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...
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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 concentrating solar industry, research and education worldwide. Our optical metrology work focuses on developing precise and reliable solutions for challenging issues such as...
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