Page • NuMAD (Numerical Manufacturing And Design) 3.0 is an open-source software tool which simplifies the process of creating a three-dimensional model of a wind turbine blade. The tool manages all blade information, including aerodynamic and material properties, as well as material placement. The blade information can be modified manually or automatically...
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Office of Naval Research leverages Sandia-managed airspace over the Arctic Ocean for unmanned aircraft system flight
News Article, July 11, 2024 • Platform Aerospace operated their Ultra-Long Endurance Group 3 Unmanned Aircraft System, Vanilla, in the warning area complex known as W-220, last September at the Oliktok Arctic Research Center. With more than eight days of endurance, Vanilla holds the world record for continuous, un-refueled flight of a combustion engine aircraft. Sandia...
Offshore Design Optimization
Page • Offshore Design Optimization Advancing technology, siting offshore turbines and wind farms, and reducing offshore wind’s cost of energy Leveraging our rotor systems optimization capabilities in wind plants, we couple controls, loads, and dynamics to optimal floating topologies, lowering the cost of energy of future coastal power plants. Sandia National Laboratories...
Offshore wind roadmap addresses operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for U.S. Offshore Wind.” Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the roadmap assesses current operation and...
Oil & Gas Midstream
Page • Sandia draws on materials science, risk assessment, pipeline, and rail safety experience to create new approaches for pipeline inspection, repair, and optimization. Our research examines safe rail transportation of oil and its many byproducts, fire safety for pipelines and plants, and cybersecurity for all forms of the fossil energy infrastructure....
Oil & Gas Upstream
Page • Sandia is a leading resource for novel and innovative solutions to problems involving: Subsurface characterization Target detection and monitoring Multi-scale physics of fluid-rock interactions We specialize in computational modeling, lab and field measurement, and analytical capabilities for improved oilfield awareness — including the length scale of interstitial pore spaces to...
Oindrilla Dutta
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Oindrilla Dutta is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with the Energy Storage Technology and Systems department. Prior to joining Sandia, she received BS from the West Bengal University of Technology, India, in 2014, and a Ph.D. from The City University of New York, New York, USA,...
Olga Hart
Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Olga Hart is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Biological Design from Arizona State University in 2014 and 2019, respectively. She is a licensed Civil Engineer with experience in...
ONE Security: Integrated Approaches for Cyber/Physical Security
Page • Historically, nuclear cyber and physical security have been subject to significantly different regulatory considerations for the existing fleet of reactors. Nuclear physical security has a strong emphasis on deploying proven physical security solutions and demonstrating the ability to defend against a specified Design Basis Threat (DBT). Alternatively, the current approach...
OpenCSP, a new platform for open code and data, launches during SolarPACES 2024
News Article, October 10, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program recently launched OpenCSP, a collaborative environment for CSP code and data development. The new, open-source platform is comprised of source code, applications and data to enable collaborative development for the CSP community worldwide. The platform’s launch was announced this week during SolarPACES 2024...
Operational Support
Page • Due to the harsh, remote, and vast Arctic environment, energy, transportation, communications, weather prediction, charting, and sensor technology, infrastructure, and services are not as reliable as in the continental United States. Sandia delivers essential science and technology for Arctic operations in keeping with our mission as a Department of Energy...
Optical metrology and characterization of heliostats
Page • Optical metrology and characterization of heliostats The National Solar Thermal Testing Facility's Concentrating Solar Optics Laboratory aims to deliver excellent optical metrology and analysis solutions to support the concentrating solar industry, research and education worldwide. Our optical metrology work focuses on developing precise and reliable solutions for challenging issues such...
Over-irradiance events affect utility scale PV components
News Article, February 1, 2021 • In a preliminary study into the effects of ‘over-irradiance' events on PV power generation, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and colleagues in Brazil, the UK and Germany found that sudden spikes can affect the components of large scale PV power plants, especially if they last longer than a minute and...
Packaging, Storage and Transportation
Page • Click image to enlarge The U.S. inventory of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from commercial nuclear power plants is estimated to reach approximately 135,000 metric tons by mid-century. Sandia performs research and development (R&D) to support the safe management and integration of the continued storage and transportation of commercial SNF, safeguards...
PACT Center hosts first workshop in Albuquerque
News Article, January 6, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia’s) Perovskite PV Accelerator for Commercializing Technologies (PACT) Center held its first workshop Oct. 18, 2022, at CFV Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event included four sessions of presentations on a variety of topics, as well as a tour and demonstrations of PACT and other relevant...
Partnerships and Collaborations
Page • While Sandia’s energy storage efforts reach broadly across the Labs’ multidisciplinary research and engineering space, Sandia also actively seeks collaboration and partnerships with a range of stakeholders, including other national laboratories, universities, electric utilities, industry, federal and state agencies, and international consortia. These partnerships help enable the rapid adoption of...
Patents
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Patents
Page • DATETITLEPATENT NO.AUTHOR(S)2021Passive high-power-density grid interface device10,886,841Brocato, R.W., Neely, J.C., Rashkin, L.J., Delhotal, J.J., Flicker, J.D., Kaplar, R., Stewart, J. and Richards, J., National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, 20212019Arc Plasma-Generating Systems and Methods Thereof10,261,120 B1E.J. Schindelholz, K.M. Armijo, J. Johnson, R.K. Harrison, B.B. Yang2019Systems, Methods and Computer Program...
Pedro Barba
Staff Page • Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Pedro Barba is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia. His current research focuses on modeling traveling waves on transmission and distribution systems, and on optimization methods for energy storage systems. Before joining Sandia, he was...
Peter Kobos
Staff Page • Manager. Biography Peter H. Kobos has been a research economist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 2003, and is currently the Water Power Technologies Program manager. He has published in Contemporary Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, the Journal...
Photovoltaic Collaborative to Advance Multi-climate Performance and Energy Research (PV CAMPER)
Page • Photovoltaic Collaborative to Advance Multi-climate Performance and Energy Research (PV CAMPER) Formed in 2018, PV CAMPER is a global consortium of research institutions committed to collaboration and to data-sharing in order to advance photovoltaic (PV) research and expandsolar markets. To date, PV CAMPER has 14 member institutions and a network...
Photovoltaic panels catch the sun despite the snow
News Article, July 20, 2022 • Alaska trials of icephobic coating show 85% increase in energy output A Sandia-led research team has developed a transparent, polymeric-based coating that helps photovoltaic panels continuously shed snow and ice. Early field trials in Alaska demonstrated that coated panels can produce 85% more energy, compared to uncoated panels. Preliminary data...
Photovoltaic Solar Energy
Page • Photovoltaic Solar Energy Sandia has performed photovoltaic research and development for over 40 years In 1976, Sandia National Laboratories tested the performance and reliability of the first fielded terrestrial systems in the co-sponsored U.S. Department of Energy-National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Jet Propulsion Laboratory Block Program. Today, Sandia works with over...
Photovoltaic Solar Energy Facilities
Page • Photovoltaic Solar Energy Facilities Sandia National Laboratories’ photovoltaic research and development facilities are primarily located in Albuquerque, NM. Some research and development facilities are located at sites nationally and internationally in partnership with universities and utilities sites. .highlight-article { padding: 16px 16px 40px 16px; width: auto 100%; } .lower-btn {...
Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL)
Facility • Sandia’s Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory, or PSEL, provides expertise and test support within several facilities and outdoor sites for evaluating PV and other distributed energy technologies. It includes the following capabilities: PV systems evaluations and optimization Field testing of arrays and systems in collaboration with system integrators Performance testing for...
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