ARPA-E TEAMING LIST 2021

Energy &Homeland Security

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. SAND2021-6218 M

Contact Name: Irene Trujillo, Kailey Wulfert, Charles Hanley

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/electric-grid/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia supports grid modernization with transformational energy technologies; technical, economic & national security analysis of loss/disruption of critical civilian and military energy infrastructures; understanding/developing technology for infrastructure protection/infrastructure disruption mitigation, response, and recovery options.

Advanced Grid Modeling Program: Focuses on grid stability; electric power system planning & operations; electric power system protection; threat modeling; resilience metrics/modeling; and machine learning/data analytics.

Renewable Energy & Distributed Systems Integration Program: Develops/validates solutions to the challenges facing the nation’s energy providers, supports rapid decarbonization while addressing reliability, resilience & cybersecurity needs; maintaining critical infrastructure; building the next generation of interconnected systems and microgrids.

Energy Storage Program: Includes advanced battery technologies, power electronics and power conversion systems, algorithms/controls for optimum utilization of energy storage assets. Sandia partners to implement full-scale technology demonstration projects across the nation, furthering the understanding of a future with ubiquitous grid-connected storage.

In power electronics & controls, Sandia supports grid modernization by developing ways to increase resiliency, performance, and efficiency. Uses expertise in engineering principles to achieve complete systems-view solutions. Goal is to look beyond proprietary systems to pursue integration at a national scale, with multiple vendors, to architect congruent communication, controls, and interconnection.

Grid Cyber & Physical Security Program: Delivers grid security/grid modernization through research, development, and evaluation of solutions to maintain operations in an adversarial, compromised environment.

Defense Energy Program: Combines energy technology R&D with custom modeling, simulation, analysis, and optimization capabilities/tools to provide unique value to U.S. defense agencies with world-class capabilities, innovative technologies, and proven experience.

Sandia’s resilience research assists in understanding and technology development of infrastructure protection/infrastructure disruption mitigation, response, and recovery options. Microgrid R&D addresses real-time controls, operational optimization, power electronics, protection standards, and community resilience methods and tools.

ARPA-E TEAMING LIST 2021GRID #1



Contact Name: Craig Lawton, Jodie Lord, Richard Griffith

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:

Sandia’s Resilient Energy Systems Mission Campaign is a Sandia sponsored investment focused on break-through science and technology that will improve resilience in US energy infrastructure and other critical infrastructure systems.

The Resilient Energy Systems Mission Campaign addresses and mitigates threats to the nation’s infrastructure, building on decades of stakeholder engagement & internal investment, and adding real-world value for the near and long term. This Mission campaign delivers S&T capabilities to dramatically increase the resilience of the nation’s US energy systems and other critical infrastructures against intentional threats (EMP, cyber-physical, and kinetic).

The research focus areas include: Understanding, characterizing and quantifying risks and vulnerabilities; discovering and developing new materials, devices and cyber solutions to protect equipment, components and subsystems; and creating new capabilities for modeling and analyzing large-scale, dynamic systems.

GRID #2



Contact Name: Elizabeth Lucero, Chris San Marchi, Lily Shain

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/sustainable-transportation/hydrogen/


Fuel CellsSynthesis/characterization of ion-containing separators used in Fuel Cells & electrolysers. Sandia patented a novel class of poly(phenylene)s that has shown promise in both acidic & alkaline fuel cells, flow batteries & electrolysers; developed a fuel cell alkaline separator that maintained low resistance over 300 hours, while a popular candidate failed after 100 hours. These technologies show long-term durability (greater than 2000 hours) as an electrolyser separator, versus 800 hours with a commercial standard.

Hydrogen ProductionSolar thermochemical hydrogen production/thermal storage expertise. Experimental materials development/characterization capabilities include high-temperature, in-situ X-ray diffraction and a virtually accessible laser heated stagnation flow reactor; such capabilities evaluate material behavior under extreme thermal conditions (>1500ºC) and heating rates (>100 ºC/s). National Solar Thermal Test Facility expertise is leveraged to develop advanced reactor concepts/components (e.g., heliostats, solar receivers).

Hydrogen Safety, Codes, StandardsResearch includes the study of behaviors/characteristics of hydrogen release (dispersion, accumulation, ignition, flame radiation, and overpressure). We create models to describe these phenomena and generate high-fidelity data used to validate/verify these models; these are combined with quantitative risk assessment methods to develop the HyRAM software tool to support DOE’s larger Hydrogen Safety, Codes and Standards Program.

Hydrogen Storage• Basic study of H2 interactions with solid-state materials• Design/synthesis of promising on-board reversible H2

storage materials with exothermic hydrogenation andappropriate kinetics & cycling behavior

• Study processing-structure-property relationships forimproved materials performance through compositional,structural, catalytic, nanostructure modification

• Develop in-situ techniques to characterize H2 storagematerials, elucidate the role of intermediates, defectsand interfaces on hydrogen diffusion and reactionpathways

• Engineering/process development to accelerate thecommercial use of new H2 storage materials

Materials Compatibility Develop, verify that materials used to hold and deliver hydrogen can withstand hydrogen exposure. Sandia’s expertise determines how hydrogen interacts with materials at both the atomic and macroscopic scales; this understanding is applied to assess/predict performance, reliability of engineered components.

TRANSPORTATION #1



Contact Name: Bob Kaplar, Kyle Fenton, Elizabeth Lucero, Chris Shaddix, Lily Shain

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/sustainable-transportation/vehicle-technologies/


Improved Engine CombustionThe Combustion Research Facility (CRF) uses advanced, laser-based diagnostics in conjunction with experimental hardware that simulates or closely mimics realistic engine conditions. Hardware includes: several optically accessible, single-cylinder engines with production or prototypical engine heads; an optically accessible combustion vessel that can simulate a wide range of engine conditions. Quartz piston heads, quartz cylinder liners, windowed spacers, and/or periscopes in exhaust valves provide optical access in the engines. The CRF is also developing sensitive, high-energy, laser-based diagnostics for measuring real-time particulate matter in engine exhaust streams. Sandia also leads the Engine Combustion Network, an open forum for international collaboration among experimental & computational researchers in engine combustion, as well as the Spray Combustion Consortium, an industry-funded activity to improve engine combustion system design and optimization tools.

Electric VehiclesSandia develops technology for electric vehicles and the supporting infrastructure. We advance battery safety and materials, power electronics, vehicle charging technology, and grid integration.

Battery Safety & Materials Sandia’s goal is a science-based understanding of electrochemical atomic/molecular processes, connected with the macroscopic response of packaged batteries to mitigate safety concerns, extend battery lifetimes, and increase battery efficiency through three coordinated thrusts:

• Large-scale battery testing to measure criticalthermochemical/thermophysical response phenomenato provide detectable signatures of end-of-lifedegradation mechanisms

• In-situ nano-scale characterization to gain an atomisticunderstanding of these mechanisms

• Multi-scale modeling, building predictive models linkingatomistic processes with macroscopic responses

Power ElectronicsSandia is conducting relevant work in the areas of wide-bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, magnetic and dielectric materials, thermal management, and circuit design and system optimization based on metrics such as power density, efficiency, reliability, and cost.

Fueling SafetyFocus areas:

• Developing reduced-order engineering models ofcompressed natural gas/liquid natural gas/propanerelease behavior

• Evaluating key risk scenarios to develop best practicesand code revisions

• Developing educational materials, informing codecommittees for risk mitigation strategies

TRANSPORTATION #2



Contact Name: Irene Trujillo, Kailey Wulfert, Abraham Ellis

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/energy-efficiency/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:The Building Energy Technology Program focuses on developing novel energy technologies for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. These include advanced solid-state-lighting, high-performance power electronics, thermal insulator and conducting materials, and energy systems integration.

Researchers represent a broad range of disciplines. In building energy, they have built and maintained their own retrofit management tool, Institutional Transformation (IX), which has allowed climate projections to be used for a peak load study using data-driven methods and 120 physics-based models. The Energy-Water Systems Integration department provides support to a very broad portfolio of project types to improve infrastructure through modeling and analysis.

BUILDING EFFICIENCY



Contact Name: Luisella Hunter, Tito Bonano, Richard Griffith

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/nuclear-energy/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia has over forty years of technical leadership assuring our nation’s nuclear energy safety, security, safeguards, viability, and sustainability

Commercial Nuclear Power Generation One of Sandia’s goals is to develop, demonstrate and deploy solutions for a secure, safe, and resilient energy future. The commercial nuclear power generation component of the nuclear energy fuel cycle contributes to this goal by supporting:

• The sustainability of the current operating nuclearpower plants by assessing and implementing technicalsolutions that can lead to more efficient and less costlyoperations.

• The advancement and deployment of advanced nuclearreactors for both commercial and defense activities,including integrated safety, security and safeguards aswell as advanced energy conversion.

Launch Safety for Space Nuclear MissionsSandia has supported space launch safety analyses for the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) since 2006. Our support includes producing the final safety analysis report (FSAR) for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission launch in 2011 and the FSAR for the Mars 2020 mission launch in July 2020.

Nuclear Energy Safety & SecuritySandia develops innovative technologies and methodologies through scientific analyses and experiments to enhance the safety of the nuclear fuel cycle and the supporting infrastructure. We provide a scientific basis to support Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing and regulatory decisions and advance the technical foundation

for severe accident analysis/management and high consequence risk characterization of light water and advanced nuclear power systems. In addition, we provide and advance the scientific and technical basis to defend energy systems from cyber and physical threats. Furthermore, we provide and advance the scientific and technical basis for assessing the environmental, economic, and human health impacts of an accident at a power plant.

POWER GENERATION AND ENERGY PRODUCTION: NUCLEAR



Contact Name: Hannah Werner & Ben Cook

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/fossil-energy/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia is helping to solve the nation’s energy-related engineering challenges: subsurface energy production, storage, and waste disposal.

Coal & Carbon ManagementAs 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).

Fossil Energy Water ManagementThe continued security and economic health of the United States depends on a sustainable supply of energy and water. The availability of adequate water supplies has a profound impact on the availability of energy, while energy production and power generation activities affect water availability and quality.

Oil & Gas MidstreamSandia draws on materials science, risk assessment, pipeline, and rail safety experience to create new approaches for pipeline inspection, repair, and optimization. Our research examines safe rail transportation of oil and its many byproducts, fire safety for pipelines and plants, and cybersecurity for all forms of the fossil energy infrastructure.

Oil & Gas UpstreamSandia is a leading resource for novel and innovative solutions to problems involving: subsurface characterization, target detection and monitoring, multi-scale physics of fluid-rock interactions. We specialize in computational modeling, lab and field measurement, and analytical capabilities for improved oilfield awareness–-including the length scale of interstitial pore spaces, to the fully operational and developed field scale.

Subsurface StorageSandia’s priority in subsurface storage applies expertise in underground energy storage to engage with commercial storage partnerships and work with industry and other national labs in building a national expertise in wellbore integrity that can be applied to oil, gas, and carbon storage. Subsurface energy storage is part of the broad natural gas energy pipeline network drawing on 400 subsurface storage sites. The abundance of natural gas, and the expansion of gas use for electricity, is motivating storage owners to maximize their capacity.

POWER GENERATION AND ENERGY PRODUCTION: FOSSIL



Contact Name: Elizabeth Lucero, Charles Reinke, Lily Shain

Website: https://www.sandia.gov/mesa/; https://www.sandia.gov/research/research_foundations/geoscience/; https://www.sandia.gov/research/facilities/technology_deployment_centers/materials_science_designated_tdp.html

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s research in radiation-hardened microelectronics, photonics, & materials for extreme environments supports Nuclear Fission Power Generation and Materials by enabling solutions uniquely suited to nuclear power/waste monitoring and clean energy applications.

Barrier Transduction Program: Enables data/power transmission over sealed barriers using mechanical waves for applications like Faraday cages, nuclear waste monitoring, and space missions, having demonstrated on metal, non-conductive, multi-layer barriers >1” thick, exceeding 10Mbps of data and 1W of power transmission and can be further scaled. Technology can be resilient in radiation, thermal, and mechanical shock/vibration environments to achieve error-free data transmission, efficient power transmission, and novel sensing/data collection.

National Security Photonics Center: Enables radiation-hardened photonics solutions (science, technology, micro-, sub- and turn-key systems), including innovations and prototyping in optics and metamaterials, silicon and III-V photonics, optoelectronics, heterogeneous integration for thermal energy harvesting, sensing, and telecommunications.

Rad-Hard Electronics & Trusted Systems: Trusted resources/facilities for R&D, design, layout, fabrication, characterization, packaging, and testing. The fab facilities include a compound semiconductor facility for custom microelectronics solutions and an 8” silicon foundry with a 0.35um strategic rad-hard process.

Spent Nuclear Fuel Program: Assesses long-term safety of nuclear waste dry storage, environmental monitoring sensors, and potential stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of storage canisters with geochemistry expertise on canister surface environments, corrosive salt deposition, and improved methods for optical detection of SCC cracks. Research also on the composition and evolution of the canister backfill gas phase.

Materials Science and Engineering Center: Synthesizes/fabricates materials for power generation and energy production; includes metals, ceramics, and mixed hierarchy structures with characteristic ideal for fusion and fission applications. Fabrication, modeling, and characterization capabilities enable complex mixtures of chemistry and structure to mitigate damage created through formation, distribution, and interaction of point defects as well as increase the resilience of electronics/components/coatings.

POWER GENERATION AND ENERGY PRODUCTION: FOSSIL/NUCLEAR



Contact Name: Irene Trujillo, Kailey Wulfert, Amy Halloran

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/renewable-energy/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia National Laboratories’ research in renewable energy reduces the cost, improves the resilience and reliability, and decreases the regulatory burden of renewable energy.

Our research builds on many of Sandia’s core strengths including high-fidelity modeling; materials development, analysis, and testing; advanced controls systems; high-temperature systems; cyber security; verification and validation/uncertainty quantification; and performance testing and reliability.

Sandia’s renewable energy program includes wind, geothermal, water power, photovoltaic, and concentrating solar power.

POWER GENERATION: RENEWABLE #1




Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/renewable-energy/wind-power/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s Wind Energy Program leads research that furthers the modernization, resilience, and sustainability of our nation’s wind energy assets. Our research uses world-class testing and computational capabilities to enable and maintain a global supply of clean, affordable and dependable wind-generated energy. Our Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility, located in Lubbock, Texas, is the first public facility to use multiple wind turbines to measure turbine performance in a wind farm environment. SWiFT partners with industry and academia to reduce turbine-to-turbine interaction and wind plant underperformance, develop advanced wind turbine rotors, and improve the validity of advanced simulation models.





Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/renewable-energy/geothermal-research/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s Geothermal Research Program applies electrical and mechanical engineering, geothermal energy system knowledge, and laboratory and field testing, to develop downhole tools to access deep, hot, and chemically harsh subsurface environments for geothermal, oil and gas, environmental restoration, mine rescue, energy storage, and national security missions.





Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/renewable-energy/water-power/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s Water Power Program is supporting an emerging water power technologies portfolio including offshore wind, marine hydrokinetic, and conventional hydropower, through a systematic approach that develops and evaluates technology innovation and promotes environmental stewardship. Sandia conducts applied research to improve the performance and reliability of MHK technologies while lowering the cost of energy.





Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/renewable-energy/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s Photovoltaic (PV) Program conducts research to improve the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of PV components and systems through testing and characterization, modeling and analysis, and systems engineering. This work spans the range of cell and device R&D; laboratory-based component and system evaluation, characterization and optimization of fully fielded PV systems, accelerated lifetime testing, inverter and power electronics development and characterization, on-site weather and irradiance data analysis; and removal of technical and nontechnical barriers through codes and standards, new technology development, and assistance to project-implementing partners.

Sandia’s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Program performs R&D on next generation CSP at Sandia National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). The goal of the program is to support the CSP industry and provide solutions that assist a large-scale adoption of CSP. Sandia works to develop CSP technologies for electricity, process heat, hydrogen and fuels. The CSP team partners to develop CSP from concept to large scale testing at the NSTTF, the only large-scale high-flux testing facility in North America.




Contact Name: Elizabeth Lucero, Anthe George, Lily ShainWebsite: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/sustainable-transportation/bioenergy/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Foundational S&T that focuses on lignocellulosic, waste & algal biomass feedstocks for production of renewable, high performance fuels and bio-advantaged products to facilitate and safeguard the nation’s bioeconomy. Unique capabilities include advanced imaging and spectroscopy, lignin characterization, high-throughput enzyme assays, microfluidic devices for biofuels research, systems analysis, techno-economic modeling, and computational bioscience for advanced bioproducts & biofuels production.

Lignocellulosic Fuels/Products• Advanced technologies break down biomass and

liberate sugars for conversion to biofuels, creating a newtoolbox to transform intermediaries into fuels

• Pioneering a new process to convert lignin to renewablefuels & chemicals using ionic liquids to increase thesugar yields from diverse feedstocks

• Understanding/developing a wide range ofbiochemical, chemical, thermochemical approaches todepolymerizing lignin to increase its value

• Lifecycle analysis, techno-economic modeling ofbiorefineries

• Developing computational tools for retrosyntheticanalysis

Algal Fuels & ProductsAlgal strain improvement develops highly productive algal strains that resist predators & environmental stressors and are suitable for cultivation in large-scale algal farming operations.

Strain improvement R&D includes:• Prospecting/isolating algae strains to identify those with

desirable properties• Investigating biological improvements from

breeding, modification, genetic engineering toimprove photosynthetic efficiency, growth rates, lipidproductivity, biomass yield, or other desirable traits

• Tools/methods to rapidly screen strains for promisingtraits and productivity

Commercial scale algae production could meet U.S. transportation fuel needs. Algal biofuels use a relatively small land area versus lignocellulosic fuels—fuels produced from agricultural waste or energy crops. Microalgae consume CO2 as a nutrient, grow using impaired (e.g., brackish) water sources on land that does not compete with food, and produce much higher fuel yields than other land grown biomass feedstocks.

Focus:• Production/conversion of whole turf algae polycultures

that maximize fuels, chemicals and other nutrients• Real time diagnostics and monitoring of pathogens and

predators to mitigate crop losses from pond crashes• Efficient and economical methods to remove water from

algal ponds• Metals remediation, water management and nutrient

recycling

BIOENERGY



Contact Name: Irene Trujillo, Kailey Wulfert, Abraham Ellis

Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/energy-efficiency/

Background, Interest, and Capabilities:Sandia’s Energy Efficiency program enhances the energy competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and building technologies. It leverages strengths that have grown out of Sandia’s broader NNSA mission, including materials synthesis and characterization; extreme environment testing; microelectronics; physics- and data-driven process and product performance modeling and simulation tools; energy systems prognostics and controls; and supply chain security. Our research can be applied to areas such as: energy efficient advanced computing; advanced power electronics and solid-state lighting; novel ink formulations for scalable roll-to-roll and additive manufacturing; energy-efficient cooling and water treatment technologies; sensors and components for harsh environments; and energy systems integration and controls.

Sandia’s Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Program focuses on developing novel and secure materials and processing technologies enhanced by foundational process-property-performance understanding through data science, modeling and simulation, metrology and control, supply-chain security, and digital-direct processing. Examples include high-temperature alloys and composites for transportation and energy conversion applications; energy-saving microelectronics interconnects with atomically precise manufacturing; models for materials and process design of passive cooling surfaces; and high-performing catalyst materials for producing environmentally friendly fuels.

OTHER ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES #1 – ENERGY EFFICIENCY (ADVANCED MANUFACTURING)

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