Page • A diagram of a hydrogen fueling station for rail transport. Click image to enlarge. Sandia’s hydrogen for rail program enables the safe and effective use of hydrogen systems for rail applications. Our contribution includes reviewing existing codes and standards related to hydrogen systems for rail, as well as assessing the...
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Hydrogen Production
Page • At the Combustion Research Facility, researchers can replicate the high energy flux and rapid heating rates that materials encounter in a concentrating solar reactor. Sandia maintains the equipment, technical expertise, and partnerships required to develop technology for solar thermochemical hydrogen production and thermal storage. Sandia’s experimental materials development and characterization...
Hydrogen Quantitative Risk Assessment
Page • Sandia’s Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) team develops methodologies to identify hazards, understand risk drivers, and develop strategies to reduce risk in hydrogen infrastructure. The models, data, methods, and tools developed by Sandia facilitate the use of science and engineering to inform the revision of codes and standards that ensure the...
Hydrogen Release Behavior
Page • Sandia’s hydrogen safety codes and standards research program develops the technical data and scientific understanding to inform science-based improvements to the codes and standards that define the safe use of hydrogen. Research includes studies on the fundamental behavior and characteristics of a hydrogen release, such as dispersion, accumulation, ignition, flame...
Hydrogen Safety, Codes, and Standards
Page • Sandia’s hydrogen safety, codes, and standards research program develops the technical data and scientific understanding necessary to inform science-based improvements to the codes and standards that define the safe use of hydrogen. These codes and standards are critical for the broader commercial use and deployment of hydrogen. Our research includes...
Hydrogen Storage
Page • As part of a multilab consortium, researchers at Sandia are advancing hydrogen storage materials. Sandia maintains extensive facilities for the design, synthesis, and characterization of hydrogen storage materials. Our major hydrogen storage research activities include: fundamental studies of hydrogen interactions with solid-state materials; design and synthesis of promising on-board reversible...
Hydrogen Subsurface Storage
Page • Sandia leverages analytic capabilities and laboratories to support experimentation and research for characterizing the suitability of subsurface hydrogen storage. We study multiple subsurface environments — including domal salt structures, bedded salt/sedimentary formations and porous media — to store and recover hydrogen for safe and effective industrial use. Sandia’s microbiology experts prepare...
Hydrogen Surface Interactions Laboratory
Facility • Sandia’s Hydrogen–Surface Interactions Laboratory includes an array of specialized capabilities assembled to address the obstacle of directly detecting hydrogen in furthering our understanding of hydrogen–surface interactions. The lab includes an angle-resolved ion energy spectrometer (ARIES) for low energy ion beam analysis, developed specifically for detection of light adsorbates such as...
Hydrogen Transport and Trapping Laboratory
Facility • Sandia staff in the Hydrogen Transport and Trapping Laboratory evaluate many features of the interactions between hydrogen and materials. In particular, the effects of hydrogen on mechanical properties can be strongly influenced by transport (or diffusion) of hydrogen in materials on the time scale of testing. Researchers in the Hydrogen Transport and...
Hydrogen workshop assembles research community
News Article, March 21, 2022 • University faculty and staff from national laboratories convened last week to identify opportunities for collaborative research in critical, thematic areas related to hydrogen. During a technical workshop hosted March 9th by the Northern Rio Grande Corridor Collaborative (NRGCC), attendees held discussions focused on challenges, opportunities, and the research needed to...
Hydropower
Page • Sandia National Laboratories’ capabilities in hydropower include water resources engineering, river flow and storage modeling, hydropower plant measurements, plant cyber security and resilience, and grid and storage design optimization.
HyRAM+
Page • Hydrogen Plus Other Alternative Fuels Risk Assessment Models (HyRAM+) is a software toolkit that integrates publicly available data and models relevant to assessing the safety in the use, delivery, and storage infrastructure of hydrogen and other alternative fuels (i.e., methane and propane). The HyRAM+ risk assessment calculations incorporate probabilities of...
Hyungjin Choi
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Hyungjin Choi received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2017 focusing on convex optimization approaches for transient stability and uncertainty propagation in power systems. Before joining Sandia, he worked as a software engineer at Siemens Digital Grid on developing transmission network applications...
Icephobic surfaces for ice, snow shedding in utility scale solar
News Article, December 15, 2021 • A Sandia National Laboratories-led research team has developed a transparent, polymeric-based coating that helps photovoltaic panels continuously shed snow and ice. Read the complete article in Renewable Energy World. Go to the article
IEA Task 13 report offers new guidelines for photovoltaic bifacial tracker systems
News Article, September 20, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories were part of an international team to publish a new report featuring best practices for bifacial photovoltaic tracking systems. In August, the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 13 released, “Best Practices for the Optimization of Bifacial Tracking Systems 2024,” which provides an...
Ifeoma Onunkwo
Staff Page • Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Ifeoma Onunkwo is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She has led efforts in network intrusion detection to prevent the spread of malware. She also leads efforts in the delivery of robust Distributed Energy Resource (DER) systems for DOE, Sandia,...
Illinois Commerce Commission
Page • Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables, relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands, and hastening the energy transition to a decarbonized future. Illinois Commerce Commission Staff & Stakeholders are invited to participate in a series of energy storage webinars presented in collaboration with US DOE Office...
In celebration of innovation
News Article, December 8, 2022 • Event honors Sandia efforts to advance the science frontier with innovative technologies On Oct. 27, Sandia/California hosted a hybrid Innovation Award Celebration to recognize innovators at the Labs. The annual event — which went on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic — honors Sandians who have developed innovative technical solutions to...
Increasing efficiency and power density for next-generation electric drivetrains
News Article, December 23, 2024 • (a) Simplified diagram of the GaN trench MOSFET. (b) Image of the MOSFET devices under test. (c) Image of the 2” wafer as fabricated. While the underlying science benefits a range of potential applications and industries, the team’s research was funded by the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office which is investigating...
Industrial Technologies
Page • Developing and de-risking technologies to reduce the carbon intensity of heat- and energy-intensive industrial processes. Sandia uniquely offers integrated expertise in basic sciences, such as materials science and scientific computing, with unique component and systems design, testing, and validation capabilities. Researchers within this program advance technologies that enable the use...
Industry Services
Page • Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) offers industry assistance to develop solutions to problems experienced through normal operations. Previous experience includes: Plant operation analysis and corrective measures to increase electricity output Environmental impacts from Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants and mitigating measures Solar glare analysis impacting FAA installations Molten salt component and...
Innovative Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Rotors
Page • Innovative Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Rotors The Innovative Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Rotors project seeks to advance large offshore vertical-axis wind turbine rotor technology from concept to lab-scale prototype stage through four major research thrusts: VAWTs in deep-water have inherent advantages over HAWTs in deep-water, which is illustrated in the...
International collaboration compares geologic repository assessment tools
News Article, April 18, 2022 • Sandia software supports assessment of future spent nuclear fuel disposal Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and partner national laboratories will compare their Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment software framework to the safety assessment software of international peers at a late-April workshop. The Sandia-led Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment framework is a computer...
International team plans to transform battery databases
News Article, January 30, 2023 • A consortium of researchers, including Sandia battery experts Yuliya Preger and Valerio De Angelis, are working together to stimulate battery innovation by developing battery databases. Ultimately, they hope to expand the role of batteries in supporting the transformation of electric grid infrastructure including the integration of renewable energy resources and...
Internship prepares Native students for careers in tribal energy
News Article, September 20, 2023 • Three interns who participated in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy-sponsored student internship program shared their experiences in a recent post published to DOE's website. The program is administered by Sandia — Sandra Begay, a member of the Navajo Nation, has been implementing the program on behalf...
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