Innovation Gateway is responding to a recent Department of Energy (DOE) call for SBIR/STTR/FOA topics, by providing that agency with a list of inventions developed at UGA in seven areas:
- Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (includes Agricultural and Plant Sciences)
- Fossil Energy
- Energy Sciences
- High Energy Physics
- Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Nonproliferation
See detailed listed below.
In order to give opportunity to the greatest number of faculty members to be represented in this call, we are requesting that investigators working in any of these areas file an invention disclosure with Innovation Gateway. The only requirements are (1) the work leading to the invention was funded by a federal agency and (2) the invention has not been the subject of a public disclosure or, if it was, the disclosure took place no more than 6 months before it is disclosed to Innovation Gateway. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. on August 8, 2016.
Download Innovation Gateway’s disclosure form and instructions. Please be sure to include the name(s) of the subarea(s) below that correspond to your technology on the disclosure form.
Questions: contact Gennaro Gama, gjg@uga.edu, or Cheryl Junker, junkercl@uga.edu.
Targeted Topics List
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
- Advanced grid technologies
- Intelligent devices and methods applicable to energy grid
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (includes Agricultural and Plant Sciences)
- Advanced manufacturing technologies (Petroleum refining; natural gas, energy-water nexus, materials and catalysts)
- Bioenergy (Biomass conversion systems, liquefaction of wet organic waste streams, supercritical fluids, co-utilization of CO2 and CH4 to produce biofuels and other chemicals)
- Energy efficient solid-state lighting
- Programmable lighting devices
- Sensing and managing indoor air quality
- Fuel cells (High activity, durable, low cost and low-to-no Pt content electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells)
- H2 safety sensors
- Magneto caloric materials
- Solar energy (control systems, energy sharing tools, development tools)
- Vehicles (electric drive batteries, SiC MOSFET, Variable compression ratio/variable stroke IC engines, alternative crank mechanisms)
- Water (very low head turbine generator technologies)
- Wind (Offshore wind resource technologies)
- Intelligent devices for monitoring and controlling residential energy consumption
Fossil Energy
- Clean coal
- Oil and gas (improving hydraulic fracture diagnostic, reduction of methane emissions)
Energy Sciences
- Technologies for improvement of energy production (any source) and cost reduction
- Energy distribution
High Energy Physics
- Particle accelerators (advanced concepts and technologies)
- Radio-frequency accelerator technologies
- Laser technology for accelerators
- Superconductor technologies for particle accelerators
- High energy physics detectors
- Plasma technologies (all subareas)
Nuclear Energy
- Sensors and instrumentation
- Fuel production
- Modeling and simulation
- Non-destructive examination of materials
- Heat exchangers based on supercritical CO2
- Cybersecurity technologies for nuclear energy safety
- Handling of nuclear waste, including technologies and data analysis systems
Nuclear Nonproliferation
- Alternative radiological sources
- International safeguards (instrumentation for fast neutron analysis, instruments for Gamma Ray imaging)
- New technologies for Scintilators and other detection systems
- Monitoring of nuclear explosions (radionuclide detection, x-ray/gamma ray bursts, aerosol collection, seismic and infra-sound detection)
- Microscopy techniques
- Remote sensing technologies