Sandians Win ‘Best Paper’ Award at Photovoltaic Conference in Japan March 4, 2015 6:53 pm A research team that included Sandians received a Best Paper Award for their work “Photovoltaic System Model Calibration Using Monitored... View Article
Sandia Research on PV Arc-Fault Detection Submitted for US Patent March 4, 2015 6:52 pm Sandia National Laboratories/Tigo Energy researchers recently submitted an application for a US patent related to research on arc-fault detection and... View Article
PV Plant Performance Technical Briefing Published in PV Power Tech March 4, 2015 6:51 pm The state of the art in PV system monitoring is relatively simplistic, relying either on comparisons of outputs between various... View Article
Storing Hydrogen Underground Could Boost Transportation, Energy Security February 26, 2015 1:54 pm Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications... View Article
Predicting Pressure-Dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions February 25, 2015 5:25 pm Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical... View Article
National Rotor Testbed Rotor Design Integrated Airfoil Performance Results February 24, 2015 11:58 am The National Rotor Testbed (NRT) team is examining the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new... View Article
Sandian Recognized as a Top Professional in Energy December 15, 2014 7:14 pm Sandia’s Kenneth Armijo was recognized in Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine’s Fall 2014 issue as a “top professional in... View Article
Sandia Wins DOE Geothermal Technologies Office Funding Award December 15, 2014 12:44 pm The DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) selected twelve collaborative enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) R&D projects that will use novel techniques... View Article
Evaluating Powerful Batteries for Modular Electric Grid Energy Storage December 12, 2014 12:55 pm Sandia has begun lab-based characterization of TransPower’s GridSaver, the largest grid energy storage (ES) system analyzed at Sandia’s Energy Storage... View Article
“Bionic” Liquids from Lignin: Joint BioEnergy Institute Results Pave the Way for Closed-Loop Biofuel Refineries December 11, 2014 12:05 pm While ionic liquids (paired-ions salts that are liquid at room temperature) show great promise for liberating fermentable sugars from lignocellulose... View Article