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Gas Detection Camera for Potentially Explosive Atmospheres
Workers can use the FLIR GFx320 to assess potential risks from afar instead of scanning for fugitive and non-fugitive gas emissions from outside hazardous areas.
Mars Rover Prototype Delivered for Tests
The robotic rover will be used as part of the second phase of ExoMars to follow up studies exploring the possibility of life on Mars.
Water Affordability in the U.S.
Analysis underscores a possible affordability crisis in which an estimated 11.9% of U.S. households (13.8 million households) could find current water prices unaffordable.
Emissions from Heavy Duty Natural Gas-Fueled Vehicles
Methane emissions from heavy-duty natural gas-fueled and associated fueling stations were characterized.
NASA Finds a Greener Way to Clean Pipes and Tubing
A volatile organic compound-free system for cleaning tubing and piping substitutes deionized water for more costly isopropyl alcohol.
Expanding Low Cost, Low Head Hydropower
Low impact turbines generate power using a cascade of smaller dams with low head drops as opposed to one large dam.
Algorithm That Plots Fuel Savings for PHEVs
Connected vehicle technology and evolutionary algorithms combine to make plug-in hybrid vehicles more efficient.
The Emergence of Facial Recognition Technology
To combat the bias and accuracy issues inherent in the face recognition technology, researchers, algorithm developers, and even law-enforcement agencies are taking a multipronged approach that emphasizes training and testing.
Conductive Concrete: A Key Element in any Lightning Protection Solution
The concept of low resistance path to earth is fundamental to electrical theory and practice. When designing and installing electrical systems, proper grounding is a necessity.
Electrical Submersible Pump Passes Live Well Test
The installation of ESP, deployable through 3/5-in tubing, took place in a well in California well, and included full wellhead termination and pump operation.
Pump Delivers Drug Doses Over Time
The pump works by releasing a drug into a patient’s body over time, overcoming the problems that some patients have complying with a schedule of injections.
Wave Pool Technology Set for Debut
The new technology can deliver waves of up to 6.9 feet that cross the pool for 18 seconds.
NASA: Jet Propulsion by Hummingbird
A new engine design allows for distributed propulsion as well as subsonic to high supersonic flight with the same flowpath.
Manufacturing Medical Microdevices with iMEMS
A new technique stacks hydrogels in layers to make devices that have 3-D, freely moving parts.
Patients Guided by Smart Pharma Packaging
Instructions delivered by an avatar could improve patient compliance with drug and device regimens.
Discovering Sources of Upstream Water Contamination
Methodology arms water system operators with ways to avoid or effectively handle upstream chemical spill incidents.
Nanowires Remove Indoor CO Threat
Nanowires remove carbon monoxide from enclosed spaces with a 100% conversion efficiency at room temperature.
Carbon Capture on a Commercial Scale
The largest post-combustion carbon capture system installed to-date on an existing coal-fired power plant is now on-line near Houston, TX.
3D Scanning Speeds Assembly Line Changeovers
University researchers are collaborating with a team at Volkswagen AG to streamline production line changeovers from one auto model to another.
The Moon May Be Older Than We Thought
Research suggests that the moon formed “only” about 60 million years after the birth of the solar system.