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DOE OSTI2026

Inkjet Printing to Scale Perovskite and Silicon Tandem Solar Cell: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-17-00690

The proposed project seeks to develop a method for inkjet printing of the active layer in perovskite solar cells for application in stand-alone products or added to conventional silicon solar cells in a mechanically-stacked tandem configuration. This technology presents significant advanced manufacturing challenges and opportunities in getting to scale, including development of novel uses for printing technologies and development of predictive quality control techniques.

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DOE OSTI2020

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between National Energy Technology Laboratory and Raytheon Technologies Corporation [Abstract]

KIER and NETL will collaborate to study hydrate-based technologies to enhance desalination, gas separation, and hydrocarbon flow through pipelines and wellbores. With optimized selections of hydrate formers and reactors, gas hydrates can be effective and economic mechanisms of separation for solid-water and gas mixtures, and gas hydrate formation or dissociation can be significantly delayed or expedited with suitably selected additives. Comprehensive laboratory studies, including identifying novel hydrate formers or inhibitors to control temperature and pressure requirements and understanding their working mechanism or developing reactor systems for production of large quantities of hydrates, will be performed at both KIER and NETL either parallelly or serially.

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DOE OSTI2020

Boosting Energy Efficiency of Heterogeneous Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) Fleets via Anticipative and Cooperative Vehicle Guidance

In 2017, the Department of Energy funded a team at Clemson University and Argonne National Laboratory to develop collaborative perception and anticipative/predictive vehicle guidance schemes for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) and to quantify the energy saving potential of this technology in large scale traffic microsimulations at different levels of technology penetration and also experimentally. The project goal was demonstrating up to a 10% energy saving potential from different aspects of the implementation with a focus on reducing unnecessary braking events by anticipatory speed and lane selection. This project introduced novel anticipative car following and lane selection schemes for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). Our control schemes benefited from prediction of human driver behavior, information exchange between CAVs, and sometimes from collaboration to save energy, reduce braking events, and harmonize traffic. The energy savings was first demonstrated by traffic micro-simulations and then via a novel Vehicle-In-the-Loop (VIL) experimental testbed.

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DOE OSTI2020

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement among National Energy Technology Laboratory, University of Wyoming, and Energy Capital Economic Development [Abstract]

NETL is partnering with the University of Wyoming (UW) and ECED to mature a promising process for the recovery of rare earth elements (REE) and critical metals (CM) from the Powder River Basin (PRB) in Wyoming. The project will identify promising ash candidates from operating power generation facilities and optimize NETL’s proprietary REE and CM extraction and enrichment process for those materials, ultimately culminating in the creation and start-up of a pilot-scale production facility. This facility will demonstrate process performance and validate project economics, reducing the risk and uncertainty for further scale-up.

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DOE OSTI2020

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between National Energy Technology Laboratory and Ohio University [Abstract]

Ohio University and NETL will collaborate in the area of hydraulic fracturing and chemical treatment of gas and oil producing subsurface formations. The collaboration will provide Ohio University access to the J200 LIBS measurement machine, as well as training, facilities, and experts at NETL. NETL will gain access to Ohio University’s Point Pleasant formation shale samples and analysis results. The goal of this project is to determine the effects of chemical exposure on the face of the shale samples and how this exposure may affect hydrocarbon production. This work could help bring understanding to hydrocarbon movement within this formation and the effect hydraulic fracturing and other chemical treatments have on long-term hydrocarbon production. During this project the two parties will work together to generate and analyze experimental data from shale samples to develop a journal paper co-authored by both parties.

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DOE OSTI2026

HelioScope Energy Performance Modeling Validation: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-17-00685

HelioScope is a unique solar design and energy performance modeling tool that bridges the worlds of research and industry, bringing the most rigorous methods from the performance modeling community to thousands of solar developers of all backgrounds. However, many financial institutions and municipalities are hesitant to accept the energy production modeling results of HelioScope (including shading losses) in place of costly, time-intensive, and/or redundant methods due to lack of vetting from a respected institution like NREL. We expect that the proposed validation exercises will give municipalities and financial institutions the comfort needed to incorporate HelioScope into their operations, thereby significantly reducing the needs of existing and potential HelioScope users' to otherwise obtain information that HelioScope produces automatically. Folsom Labs was selected for a Small Business Voucher from the U.S. Department of Energy for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to validate the performance of HelioScope’s simulation engine against measured PV system performance.

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DOE OSTI2026

Region-Specific Merchant Hydrogen Market Assessment and Techno-Economic Assessment of Electrolytic Hydrogen Generation: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-18-00751

Utilities need to recover value from baseload and some renewable assets even when the electricity is curtailed. The declining cost of renewables (particularly solar), the persistently low-cost of natural gas, and the declining electricity demand, have all worked to lower the price of electricity. Furthermore, the baseload assets have a high turndown cost, which is not reflected in the low market electricity prices. One option for utilizing the curtailed electricity is hydrogen generation. One important aspect of this project will be to provide a “go/no-go” recommendation on the economic feasibility of pursuing hydrogen generation vs. other markets that could offtake curtailed electricity or nuclear steam. This project will specifically assess the opportunities for hydrogen production and use in the service territories of Southern Company Services (SCS), Exelon SBC, and Xcel Energy. Each utility partner represents a different mix of generation fleets: Exelon has significant nuclear assets, Xcel is primarily renewables (wind) with some nuclear, and SCS represents both a renewables fleet and a heavily baseload fleet, which includes significant nuclear. The Contractors will conduct the study of hydrogen market opportunities by first considering the approximate electricity demand and price profiles for the year, and power generation capacity that can be used to produce hydrogen. Therefore, a profile for hydrogen generation will also be developed to better understand the quantity and timing of hydrogen production. Once the hydrogen production schedule is estimated, hydrogen storage requirements can be determined. This effort will provide sufficient information to make a go/no-go decision on moving ahead with a detailed regional case study for hydrogen production in any of the three utility areas.

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DOE OSTI2021

Isobutanol Octane Blending Model with Gasoline: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-17-00689

The purpose of this agreement between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Gevo, under the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot, is to develop a predictive octane blending model for isobutanol and blendstocks for oxygenated blending (BOBs). Validated models of ethanol octane blending effects are currently used in refinery blending models. While it is known that isobutanol increases octane when blended into BOBs, the effect is non-linear, and dependent on hydrocarbon blendstock properties. Because no predictive model currently exists for isobutanol and BOBs, blenders must perform expensive and time-consuming tests to determine the octane effect on each batch of finished fuel. NREL will make basic measurements of research octane number (RON) and motor octane number (MON) of finished gasoline-isobutanol blends prepared in a broad range of BOBs. The key properties and detailed composition of BOBs utilized will be measured by NREL. Using these measured fuel properties, NREL will develop a predictive octane blending model for isobutanol in BOBs that can be used by terminals to further reduce barriers to market penetration of isobutanol.

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DOE OSTI2021

Strengthening Technical Safeguards of Fresh Fuel Through International Cooperation

Over time, nuclear fuel designs have shifted towards having higher initial enrichments and a greater number of burnable poison rods. This enables increased burnup for commercial reasons. These changes have made safeguards measurements of the 235 U content in modern fresh fuel more challenging.This is addressed here through a re-evaluation of the UNCL (Uranium Neutron Collar–Light Water Reactor Fuel)poison rod correction factor. Coefficients of the poison rod correction factor were updated by simulating response of AngraII PWR fuel with a wide range of both burnable poison rods and Gd 2 O 3 contentper rod. Benchmark comparisons are made to experiments performed at Resende (Brazil) and CNEN/LASAL in Brazil. By updating these coefficients, while maintaining the same mathematical form to allow INCC to be used without software modification,it was possible to reduce error in experimental 235 U linear density assay by an order of magnitude.

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DOE OSTI2021

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between National Energy Technology Laboratory and Ampere Scientific [Abstract]

Electro-Slag-Remelting (ESR) is an industry standard process used to manufacture alloys for mission critical components associated with energy, aerospace, defense, and other applications. For example, ESR is specifically used in the production and refinement of Nickel (Ni)-alloys such as IN 740H used for critical turbine applications. The aim of this CRADA is to develop and validate a sensor technology to monitor the melting of ingots during the ESR. The sensor will allow for feedback on the melting operation, allowing the operator to make adjustment on the fly and produce better ingots. Further, through better control, operators can more efficiently produce ingots by ESR.

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DOE OSTI2020

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between National Energy Technology Laboratory and University of Texas at Austin [Abstract]

The project is a collaboration in the area of water filtration, including for produced waters from subsurface formations. The collaboration will provide University of Texas at Austin access to the J200 LIBS measurement machine, as well as training, facilities, and experts at NETL. NETL will gain access to UTA’s proprietary membrane samples and analysis results. The goal of this project is to determine the effects of ion depth penetration as a function of exposure on the face of the membrane samples and how this exposure may affect overall filtration efficiency. This work could help bring understanding to improved water filtration for contaminated produced waters. During this project the two parties will work together to generate and analyze experimental data from the novel filter samples to develop a journal paper co-authored by both parties.

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DOE OSTI2026

Garnet/PVDF-HFP Hybrid Membranes for Li-Metal Batteries: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-19-00807

Hazen Research, Inc., in collaboration with University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-B) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will develop and demonstrate a ceramic-polymer hybrid membrane based on garnet (Li7La3Zr2O12) and PVDF (Poly Vinylidene Fluoride)-HFP (Hexafluoropropylene) adaptable to Li-metal anodes. Under this CRADA, NREL will test the developed membranes providing feedback and advice to demonstrate hybrid membranes with Li-ion conductivity >10-4 S/cm at room temperature that are stable with Li-metal, followed by demonstration of full cells with Li-metal anode.

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DOE OSTI2021

Furthering Advancements to Shorten the Time (FAST) to Commissioning for Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) Prize (Penn State-PNNL): Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-19-00842

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) initiated a Prize with support from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office (DOE WPTO) to encourage ideas to reduce the time to commissioning for PSH projects. As a result, nine finalists have been chosen to develop their concepts in advance of the FAST Prize Pitch Contest to be held on October 7, 2019. The national labs will provide technical and business advisement to the noted FAST Prize finalists in preparation for this Pitch Contest.

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DOE OSTI2026

Performance of Quantum Dot Coatings for Luminescent Solar Concentrating Windows: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-16-00640

The two major outcomes from this DOE supported collaboration between UbiQD and NREL were: 1) an expert analysis/modeling of the expected performance and cost of luminescent solar concentrating windows with quantum dot coatings, and 2) critical R&D characterization of materials and device performance analysis using equipment and processes that are too expensive for UbiQD to perform in-house. The latter also included third-party validation of the device performance with an NREL-certified conversion efficiency that was ultimately published. (see ACS Energy Lett. 2018 and recently ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020).

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DOE OSTI2020

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between National Energy Technology Laboratory and Pyrochem Catalyst Company [Abstract]

A catalytic converter is a key enabling technology for more advanced engine technologies to meet the more stringent fuel economy and emission standards of the future, particularly the requirement to treat emissions formed during a cold start (which account for between 60-80% of total emissions). As internal combustion engine technology is expected to remain a dominant force in the market, new and innovative catalyst technologies are needed with low temperature activity to reduce exhaust pollutants by 90% at temperatures as low as 150°C, with a performance lifetime that exceeds 150,000 miles of driving. Considering current catalyst technology only starts to convert pollutants at 200°C, the challenge is significant. Pyrochem Catalyst Company (PCC) has developed a promising PyroCatTM pyrochlore catalyst technology (that incorporates an NETL technology licensed by PCC), which has shown activity better than current state of the art and approaching the 150°C target. NETL and PCC will collaborate to transition PyroCatTM from lab-scale testing to commercialization through the generation of a commercially representative monolith catalyst that can be sent to automotive companies and catalyst manufacturers to validate in their reactor systems.

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DOE OSTI2021

Furthering Advancements to Shorten the Time (FAST) to Commissioning for Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) Prize: Cooperative Research and Development, CRADA Number CRD-19-00837 (Final Report)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) initiated a Prize with support from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office (DOE WPTO) to encourage ideas to reduce the time to commissioning for PSH projects. As a result, nine finalists have been chosen to develop their concepts in advance of the FAST Prize Pitch Contest to be held on October 7, 2019. The national labs will provide technical and business advisement to the noted FAST Prize finalists in preparation for this Pitch Contest.

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DOE OSTI2022

CRADA with FedIMPACT, LLC (Project 1): Cooperative Research and Development CRADA Number CRD-17-00713 (Final Report)

The funds-in under the CRADA will fund a team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers to participate in Energy I-Corps (formerly known as Lab-Corps). Energy I-Corps pairs teams of researchers with industry mentors for an intensive two-month training where the researchers define technology value propositions, conduct customer discovery interviews, and develop viable market pathways for their technologies. FedIMPACT, LLC and its affiliate IP Group, Inc. will evaluate the work completed at Energy I-Corps to determine whether it would like to pursue further commercialization and development of related technologies and background intellectual property.

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