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Electrical circuits encased in fluid may reshape data-center design
June 26, 2024 • Keeping electrical circuits dry is generally considered a vital safety measure, but at Sandia National Laboratories’ high-performance computing center, technicians adjust live circuits submerged in liquid. “It’s pretty cool — and a little unusual — to walk into a computing lab and see electrical hardware submerged in fluid,” said Sandia...
A man with a face shield, apron, and gloves works on a computer server submerged in liquid

Sodium-ion battery safety research: Advancing the next generation of energy storage technology
June 25, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Lab, the Department of Energy’s core facility for battery safety, is investigating the safety of sodium-ion battery technology. Due to sodium’s abundance and an electrochemistry that resembles lithium-ion batteries in some ways, sodium-ion batteries are being considered for grid storage and automotive applications. The...

Boosting battery research
June 18, 2024 • Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make these large back-up batteries less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into flame. One way...

Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
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,...
Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.

A SEAT at the global table: Environmental modeling software endorsed by the Ocean Decade
June 6, 2024 • Figure: Example of a SEAT output showing risk of potential changes in seabed dynamics (i.e., erosion or deposition) caused by modified wave and circulation forces induced by a WEC array interacting with local sediment bed composition. Sandia National Laboratories’ Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit has received an endorsement from the United...

Video: Validating models for safety codes and standards
May 10, 2024 • Earlier this year, a test series at Sandia collected data to validate the models used for hydrogen safety codes and standards. Go behind the scenes with the research team who ran the test with partners from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and support from US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency...
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Babu Chalamala elected to National Academy of Engineering
May 8, 2024 • Since joining Sandia in 2015, Babu Chalamala has diligently worked to improve the safety and reliability of grid storage technologies. In the long run, his efforts support the large-scale integration of grid storage and the modernization of the electricity infrastructure. In the short term, they have earned him election to...

eGrid 2024 call for papers now open
May 6, 2024 • The 9th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2024) will be held on November 19-21, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. This international workshop — sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and organized by Sandia National Laboratories and University...

New Microgrid Design Toolkit tutorial site
April 30, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories developed the Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT), a decision support software for microgrid designers that is publicly available for download. Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses powerful search algorithms to identify and characterize alternative microgrid designs in terms of user-defined inputs and...
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Liquid hydrogen spill tests will inform safety standards’ technical basis
April 18, 2024 • Sandia is helping to enable assessment of large-scale leak scenarios to improve the safety of hydrogen infrastructure by developing a science-based, defensible, and well-documented rationale for liquid hydrogen safety requirements. Sandia recently completed an experimental campaign to simulate and quantify how liquid hydrogen behaves if accidentally spilled or released at...
A researcher leans over a grid array that is covered in frost.

Propelling 3D printing into the future
April 17, 2024 • 3D printing has changed the world. It’s allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before. It has drastically increased flexibility and cost effectiveness while reducing waste and production time. But many 3D-printed materials aren’t the strongest. A...

2024 European PVPMC Workshop announces call for abstracts
April 15, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance and Modelling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for the 2024 European PVPMC Workshop. The Technical University of Denmark, European Energy, and Sandia will host the event taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21-22, 2024.  Workshop organizers are currently inviting session abstracts on the...
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Two Sandia researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering
April 15, 2024 • Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala recognized for contributions to engineering Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers, Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala, have been elected as members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. They are among the 114 new members and 21 international members to be inducted as the class of 2024....

Registration now open for the 2024 PVPMC Workshop
March 29, 2024 • The 2024 PV Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshop will take place May 7–9, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration is now open.   The popular workshop addresses the current state of photovoltaic system models, works to develop a path forward for establishing best practices on PV system performance modeling and sets the...
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Sandia’s Grid Modernization team for PR100 report receives Secretary’s Honor Award
March 28, 2024 • A multi-laboratory research team, including members from Sandia’s Grid Modernization group, received a 2023 Secretary’s Honor Award for its contributions to the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100).The prestigious award recognizes the Department of Energy’s employees and contractors who make positive, lasting impacts on...

Surf’s up! Free webinar on wave energy
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...

Bruised and bleeding: New materials show where they’re hurt
March 18, 2024 • Cody Corbin spreads oxygen sensitive material inside two concentric cylinders at Sandia National Labs on Nov. 30, 2023. Once constructed the cylinder will protect contents by indicating if there has been tampering. Photo by Craig Fritz Every over-the-counter medication bottle sports a protective seal, usually a plastic wrap or foam...
Scientist Cody Corbin stands at a lab station, his body is separated from the material he is working with by glass, and his arms are protected by rubber sleeves.

Creating the self-healing grid of the future
March 14, 2024 • Michael Ropp, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in a reality not far from fiction a team of researchers is bringing this idea to life. What’s not hard to...
Michael Ropp poses for a photo at Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technology Lab (DETL) on Oct. 13, 2023. His team is working on ways for an energy microgrids to self-heal using computer algorithms. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Labs

2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
March 1, 2024 • The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers. Speakers and attendees will address the major topics for wind turbine blades, network with colleagues, and...

Bioscience research holds promise to help address environmental damage
February 28, 2024 • Palm kernel oil is used in almost 40% of beauty and food products worldwide, but the $12 billion industry is estimated to account for millions of acres lost to deforestation and 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Sandia bioscientist Di Liu recently demonstrated novel metabolic routes to produce lipids containing...
Waxen red-orange tinted seeds sit atop a rock.

The WaveBot goes to Carderock
February 21, 2024 • The WaveBot, a scale-model wave energy converter (WEC), bobs up and down in the water as researchers cluster around a row of monitors in the control room of the largest wave tank in the United States. This is the WaveBot’s fourth trip to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock...
The WaveBot at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery
February 1, 2024 • Wildfires impact the safety and security of society. The electric grid can initiate wildfires and is susceptible to wildfires. Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate and determine the risk of ignition, reduce wildfire spread, and decrease the consequences of major wildfires through new tools and better-informed decision making....
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