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DOE OSTI2013

Blade Testing Equipment Development and Commercialization: Cooperative Research and Development (Final Report)

Blade testing is required to meet wind turbine design standards, reduce machine cost, and reduce the technical and financial risk of deploying mass-produced wind turbine models. NREL's National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Colorado is the only blade test facility in the U.S. capable of performing full-scale static and fatigue testing of multi-megawatt-scale wind turbine blades. Rapid growth in wind turbine size over the past two decades has outstripped the size capacity of the NWTC blade test facility leaving the U.S. wind industry without a suitable means of testing blades for large land-based and offshore turbines. This CRADA will develop and commercialize testing technologies and test equipment, including scaling up, value engineering, and testing of equipment to be used at blade testing facilities in the U.S. and around the world.

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DOE OSTI2022

Equipment Testing Environment (ETE) Specification

Cyber security has been difficult to quantify from the perspective of defenders. The effort to develop a cyber-attack with some ability, function, or consequence has not been rigorously investigated in Operational Technologies. This specification defines a testing structure that allows conformal and repeatable cyber testing on equipment. The purpose of the ETE is to provide data necessary to analyze and reconstruct cyber-attack timelines, effects, and observables for training and development of Cyber Security Operation Centers. Standardizing the manner in which cyber security on equipment is investigated will allow a greater understanding of the progression of cyber attacks and potential mitigation and detection strategies in a scientifically rigorous fashion.

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DOE OSTI2022

Equipment Testing Environment (ETE) Process Specification

This document is intended to be utilized with the Equipment Test Environment being developed to provide a standard process by which the ETE can be validated. The ETE is developed with the intent of establishing cyber intrusion, data collection and through automation provide objective goals that provide repeatability. This testing process is being developed to interface with the Technical Area V physical protection system. The document will overview the testing structure, interfaces, device and network logging and data capture. Additionally, it will cover the testing procedure, criteria and constraints necessary to properly capture data and logs and record them for experimental data capture and analysis.

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DOE OSTI2019

Mechanical testing equipment for material characterization

A mechanical testing apparatus for a specimen is presented. The mechanical testing apparatus comprises a drop table system and a Hopkinson bar. The drop table system has a drop carriage. The Hopkinson bar is positioned parallel to a motion of the drop carriage and connected to the drop table system by the specimen.

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DOE OSTI2023

Direct measurement and calculation of rubber bulk modulus by piston-cylinder method using conventional mechanical testing equipment

This article describes a method to directly measure the bulk modulus of rubber using a piston-cylinder type apparatus. The function of the testing apparatus is to reliably transfer load to the water inside the vessel and allow for the accurate and continuous measurement of volumetric displacement as the contents are compressed. During the test, load is applied to a piston-cylinder containing the rubber test sample and water using a conventional mechanical testing load frame. Load and the travel of the piston are recorded by a load cell and extensometer, respectfully. A brass or stainless steel plug of the same dimensions as the test sample is tested as a control sample to isolate the compliance of the system, including the compressibility of water and compliance of the piston-cylinder. The results from this control test are used to disincorporate the compliance of the system from the sample test results. Load-linear displacement data are mathematically converted to pressure-volumetric displacement data, from which bulk modulus is calculated. The test apparatus and method are validated using the known bulk modulus of water. Finally, the bulk modulus for two similar rubbers is evaluated. The validity of the results and limitations of the device are discussed.

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DOE OSTI2015

Zirconium Recycle Test Equipment for Hot Cell Operations

The equipment components and assembly support work were modified for optimized, remote hot cell operations to complete this milestone. The modifications include installation of a charging door, Swagelok connector for the off-gas line between the reactor and condenser, and slide valve installation to permit attachment/replacement of the product salt collector bottle.

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DOE OSTI2025

Mitigation for the demolition of building 25-3124,equipment testing laboratory, area 25, Nevada national security site, NYE county, Nevada

The purpose of this letter report is to document the mitigation of adverse effects of a proposed undertaking that would demolish Building 25-3124 in Area 25 of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) in compliance with the terms of the 2024 Programmatic Agreement among the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Concerning the Protection of Historic Properties on the Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada (NNSS PA). Building 25-3124 (State Historic Preservation Office [SHPO] Resource # B19009) is a contributing element to the Nuclear Rocket Development Station (NRDS) Historic District (SHPO Resource # D424), which has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criteria A, B, C, and D (Reno et al. 2023). The proposed demolition constitutes an adverse effect. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office (NNSA/NFO) consulted with the SHPO on an adverse effect finding for the undertaking and notified the SHPO of its intent to use the standard mitigation in the NNSS PA on December 11, 2024 (Julian to Reed). The SHPO concurred on December 30, 2024 (Reed to Julian). Therefore, NNSA/NFO has prepared mitigation pursuant to the standard mitigation in the NNSS PA Appendix D.I.A for contributing elements to recorded, NRHP-eligible districts.

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DOE OSTI2023

High strain rate nanoindentation testing: Recent advancements, challenges and opportunities

Recent advancements in electronics have renewed the interest in high strain rate nanoindentation testing, resulting in the development of new high strain rate nanoindentation test equipment and test methodologies. Here, in this work, the current state-of-the-art in high strain rate nanoindentation testing is critically reviewed, with focus on three key aspects - the testing equipment's dynamic mechanical and electronic response, test methodology, and post-processing of raw data to obtain hardness and strain rate. The challenges in instrument hardware design and post-test data analysis are discussed, along with optimal strain rate window for accurate high strain rate measurements. Specific focus will be on instrumented high strain rate testing using self-similar indenters at strain rates in excess of 100 s -1 , wherein load and depth of penetration into the sample are both measured or applied.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2014

Metrology for Industry for use in the Manufacture of Grazing Incidence Beam Line Mirrors

The goal of this SBIR was to determine the slope sensitivity of Specular Reflection Deflectometry (SRD) and whether shearing methods had the sensitivity to be able to separate errors in the test equipment from slope error in the unit under test (UUT), or mirror. After many variations of test parameters it does not appear that SRD yields results much better than 1 μ radian RMS independent of how much averaging is done. Of course, a single number slope sensitivity over the full range of spatial scales is not a very insightful number in the same sense as a single number phase or height RMS value in interferometry does not tell the full story. However, the 1 μ radian RMS number is meaningful when contrasted with a sensitivity goal of better than 0.1 μ radian RMS. Shearing is a time proven method of separating the errors in a measurement from the actual shape of a UUT. It is accomplished by taking multiple measurements while moving the UUT relative to the test instrument. This process makes it possible to separate the two errors sources but only to a sensitivity of about 1 μ radian RMS. Another aspect of our conclusions is that this limit probably holds largely independent of the spatial scale of the test equipment. In the proposal for this work it was suggested that a test screen the full size of the UUT could be used to determine the slopes on scales of maybe 0.01 to full scale of the UUT while smaller screens and shorter focal length lenses could be used to measure shorter, or smaller, patches of slope. What we failed to take into consideration was that as the scale of the test equipment got smaller so too did the optical lever arm on which the slope was calculated. Although we did not do a test with a shorter focal length lens over a smaller sample area it is hard to argue with the logic that the slope sensitivity will be about the same independent of the spatial scale of the measurement assuming the test equipment is similarly scaled. On a more positive note, SRD does appear to be a highly flexible, easy to implement, rather inexpensive test for free form optics that require a dynamic range that exceeds that of interferometry. These optics are quite often specified to have more relaxed slope errors, on the order of 1 μ radian RMS or greater. It would be shortsighted to not recognize the value of this test method in the bigger picture.

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DOE OSTI2025

Solid oxide electrolysis cell and stack testing best practices

Solid oxide electrolyzer (SOE) technology is an emerging method for hydrogen production, noted for its superior electrical efficiency. Despite the significant progress made in recent years, the broad development of SOE technology is often constrained by the necessary and extensive "skill of the craft" required to successfully test simple single cell test articles. This may be linked to the dearth of practical and pragmatic guidance within the literature for safe, reliable, and performant test equipment and test procedures. Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have been actively testing SOEs ranging from button cells to stacks up to 500 kW, in collaboration with industry and other national laboratories. Based on operational experience, INL has developed system design procedures that ensure safe and reliable operation of SOE systems with the level of support required for each test. This paper presents key aspects of SOE stack and system testing, including safe design procedures, balance of plant components design, and specific implementations at INL. Practical design details of reactants, heat, and power management are presented along with lessons learned from the SOE test facility operations at INL.

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DOE OSTI2017

Creation of System Validation Platform

SNL and SunSpec were to create a System Validation Platform to verify the functionality of DERs with advanced grid functionality and utility communication capabilities. The Validation Platform software was to ensure DERs are compatible with new grid interconnection requirements for these advanced functions by communicating to equipment under test, data acquisition software, and test equipment.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2018

Criticality Safety Evaluation for 700 and 350 Gram Moderated Fissionable Equivalent (MFE) Criticality Control Areas (CCAs)

This evaluation is intended to generically apply to facilities and/or areas designated as CCAs that store and/or handle greater than 15 grams of fissionable material but no more than 700 grams of MFE. This evaluation includes facilities and/or areas designated as CCAs limited to no more than 350 grams of MFE. Activities performed in these CCAs may include general laboratory activities to include work in radiological areas, chemical procurement, material handling, sampling, imaging, non-destructive analysis, and disposing of nuclear and radiological materials. Materials included in these activities may include radioactive-contaminated oil, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and/or equipment. Fissionable materials may consist of transuranic (TRU) waste, sources containing fissionable material, uranium in various forms such as metal, oxide and silicide, however other forms of uranium and plutonium may be present. Fissionable materials may consist of fines from cutting, be solid forms mounted on a ring and embedded in epoxy or be in small volumes of dilute solutions resulting from cleaning or other processes. Major equipment located in these CCAs may include inert gas environment gloveboxes, fume hoods, ultrasonic testing equipment, hot presses, rolling mills, furnaces, gamma irradiators, autoclaves, machining equipment, tensile testing equipment, shears, forklifts and cranes.

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DOE OSTI2016

Development of an Industry Dynamometer/Spin Test Facility--Equipment Only: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-05-164

The Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (DOE/NREL) owns and operates a megawatt-scale dynamometer used for testing wind turbine drive trains up to 1.5 megawatt (MW) in rated capacity. At this time, this unit is the only unit of its type in the United States, available for use by the American Wind Industry. Currently this dynamometer is heavily backlogged and unavailable to provide testing needed by various wind industry members. DOE/NREL is in possession of two critical pieces of equipment that may be used to develop an alternative Dynamometer facility, but does not have the funds or other resources necessary to develop such a facility. The Participant possesses complimentary facilities and infrastructure that when combined with the NREL equipment can create such a test facility. The Participant is also committed to expending funds to develop and operate such a facility to the subsequent benefit of the Wind Industry and DOE Wind Energy program. In exchange for DOE/NREL providing the critical equipment, the Participant will grant DOE/NREL a minimum of 90 days of testing time per year in the new facility while incurring no facilities fees.

17 WIND ENERGY↗
DOE OSTI2024

Planning Roadmap for DER Integration in India: Industry Best Practices and Resource Guide

Ensuring safe, reliable, cost-effective DER integration at scale requires holistic planning, broad stakeholder engagement, and should address key development areas such as standards adoption, equipment testing and certification, interoperability and cybersecurity, interconnection procedures, and advanced forecasting and DER management. Each of these areas currently represent significant challenges for utilities, regulators, OEMs, developers, and even consumers worldwide. India has already seen significant growth of DERs and has announced targets for substantial growth yet to come, with the potential for DERs to make up a non-negligible portion of the country's overall generation capacity. As such, it is of critical importance that Indian stakeholders consider the potential impacts of wide-spread adoption of DERs and take preemptive action related to the five development areas listed here, among others. India should consider strategies including the adoption of key DER standards related to interconnection, testing, and cybersecurity; enabling effective and secure communication channels for DER interoperability; testing and certifying DER equipment in accredited testing laboratories; building robust, streamlined interconnection procedures; and revamping legacy system planning structures to incorporate DERs in a holistic planning framework.

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DOE OSTI2024

Offshore Wind Turbine Blade (85 to120meters ultra-long blade) static and fatigue test

Offshore blades are not just longer, they are wider, heavier and more flexible. These longer blades are a key component of larger wind turbines and for turbines to be more efficient in low wind speeds. These longer blades help reduce the LCOE further and make offshore wind even more competitive. As described earlier, it is essential for the blades to be fully tested to verify and validate the blade designs and manufacturing processes to ensure a reliable product is installed in the field. Through this project WTTC developed and procured new testing equipment required to test longer blades with larger deflections and higher loads. R&D’s BCDA system commissioned was the largest fatigue test exciter system in the world and set the bar for other blade testing facilities worldwide.

17 WIND ENERGY↗
DOE OSTI2016

Airside HVAC BESTEST. Adaptation of ASHRAE RP 865 Airside HVAC Equipment Modeling Test Cases for ASHRAE Standard 140. Volume 1, Cases AE101-AE445

This report documents a set of diagnostic analytical verification cases for testing the ability of whole building simulation software to model the air distribution side of typical heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. These cases complement the unitary equipment cases included in American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 140, Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs, which test the ability to model the heat-transfer fluid side of HVAC equipment.

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