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Electricity generation from solar installations continues to grow at a furious rate, with a large share of new solar capacity being installed on residential and commercial buildings. This rise in solar capacity on the distribution grid is beginning to create real challenges for grid planners and operators. Increasing solar generation at the distribution edge can affect power quality and reliabilit ...

While rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have dominated the portable electronics market for nearly a decade, they have failed to gain widespread commercial success in high power and high capacity applications. Despite a slow rate of improvement in battery cost and capacity each year, demand for a battery providing 400 Wh/kg, or double the specific energy of current state-of-the-art lithium-ion bat ...

There is a present and growing emphasis on reducing or maintaining the wateruse footprint in the energy sector. One of the requirements for effectively managing water is monitoring through reliable, realtime, measurementbased data of water quality/composition within treatment systems and bodies of water associated with power generation facilities. Many existing water quality sensor technologies ar ...

The feasibility of fusion as a practical energy source needs to be improved significantly by removing some of the restrictions that low temperature superconductors put on the fusion magnet systems. One method to simplify the magnet system is by using high temperature superconductors that allow for a higher magnet performance and much larger temperature margins. The larger temperature margins allow ...

Superconductors offer the promise of tremendous energy savings and innovative devices due to increased energy and power density compared to existing limitations of conventional conductors. To date the expense of manufacturing and operating superconductors have limited their use in little more than first generation superconductor wound cables and magnets in nuclear magnetic resonance devices and sc ...

Laser plasma accelerators LPA) enabled by the Tm laser driver to be developed by this project offer much reduced size and cost compared to conventional accelerators of the same energy. This would drastically cut the cost of high- energy particle research on collider-based facilities and advanced light sources. Planned conventional accelerators e.g., for the proposed International Linear Collider) ...

Advancements in sensors and instrumentation are needed to enhance economic competitiveness and improve/optimize the performance of existing and future nuclear power plants and nuclear power systems. A commonly noted sensor need for nuclear power systems is flow sensing in the various heat transfer mediums and to monitor/measure medium velocities and characterize mixing/cooling. The ability to depl ...

The potential longevity and number of dry storage systems employed for storage of used nuclear fuel necessitate a deliberate consideration of long-term data management approaches. Necessary considerations include approaches to ensure archival of data over multiple centuries and data fusion methods to facilitate decision making based on multiple streams of information. Also important is establishin ...

Our approach is to use DUV/VUV laser light to create the metastable Krypton used for dating ground water. The current arc method used leads to contamination of the electrodes, and therefore a lengthy cleaning process before another sample can be analyzed. In this work we propose to use single or multi-photon excitation through DUV/VUV laser systems which eliminated the need for arc discharge, and ...

Future accelerator applications for discovery science and industrial applications will require more intense beams than ever before. To get to this level while still safely transporting the beam requires new concepts in lattice design. One solution is the idea of using lattice designs with very strong nonlinearities, but still with bounded motion, to prevent the unstable collective dynamics that pl ...