The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced up to $35 million for 24 projects to support...
Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Decarbonization
February 8, 2018
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- AMO Selects 24 Projects to Fuel Domestic Manufacturing
- DOE Launches Competition to Spur Onshore Manufacturing of Energy Technologies
- WEBINAR: High Performance Computing for Manufacturing
- SLAC Scientists Investigate How Metal 3-D Printing Can Avoid Producing Flawed Parts
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Creates Fidget Spinner the Width of a Human Hair
AMO Selects 24 Projects to Fuel Domestic Manufacturing
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced up to $35 million for 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing.
Successful projects will reduce the technical uncertainty and develop new knowledge associated with potential breakthrough materials, processes and tools for U.S. manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency.
Learn more about this announcement.
DOE Launches Competition to Spur Onshore Manufacturing of Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the opening of the American Inventions Made Onshore (AIM Onshore) prize competition and the availability of DOE’s Build4Scale manufacturing training.
DOE is searching for four AIM Onshore winners to deliver the Build4Scale training to innovators around the country to help ensure that energy technologies invented in the United States are manufactured in the United States.
Interested organizations are encouraged to apply by April 10, 2018.
WEBINAR: High Performance Computing for Manufacturing – Feb. 12
The Advanced Manufacturing Office’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program is hosting an informational webinar on Monday, February 12th at 11 am PST/2 pm EST. A second webinar will take place on Tuesday, February 20th.
The webinars will provide more information about the open HPC4Mfg solicitation. HPC4Mfg provides manufacturers access to the national laboratories' high performance computing capabilities to apply state-of-the-art modeling, simulation, and data analysis to address manufacturing challenges.
View the solicitation and submission instructions here. Concept papers are due by March 15, 2018.
SLAC Scientists Investigate How Metal 3-D Printing Can Avoid Producing Flawed Parts
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists from the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Ames Laboratory, are using X-ray light to observe and understand how the process of making metal parts using 3-D printing can leave flaws in the finished product – and discover how those flaws can be prevented. The study aims to help manufacturers decrease manufacturing costs by efficiently building more reliable parts on the spot.
The research was funded by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office.
Click here to learn more about the metal 3-D printing project.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Creates Fidget Spinner the Width of a Human Hair
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Center for Nanophase Material Sciences(CNMS) recently 3-D printed the world’s smallest fidget spinner! At 100 microns wide—or roughly the width of a human hair—these scientists used a laser to convert a liquid to a solid, then shaving off microscopic pieces to construct the miniature device.
Watch the video above to see exactly how this fidget spinner was created.