Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Kandt, Alicen J.
This presentation gives an overview of the Energy/Water Nexus, including drivers and pressures, using water to produce energy, and using energy to process water. The availability of adequate water supplies has an impact on the availability of energy, and energy production and generation activities affect the availability and quality of water.
This presentation offers background on GSA's Green Proving Ground (GPG) and DOE's High Impact Technology (HIT) Catalyst work, and a field study that assessed a plug load management (PLM) system in two commercial building applications. The Ibis InteliNetwork (TM) PLM system enables users to measure and analyze device energy use and identify opportunities for reduction of plug load energy use, and set times for individual devices (or groups of devices) to turn off when not in use. The presentation gives an overview of the PLM demonstration project, its results, and lessons learned.
This presentation for the 2017 Energy Exchange in Tampa, Florida, offers information about advanced auditing technologies and techniques including alternative auditing approaches and considerations and caveats.
This presentation for the 2017 Energy Exchange in Tampa, Florida, offers information about the energy water nexus, including water risks and security, project development, and operational resilience.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [1] to field sensors that accurately track different types of transportation across the northern border of the U.S.. To do this, the sensors require remote power so that they can be placed in the most advantageous geographical locations, often where no grid power is available. This enables the sensors to detect and track aircraft/vehicles despite natural features (e.g., mountains, ridges, valleys, trees) that often prevent standard methods (e.g., monostatic radar or visual observers) from detecting them. Without grid power, portable power systems were used to provide between 80 and 300 W continuously, even in bitter cold and when buried under feet of snow/ice. NREL provides details about the design, installation, and lessons learned from long-term deployment of a second-generation of novel power systems that used adjustable-angle photovoltaics (PV), lithium ion batteries, and fuel cells that provide power to achieve 100% up-time.