Page • Rotor Blade Sensors and Instrumentation During a wind turbine’s operational lifetime, its rotor blades endure a wide variety of wind loading because the blades directly capture all of the force applied to the entire wind-turbine system. Sandia staff work on installation of blade instrumentation for research activities. A turbine’s exact...
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Rotor Design
Page • Rotor Design Advanced rotor concepts from aerodynamics to instrumentation offer great potential for further improving wind plant performance and reducing energy costs. Sandia leads next-generation rotor development through: Open-source blade design platforms Custom tools for structural, aerodynamic, and cost design and analysis Sensors packages for structural and aerodynamic field testing...
Rotor Design Tools
Page • Rotor Design Tools Sandia develops computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools with capabilities driven by the needs of current research projects. Rotor design is supported by a collection of tools which enable design and optimization of the rotor aerodynamics and structural performance. This unique and customizable toolset enables innovative designs and research...
Rotor Innovation
Page • Rotor Innovation Rotor Innovation and Operations Advanced rotor concepts from aerodynamics, instrumentation, and reliability offer great potential for further improving wind plant performance and reducing energy costs. Sandia National Laboratories leads next-generation rotor development through: Open-source blade design platforms Custom tools for structural, aerodynamic, and cost design and analysis Sensors...
Rotor Reliability
Page • Rotor Reliability Blade Materials and Substructures Testing Wind turbine blades are subjected to a higher number of complex loading cycles not experienced in other applications of composite structures. These loads can lead to structural failure through various mechanisms such as a crack initiated at a flaw or structural detail such...
Roy Lopez
Staff Page • Principal Technologist. Biography C. Roy Lopez a Principal Technologist with the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration program at Sandia. This includes support for distributed energy resources, capabilities, performance, safety, interoperability, cybersecurity and grid support. Roy supports many of The PIs involved in power electronics materials and systems, Distributed Energy...
Ryan Coe
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Ryan Coe received a B.S. degree in Ocean Engineering (2009) and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (2013), both from Virginia Tech, and he subsequently joined Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies group in 2013. Ryan’s research focuses primarily on wave energy converters (WEC) modeling, testing, control,...
Ryan T. Elliott
Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Ryan T. Elliott received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, where he studied in the Renewable Energy Analysis Lab (REAL). He is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff with the Electric...
Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid
News Article, March 15, 2022 • Solid-state batteries with little liquid electrolyte are safer than lithium-ion batteries Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar panels for later use. However,...
Safety and Reliability
Page • Sandia National Laboratories is advancing the understanding of safety and reliability of electrochemical energy storage systems for grid scale applications. Battery systems have the potential for improving the resiliency of the electric grid by providing on-demand energy storage for a variety of applications. The use of advanced battery technology however...
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