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Cooper, Charlie

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DOE OSTI2020

E-Beam Destruction of Contaminants in Water

Next-generation electron beam (E-beam) technology creates the potential to treat the complex and difficult waste streams of today and tomorrow. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory brings 50 years of groundbreaking E-beam experience across technology research, innovation, and application to unlocking this potential from a capacity and cost perspective using proprietary Lab intellectual property. Fermilab’s technology will deliver a high throughput, portable, scalable, and cost-effective solution to a wide variety of contaminants. Potential applications include contaminants of increasing health, regulatory, economic, and public relations concerns.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2019

Radiabeam Industrial Accelerator Commissioning

Radiabeam is building an industrial accelerator funded by the Defense Nuclear Detection Office in the Department of Homeland Security. The accelerator is designed as a radiation source for systems intended to find Special Nuclear Materials or contraband in cargo containers. Fermilab staff will travel to Radiabeam to help in commissioning of the accelerator. This work would primarily be focused on optimization of beam dynamics. In doing this, Fermilab would gain valuable general information about industrial linac operation and commissioning. Fermilab will also gain specific information about this new accelerator in support of a planned larger collaboration with Radiabeam.

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DOE OSTI2019

Conceptual Design of an Electron Accelerator for Bio-Solid Waste Treatment.

Several studies have identified electron beam (EB) irradiation of municipal wastewater and bio-solids as an effective and promising approach to the environmental remediation of the enormous quantities of human waste created by a growing world-wide population and increased urbanization. However, despite the technical success of experimental and pilot programs over the last several decades, the technique is still not in commercial use anywhere in the world. In addition, the report also identifies the need for “Financial and infrastructure participation from a utility for demonstration project” and “Education and awareness of safety of utilizing electron beam technology” as two additional roadblocks preventing technology adoption of EB treatment for bio-solids. In this concept design, we begin to address these barriers by working with Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) and by the applying the latest accelerator technologies developed at Fermilab and within the DOE Office of Science laboratory complex.

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DOE OSTI2018

Destruction of Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs)

PFCs Extent of Problem: Widely used in aerospace, automotive, building and construction, electronics, and consumer products; found in tap water of over 15 M Americans; detectable levels in blood of 96% of those tested; and linked to public health issues like cancer; EPA health advisory of 70 parts per trillion.

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DOE OSTI2018

Presentation for ISTC and ISWS [Slides]

Currently we are integrating multiple new technologies to create a compact, portable, high power, high reliability electron beam platform accelerator; We are concurrently developing applications for this compact accelerator.

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DOE OSTI2018

Application of Novel Electron Beam Accelerator for Treatment of Military Contaminants

➢ Electron beams have shown promise across a range of industrial applications from wastewater treatment to materials processing to advanced manufacturing. ➢ Electron beam processing can be used to either break down unwanted contaminants or to link together different materials ➢ The overall process is cost effective, environmentally friendly and has short processing times.

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DOE OSTI2017

Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) [Slides]

There have been and will continue to be new technologies developed in the pursuit of basic science. (Accelerators, Detectors, Magnets, Computing); IARC is focused on developing accelerator based technologies to the point where they are attractive to industry; Through IARC we can leverage Fermi’s human capital, facilities and technologies; We believe that the technologies we are developing at IARC will enable new fields and demonstrate Fermi’s impact, beyond basic discovery science, on the nation’s health, security and wealth.

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NASA NTRS2013

Ongoing Development of a Series Bosch Reactor System

Future manned missions to deep space or planetary surfaces will undoubtedly require highly robust, efficient, and regenerable life support systems that require minimal consumables. To meet this requirement, NASA continues to explore a Bosch‐based carbon dioxide reduction system to recover oxygen from CO2. In order to improve the equivalent system mass of Bosch systems, we seek to design and test a "Series Bosch" system in which two reactors in series are optimized for the two steps of the reaction, as well as to explore the use of in situ materials as carbon deposition catalysts. Here we report recent developments in this effort including assembly and initial testing of a Reverse Water‐Gas Shift reactor (RWGSr) and initial testing of two gas separation membranes. The RWGSr was sized to reduce CO2 produced by a crew of four to carbon monoxide as the first stage in a Series Bosch system. The gas separation membranes, necessary to recycle unreacted hydrogen and CO2, were similarly sized. Additionally, we report results of preliminary experiments designed to determine the catalytic properties of Martian and Lunar regolith simulant for the carbon deposition step.

Abney, Morgan↗