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Bryan Arguello
Staff Page • Senior Member of the Technical Staff. Biography Bryan is an optimization modeler who has focused on power grid resiliency and microgrid cost analysis. In addition, he has a keen interest in scheduling problems. Education Masters of Science in Engineering, Operations Research from the University of Texas at AustinMasters of Art,...

Bryan Wygant
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Bryan R. Wygant is a Postdoctoral Appointee at Sandia National Laboratories in the Photovoltaics & Materials Tech organization. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Texas Tech University in 2014 and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. His research...

Budi Gunawan
Staff Page • Principal R&D Engineer. Biography Budi Gunawan is a principal research engineer in the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. He has experience in environmental fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering, and marine and hydrokinetic energy. Since 2011, Budi has overseen various projects involving hydrodynamic measurements and modeling, component and system...

C. Birk Jones
Staff Page • Principal Member Technical Staff, Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration. Biography Dr. Birk Jones has accumulated over two decades of experience committed to improving the construction, operation, and utilization of buildings and the electric grid. His comprehensive professional history includes roles as a design engineer, construction engineer, and research staff...

C. Ramesh Koripella
Staff Page • Materials Scientist. Biography Ramesh Koripella is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories since 2011. He is a materials scientist and engineer with more than 30 years R&D experience in electronic components and power sources development. In the energy storage systems group, he performs technical analysis of...

California Energy Commission Long Duration Energy Storage Systems Workshops
Page • Presented by: California Energy Commission,U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program,and Sandia National Laboratories Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables; relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands; and hastening the transition to a decarbonized future. Policymakers, regulators, and other employees affiliated with state energy offices...

Capabilities
Page • Sandia’s geothermal research program sustains multiple capabilities that reduce the cost and risk of research for novel geothermal technology while advancing national R&D capabilities. Geothermal capabilities available at Sandia span high temperature, pressure, and vibration testing; fabricating new components and systems; and evaluating drilling components. Browse our unique capabilities below....

Capabilities
Page • Capabilities Our facilities, tools, and partners form the basis of our energy programs’ capabilities. The energy programs draw on the Laboratories’ core competencies—leveraging decades of work supporting national security areas—to quickly address emerging needs.

Carlos Michelen
Staff Page • R&D Engineer & Data Scientist. Biography Carlos Michelen is a senior member of the technical staff in Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program. His research interests include machine learning and data science methods for marine renewable energy applications, open source code development, statistical methods, computational fluid mechanics, and computational...

Carlsbad Sandia Site
Facility • Carlsbad Sandia acts as the scientific advisor to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) repository project for WIPP regulatory compliance and recertification. Carlsbad Sandia’s geochemistry work is primarily laboratory-based, with focused research on engineered barrier structure and chemistry interactions, gas generation and corrosion analysis, solubility and Pitzer interaction...

Carolee Wheeler
Staff Page • Office Administrative Assistant. Biography Carolee Wheeler is the Office Administrative Assistant for the Wind Energy Computational Sciences and Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Departments. Much of Carolee’s work is providing behind the scenes support to ensure both departments’ administrative processes are accomplished in an orderly and timely manner. Carolee holds...

Cement & Concrete
Page • Sandia has longstanding experience developing and testing cements, supplemental cementitious materials, and low-cost, alternative heating technologies. Our capabilities span modeling, testing, characterization, monitoring, and life-cycle assessments for traditional Portland cement as well as next-generation compositions. Development and testing of next-generation cement formulations Large-scale materials testing and in-situ monitoring High-temperature process-heat...

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
Facility • The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) is a Department of Energy/Office of Science Nanoscale Science Research Center operating as a national user facility devoted to establishing the scientific principles that govern the design, performance, and integration of nanoscale materials. CINT features laboratories for low-vibration for sensitive characterization, chemical and biological synthesis, a...

Cesar Castillo
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Appointee. Biography Cesar R Castillo, PhD, is a postdoctoral appointee in the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Cesar’s research focuses on the use of numerical modeling to characterize the performance and environmental effects of marine and hydrokinetic devices, and on the development of portals and repositories...

CHAMA: Open Source Software for Sensor Placement Optimization
Page • Continuous or regularly scheduled monitoring can quickly identify changes in the environment. However, even with low-cost sensors, only a limited number of sensors can be deployed. The physical placement of deployed sensors, sensor technology, and operating conditions, can significantly impact the performance of a monitoring strategy. Monitor more effectively: optimize...

Characterization of Convective and Particle Losses inHigh-Temperature Particle Receivers
Page • High-temperature particle receivers are being pursued to enable next-generation concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) systems that can achieve higher temperatures (> 700 °C) to enable more efficient power cycles, lower overall system costs, and emerging CSP-based process-heat applications. The objective of this work was to develop characterization methods to quantify...

Charles Robinson
Staff Page • Principle Engineering Technologist. Biography Charles D. Robinson is an engineering technologist in the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. He has facilitated photovoltaic module research activities at Sandia’s Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) since 2011. His focus is on improvement of characterization methodologies in support of...

Chemistry Labs
Page • Sandia has access to a full suite of chemistry labs (materials synthesis) and characterization equipment, including: tube and box furnaces (up to 1400°C) for solid state synthesis and high temperature treatment; thermogravimetric and differential scanning calorimetry analyzers (TGA/DSC) to measure weight gain/loss and thermodynamic properties vs. temperature (e.g., phase change,...

Chris Chartrand
Staff Page • Lead Modeling and Simulation Analyst & Developer. Biography Chris Chartrand is a member of the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. His research concentrates on the implementation and development of numerical models for simulating wave, tidal, and current energy capture devices. He is the developer of the WEC...

Christopher Kelley
Staff Page • Rotor Wake Lead. Biography Chris is a member of the Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He leads the Rotor Wake project for experimental testing of the NRT rotor and producing validation data for DOE multi-lab projects. He also leads the development of two new experiments...

Clifford Hansen
Staff Page • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Clifford Hansen is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration Program. He leads efforts to develop reusable open source software capabilities for renewable energy systems. Current projects include pvlib-python (https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python.git) for solar power modeling, pvanalytics (https://github.com/pvlib/pvanalytics.git)...

Clifford Ho
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Dr. Cliff Ho is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, where he has worked since 1993 on problems involving solar energy, energy storage, water safety and sustainability, heat- and mass-transfer processes in porous media, microchemical...

Coal & Carbon Management
Page • As a Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration lab, Sandia National Laboratories has an enduring interest in energy security. Sandia is committed to research and development in clean coal energy technologies, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Sandia has a long history of investigating subsurface processes relevant...

Code Development
Page • Sandia National Laboratories develops and maintains open source code for a wide range of marine renewable energy applications, including resource assessment, environmental effects analysis, device performance, hydrodynamic response, extreme conditions, and others. Open source code development is an ongoing area of research in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies department. Open Source...
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