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31-Jan-2023
A fresh look at restoring power to the grid
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists have been working on an innovative computer model to help grid operators quickly restore power to the grid after a complete disruption, a process called “black start.”
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
13-Dec-2022
Surveilling carbon sequestration: A smart collar to sense leaks
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories engineers are working on a device that would help ensure captured carbon dioxide stays deep underground — a critical component of carbon sequestration as part of a climate solution.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
15-Nov-2022
Sandia studies vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
With electric vehicles becoming more and more common, the risks and hazards of a cyber attack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Jay Johnson, an electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been studying the varied vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the past four years.
- Journal
- Energies
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
17-Oct-2022
Burping bacteria: Identifying Arctic microbes that produce greenhouse gases
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
As greenhouse gases bubble up across the rapidly thawing Arctic, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are trying to identify other trace gases from soil microbes that could shed some light on what is occurring biologically in melting permafrost in the Arctic.
29-Sep-2022
Propelling wind energy innovation
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. Sandia is now ready to partner with the renewable energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines.
28-Sep-2022
Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Based at Sandia National Laboratories, a team of scientists believes the key to preventing large-scale, catastrophic failures in bridges, airplanes and power plants is to look — very closely — at damage as it first appears at the atomic and nanoscale levels.
- Journal
- Science Advances
16-Aug-2022
Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
In order to design radically new idea offshore wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories engineers first needed to build a design tool capable of modeling the physics vertical-axis wind turbine, or a new "drawing board."
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
9-Aug-2022
“We’ve Got the Power”: Sandia technology test delivers electricity to the grid
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
21-Jul-2022
Sandia applied mathematician wins DOE Early Career Research Award
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Examination of very fine real-world data can improve the fidelity by which complex computer simulations are guided, says Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician Pete Bosler.
Bosler investigates multiscale simulations that, integrated, could combine individual raindrops, thunderstorms and the entire global atmosphere, guided by data currently thought too fine to be used, that is, too small to be seen on a data grid, or in other words, subgrid.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy