August 2016 – Creare

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CREARE WINS DOE FUNDING TO FURTHER DEVELOP ITS FUEL PIN CASTING PROCESS

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Future nuclear power plan designs will use large numbers of metallic fuel pins made of uranium alloys, but existing casting methods are slow and costly. Creare has won an SBIR Phase II award from US DOE to continue development of an innovative continuous casting to produce precision metal pins at very low cost. Creare will […]

Creare to Showcase Waste-to-Energy System at US Navy FST

Creare LLC will present an innovative waste-to-energy system at the US Navy’s Forum for SBIR/STTR Transition at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in Lowell, MA on April 10-11, 2019. Creare LLC is developing the system with Cogent Energy Systems under funding with the U.S. Navy. The system is designed to convert up to 4 […]

April 2, 2019

Brayton Cycle Power Generation in Space

A unique aspect about working at Creare is the exciting applications that we encounter on a daily basis. Whether I’m working on a stress analysis or evaluating drag losses, it’s likely to impact a component that could eventually find a home on an aircraft carrier or deep space probe. One of the research interests that […]

March 26, 2019

Measuring Bubbles in Concrete

It’s the most used material in the world. You’ve stepped on it, driven on it, likely poured it, and quite frankly entrust your life to millions of tons of it every day. The essential ingredients of concrete are rocks, cement, and water. But there’s one more that’s just as important – any guesses? Bubbles! Water […]

March 12, 2019

Navigating Small UAV’s

Imagine a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, popularly known as a drone) with a measure of autonomy, capable of obstacle avoidance, dynamic mapping and navigation, and automated takeoff and landing. Larger drones can afford the weight of conventional instruments, whereas smaller drones are unable to. To expand applications and reduce costs for smaller UAVs, added […]

February 26, 2019

An Engineer’s Adventure at Sea

As an R&D engineer at Creare LLC, I have the opportunity to work on some very interesting projects. Recently, I was privileged to spend two weeks on the Pacific Ocean in support of a Creare project internally named “Deep Sea Rankine”. Working with the crew of the research ship R/V Roger Revelle, the remotely operated […]

December 10, 2018

Month: August 2016

CREARE WINS DOE FUNDING TO FURTHER DEVELOP ITS FUEL PIN CASTING PROCESS