandia Corporation, Operator of Sandia National Laboratories

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National Technology & Engineering of Sandia, LLC

James E Miller

Gordon T Urquhart

John A Shelnutt

Craig J Medforth

Yujiang Song

Eric Nicholas Coker

Andrea Ambrosini

Wen Li

Richard B Diver

Tetsuo Kawamura

Stanley R Mach

Nathan P Siegel

Chad D Cannan

Timothy J Boyle

Yukiyoshi Ueno

Terrence Palisch

Richard Alan Kemp

Kazuo Kawahara

Ivan Ermanoski

Bernadette A Hernandez-Sanchez

Sean Michael Babiniec

Robert D Palumbo

Tochi Tudor Nwoga

Zhongchun Wang

John Muldoon

Tetsuo Nagami

Hiroaki Takahashi

Joseph Cesarano, Iii

Michael A Hickner

Ryan Milcarek

John Nicholas Stuecker

Ellen B Stechel

Frank B Van Swol

Jonathan Douglas Hommes

David D Gill

Karl Walby

Roy Hogan, Jr

Sivakumar R Challa

The present invention relates to a self-contained unit having a system for recovering polymer overspray from a pallet coating process. The self-contained unit includes a common enclosure having at least four walls, a ceiling and a floor. There is a collection tank located below the floor of the common enclosure and a roof platform is located above the ceiling of the common enclosure. Within the common enclosure is at least one spray booth having a waterfall wall with liquid flowing down a face of the waterfall wall to the collection tank. Mounted on the roof platform is a consolidation tank, hydrocyclone and pressure filter that are all part of the system for removing the polymer from the overspray mixture collected at the collection tank.

Pallet coating waste recovery system

A thermochemical labyrinth reactor is disclosed. The reactor has a reoxidation zone and a reduction zone with electric heaters. A recuperation zone connects the reduction and reoxidation zones with first and second channels, the first channel adjoining the second channel, being separated by windows allowing an exchange of thermal radiation between channels while preventing gas exchange. The reactor also includes reactor plates composed of a reactive material, and a transit system running through the three zones, with the transit system configured to shuttle the plates between the reduction zone and the reoxidation zone, moving the plates along a circuit. The reactor also has a feedstock gas emitter to introduce a feedstock gas flowing opposite the movement of the plates. A gas extractor is configured to extract a product gas resulting from the feedstock gas being split by the oxidizing reactive material. All three zones are surrounded by an insulating housing.

Two-step thermochemical labyrinth reactor and methods

Thermochemical storage materials having the general formula AA'BB&#x2032;O, where A=La, Sr, K, Ca, Ba, Y and B=Mn, Fe, Co, Ti, Ni, Cu, Zr, Al, Y, Cr, V, Nb, Mo, are disclosed. These materials have improved thermal storage energy density and reaction kinetics compared to previous materials. Concentrating solar power thermochemical systems and methods capable of storing heat energy by using these thermochemical storage materials are also disclosed.

Redox-active oxide materials for thermal energy storage

Proppant compositions for use in hydraulic fracturing and methods of using same are disclosed herein. The proppant compositions include a plurality of proppant particulates and at least one particulate of the plurality of proppant particulates containing at least one tracer, wherein the at least one tracer separates from the at least one particulate located inside a fracture of a subterranean formation after a period of time.

Proppant compositions and methods of use

Methods for controlling or operating solar thermochemical reactions process that maximize the two-step thermochemical energy cycle efficiency by a combination of pressure and temperature swing are disclosed.

Methods for operating solar-thermochemical processes

A system for recovery of animal byproducts and providing water reuse from an animal processing plant waste stream. In one embodiment of the invention there is an equalization tank forming part of an animal processing plant that is mechanically filtered to recover animal byproducts from a water mixture in the equalization tank. In another aspect of the invention there is a skimmer tank that contains a skimmer mixture with water and animal byproducts. The system mechanically separates the animal byproducts from the skimmer mixture in a manner that is suitable for human consumption. The system also allows the separated water to be reused in the animal processing plant.

Animal byproduct recovery system

A system for consolidating and removing contaminate such as paint sludge or oils from a fluid mixture. A contaminate tank receives a supply of the fluid mixture containing contaminate from a source such as a manufacturing line where overspray of paints or cleaning solutions containing washed away oils are collected. A free floating weir floats on the surface of the contaminate tank and mechanically separates and removes contaminate from a surface of the contaminate tank and concentrates contaminate in a consolidation tank. The free floating weir is equipped with several features that enhance the ability of the free floating weir to remove contaminate without becoming clogged.

Floating chopper sludge weir

The present disclosure is directed to methods using durable functional materials for processes that include an oxidation step. The durable functional materials are redox active oxygen carrier materials that include a zirconia or yttria-stabilized-zirconia (YSZ) matrix containing a redox-active metal ion(s), such as, but not limited to Fe, Mn, Cu, Co and Cr. In an embodiment, these materials are used in chemical looping processes.

Methods utilizing durable functional materials for chemical processes that include an oxidation step

The invention relates to methods of preparing metal particles on a support material, including platinum-containing nanoparticles on a carbon support. Such materials can be used as electrocatalysts, for example as improved electrocatalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM-FCs).

Photocatalytic methods for preparation of electrocatalyst materials

A solar power system and materials capable of storing heat energy by thermochemical energy storage are disclosed. Thermal energy is stored as chemical potential in these materials through a reversible reduction-oxidation reaction. Thermal energy from concentrated sunlight drives a highly endothermic reduction reaction that liberates lattice oxygen from the oxide to form Ogas, leaving energy-rich, oxygen-depleted particles. When desired, the heat is recovered as the particles are re-oxidized in an exothermic reaction upon exposure to air. The system may be integrated with a power generation system to generate power.

Thermal energy storage and power generation systems and methods

A thermal oxidation-reduction cycle is disclosed that uses iron titanium oxide as the reactive material. The cycle may be used for the thermal splitting of water and/or carbon dioxide to form hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide. The formed compounds may be used as syngas precursors to form fuels.

Thermochemically active iron titanium oxide materials

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

James E Miller