Page • Structural Health Monitoring One of the key challenges facing the industry is to develop reliable methods to detect damage in the rotor blades early enough to improve operations and repair/maintenance decisions leading to reduced costs and increased revenues. Sandia is addressing this challenge by performing research in the areas of...
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Stunning discovery: Metals can heal themselves
News Article, August 8, 2023 • Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution — one in which self-healing engines, bridges and airplanes...
Subsurface Energy Storage
Page • Sandia’s program in subsurface energy storage connects our expertise in underground energy storage with researchers and developers in commercial, industrial, and academic settings. Together, we are building national expertise in wellbore integrity for oil, gas, and carbon storage, as well as geologic hydrogen and hydrogen storage. Our combined experts, facilities,...
Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability
News Article, September 18, 2024 • Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor and operates at two megawatts of concentrated radiative energy. The test represents an important step toward the commercial scalability of...
Summer Ferreira
Staff Page • Manager, Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration. Biography Dr. Summer Ferreira is the Manager of the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration (REDSI) department within the Electric Grid Security group at Sandia National Laboratories. Since 2019, she has led REDSI in addressing the critical need for resilient energy solutions at...
Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Nuclear Energy
Page • What is STEP? The Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Generation program constitutes a crosscut to facilitate the commercialization of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) technology. STEP is co-sponsored by the offices of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fossil Energy (FE) and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The STEP mission is to reduce the...
Surf’s up! Free webinar on wave energy
News Article, March 20, 2024 • Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss recent results from WEC co-design testing on the “WaveBot” device at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering...
Techno-Economic Performance Metrics
Page • There are a wide variety of needs and uses for Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) techno-economic performance metrics. They accomplish a variety of objectives, including enabling consistent evaluation and benchmarking of device/component performance in marine energy across all stages of development; helping to discern technology/industry advancement and identify cost-reduction pathways. Methodology...
Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
News Article, June 17, 2024 • Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call. The new $2.1 million opportunity will make $100,000 vouchers available to innovators, entrepreneurs,...
Testing Capabilities
Page • High-Temperature & High-Flux Testing Capabilities The site was built and instrumented to provide test facilities for a variety of solar and non-solar applications. Solar Tower 1. 350W/cm2 2. 6.2 MWth Solar Furnace 1. 16 kW 2. 600 W/cm2 Molten Salt Test Loop 1. Three Test Loops 2. 60% NaNo3/40% KNO3...
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