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Sandia’s Work with Texas Southern University Cited by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee

On May 16, 2013, in Analysis, Facilities, Infrastructure Security, Modeling, Modeling & Analysis, News, News & Events, NISAC, Partnership

Sandia was mentioned in a letter by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) for outstanding work with Texas Southern University (TSU). Through the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) program, Sandia has partnered with TSU’s National Transportation Center of Excellence, to complete analyses of the petrochemical supply chain and related analyses of the impact of [...]


Sandia Solar Energy Test System Cited in National Engineering Competition

On May 16, 2013, in Concentrating Solar Power, Energy, Energy Storage, Facilities, National Solar Thermal Test Facility, News, News & Events, Partnership, Renewable Energy, Solar

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, Inc., of Albuquerque, N.M., earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 47th annual Engineering Excellence Awards for the Molten Salt Test Loop (MSTL) project, part of Sandia’s NSTTF. Designed and built to exacting specifications, Sandia’s MSTL system provides a means [...]


Estimating Device or System Probability of Failure

On May 9, 2013, in Analysis, Energy Surety, Facilities, Infrastructure Security, Modeling, Modeling & Analysis, News, News & Events, NISAC

POF Darts is a new algorithm for the QMU problem of estimating device or system probability of failure (POF), e.g., of critical infrastructures in the face of a potentially disruptive event. POF Darts wraps around a computational simulation of a device, evaluating it at particular parameter values, such as uncertain environmental conditions and varying as-manufactured [...]


American Geophysical Union Publishes Hope Michelsen’s Induction to Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame

On May 2, 2013, in CRF, Facilities, News, News & Events, Transportation Energy

The April 9 issue of EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, ran a news item in their “Geophysisicists Honors” section about Hope Michelsen’s (in the Combustion Chemistry Dept.) induction into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame ([94(15), p 144], announced here in February). The American Geophysical Union is the world’s largest professional society for geophysicists [...]


PV Paper Published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

On May 1, 2013, in DETL, Energy, Facilities, News, News & Events, Photovoltaic, Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL), Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Newsletter, Systems Analysis

Sandians Mathew Lave and Joshua Stein ( both in the Photovoltaics and Distributed Systems Dept.) along with Jan Kleissl (University of California–San Diego) published “A Wavelet-Based Variability Model (WVM) for Solar PV Power Plants” in the April 2013 IEEE Transactions issue. (Matthew Lave was a Sandia student intern when this work was being done and [...]


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