NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

The High-Strength, Wear-Resistant Aluminum Alloy is a novel new aluminum-silicon alloy that enables engine manufacturers to make engines that produce more horsepower while emitting less pollutant. The alloy enables optimized designs that require less material, reduce weight and cost, and improve fuel efficiency. Offering significant improvements in tensile strength at elevated temperatures of 450 to 650 °F, the alloy is an ideal low-cost material ...
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Inventors: Jonathan Lee, NASA MSFC and Po Shou Chen, Morgan Research Corporation
Commercialization Assistance: Sammy Nabors, NASA MSFC

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USDA, REE, Agricultural Research Service, Mid-South Area

Modified live vaccines to prevent the major diseases in channel catfish aquaculture--enteric septicemia and columnaris. Both diseases account for as much as 50 % of the total losses to catfish producers (about $50 million annually), and there were no effective methods to prevent the diseases. ...Made by changing the bacteria so it is unable to cause disease but is still able to infect and immunize the fish. The advantage of the two vaccines is the ability to deliver the vaccines by immersion in water to mass quantities of young catfish to provide life long protection.
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Don Nordlund accepts the award on behalf of Drs. Klesius, Shoemaker and Evans. Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves (FLC Southeast Region Coordinator), Don Nordlund (ARS Mid-South Region Technology Transfer Director), and Edward Linsenmeyer, (FLC National Chair).

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A Fertilizer for Alleviation of Nickel Deficiencies

USDA, REE, Agricultural Research Service, South-Atlantic Area
Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory

Real-world Nickel (Ni) deficiency in certain agricultural crops as a consequence of solving an 85-yr-old growth disorder of pecan, termed "Mouse-ear" (a severe growth disorder becoming increasingly common in old and 2nd generation orchards), which had eluded decades of research by others. ...develop a symptomology to aide diagnosis, took key preliminary steps to develop an efficacious and safe product, and developed and refined protocols for identification and correction of Ni deficiency.
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Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves, Southeast Region Coordinator, Dr. Bruce Wood (inventor), and Edward Linsenmeyer, FLC National Chair.

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NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

KSC was polluted with chlorinated solvents used to clean Apollo rocket parts. Dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) were left untreated in the ground and contaminated the fresh water sources in the area. ...DNAPLs are a common cause of environmental contamination at thousands of DOE, DOD, NASA, and private industry facilities. The EPA has reported that DNAPLs are present at 60% to 70% of all sites on the Superfund National Priorities List. ...Potential uses of EZVI are far reaching, from US government installations like the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, to local dry cleaner programs such as the one currently funded by the State of Florida. Private industry is deemed a potentially significant user of the technology as the government is not the sole owner of chlorinated-solvent groundwater pollution.
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Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves, FLC Southeast Region Coordinator, Dr. Jacqueline Quinn (KSC) inventor), Kathleen Brooks (KSC co-inventor), and Edward Linsenmeyer, FLC National Chair.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Flame Doctor® is a diagnostic system that connects to existing optical flame scanners in pulverized-coal utility boilers and provides a real-time quality assessment for each burner. The limitations of existing coal burner technology make it impossible to monitor and adjust the performance of individual burners, and thus typical plant operation is far from optimal. ...algorithms and methodologies were specifically tailored to deal with complicated nonlinear signals for which traditional statistical or time-series analysis fails.
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Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves (FLC Southeast Region Coordinator), Larry Dickens (Oak Ridge National Laboratory Commercialization Office), Charles Finney (ORNL inventor), Tom Flynn (The Babcock & Wilcox Company), and Edward Linsenmeyer (FLC National Chair).

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Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An optical surveillance system designed to protect high-value items in high security environments. It represents an important new technology with immediate applications for nuclear nonproliferation and homeland security. It is suitable for situations where conventional surveillance systems cannot be used, such as areas where video surveillance has been specifically prohibited and areas where a radio-frequency identification system could trigger an explosion. The LBIMS can also be used in conjunction with conventional surveillance systems as a trigger for those systems.
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Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves (FLC Southeast Region Coordinator), Larry Dickens (ORNL) accepting the award on behalf of the technology development team, and Edward Linsenmeyer (FLC National Chair).

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Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Practical, cost-effective solution to one of the grand challenges in biological research: proteins immobilized on a solid surface lose activity due to denaturation resulting from the hydrophobic nature of many glass and plastic surfaces or due to the steric hindrance of the binding sites caused by covalent binding. Biological samples retain their native chemical activity when mounted on a PETASTM slide. This is because a PETASTM slide has a unique porous coating that provides an environment in which the delicate, complex biological samples deposited in its porous surface to retain their native chemical activity.
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Shown (l-r): Mark Reeves (FLC Southeast Region Coordinator), Dr. Jizhong Zhou (ORNL co-developer), and Edward Linsenmeyer (FLC National Chair).

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Department of Energy Y-12 National Security Complex

Initiated from a request by the US Army to utilize Y-12’s unique capabilities to develop a disaster software package. Y-12 collaborated with ORNL, UT Research Corp. and MCH to develop the software necessary to meet the Army’s needs. ...integrated a diverse set of databases and imagery to achieve an interactive solution for disaster management. RAMSAFE software stores and organizes massive amounts of critical data about a location or special event before an incident happens. ... could reduce human and economic loss by as much as 50% in a biohazard event.
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Shown (l-r): Howard Gordon, Mark Reeves (Southeast Region Coordinator), Himadri Bannerjee, Babs Sachdeva, Keith Stringfellow, Marilyn Giles (Y-12), Bob Poteat, Ray Alfred, Edward Linsenmeyer (FLC National Chair).

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