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FLC Awards Archive
— 1996
Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer
Department
of Energy
Ames
Laboratory
Thomas Lograsso
For the development of Materials Referral System
Hotline and the manufacturing Technical Assistance
Program.
Argonne
National Laboratory
R.B. Poeppel, J.E. Emerson, S.A.
Johnson, U. Balachandran
For developing an efficient new process to produce
commercial quantities of pure high-temperature
superconductors with superior properties at
40% of the cost of conventional processes.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Ronald G. Musket, Jeffrey D. Morse
For development of a field-emission cathode
for a high-performance, low c-cost flat-panel
display.
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Bruce Wienke
For his efforts to make the supercomputing resources
of Los Alamos available to U.S.-owned businesses.
Irving Bigio
For the development of laser - and nonlaser
- based biomedical devices that are now undergoing
clinical trails.
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
Gregory Glatzmaier, Kent Scholl,
Mark Anselmo, Rasit Doc
For making silicon carbide powder by carbon-coating
silica for sintering high-performance ceramic
parts.
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
Barbara S. Hoffheins, Robert J.
Lauf
For conceiving and demonstrating a simple thick
film hydrogen sensor and commercializing the
products to manufacture it.
Roddie R. Judkins, David P. Stinton
For developing a high-temperature ceramic composite
candle filter for removal of hot coal ash and/or
char from gases prior to entry into a gas turbine.
Ogbemi Omatete, Claudia Walls
For developing the gelcasting process for making
complex shapes in advanced ceramic materials.
Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory
Donald E. Rasmussen, Gerald P.
Morgen, Leslie J. Kirihara
For developing and transferring an automated
tool profile grinding machine, significantly
improving Freeborn Tool Company's position in
the international machine tool industry.
John D. Affinito, Mark E. Gross,
Laura J. Silva
Transferred a vacuum process for manufacturing
lithium polymer batteries
Mike Brambley, Dave Chassin, Rich
Quadrel
For development of a new, widely usable software
for energy-efficeicnt design.
Pittsburgh
Energy Technology Center
Wu-Wey Wen, Richard P. Killmeyer
For the development of the GranuFlow process
for improved fine coal de-watering and reconstitution.
Sandia
National Laboratories
Peter Boissiere
For the development of software for remediation
applications where the retrieval of hazardous
materials precluded the productive use of humans.
Savannah
River Technology Center
Terry C. Hazen, Brian B. Looney,
John C. Corey
For in-place break down and removal of chlorinated
solvents in subsurface water and sediments by
natural-gas injection and air stripping.
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