IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received three funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund program.
The funding, totaling $1.4 million with an additional cost share of $800,000, will help further the lab’s groundbreaking work in grid resilience, nuclear power plant reliability and modeling/simulation. The Technology Commercialization Fund program is highly competitive and supports the commercialization of DOE national laboratory technologies and building the national lab commercialization ecosystem.
“These awards are a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of our researchers and partners,” said Dani Ferreira, INL technology transfer and intellectual property management specialist. “They reflect INL’s commitment to delivering real-world solutions that benefit the nation.”
The projects are:
- The Self-Healing Power Systems Toolbox (principal investigators: Becca Avery and Michael Ropp, Sandia National Laboratory), which could help microgrids maintain power in case of outage or attack.
- The Visualization for Predictive Maintenance Reminder tool (principal investigator: Vivek Agarwal), which presents nuclear power plant engineers and analysts with system health diagnostics, metrics and actionable recommendations.
- A self-guided training platform for the MOOSE multiphysics modeling and simulation platform and its associated codes (principal investigator: Kyle Gamble).
The awards underscore INL’s role as a national leader in energy development and security, and its ability to translate research into impactful outcomes through collaboration with industry, government and academic partners.
For more information about INL’s research and innovation, visit https://inl.gov.
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