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INL researchers are studying ways to provide practical carbon-free energy options for people and industries, including microgrid systems, water treatment capabilities and sustainable chemical production. Their work combines world-class technologies to bring more renewable and sustainable solutions into today’s industrial landscape.
INL’s Energy and Environment (EES&T) is responding with innovations in transportation systems, clean energy, advanced manufacturing and environmental sustainability.
Two flow battery units allow researchers to study the batteries’ ability to stabilize renewable energy within microgrids and interact with larger-scale grids.
Flowability of biomass is vital to the efficiency of bioenergy systems. INL offers research capabilities that improve flowability through rigorous testing and modeling.
INL researchers are developing a Java-based software package called General Line Ampacity State Solver (GLASS), which calculates real-time ampacity and thermal conductor limits.
INL led the creation of an eight-laboratory GRSL that will study how electricity can be rerouted across vast distances to address disruptions.
Advanced pelleting processes at INL can reduce transportation costs and improve flowability, processing performance and conversion performance for biorefineries.
Idaho National Laboratory partnerships within the state of Utah illustrate a growing relationship that makes sense both geographically and academically.
INL researchers developed the Hydropower Technology Catalog, a digital, online interface that guides users to technologies that expand generation at existing sites and identify components or structures needed for new projects.
IMB acquires multipoint impedance spectra in as little as 10 seconds, providing detail of a battery’s condition and state of health.
INL battery research is the most comprehensive in the nation, combining real world applications and laboratory test data into reliable information.
The Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory (DETAIL) will link a grid simulator with a simulated nuclear plant.
INL is leading a research effort evaluating the ability of run-of-river hydropower to provide grid balancing through integration with an energy storage system.
Fractionation capabilities and research at INL support innovative biomass feedstock processes, reducing costs and improving supply chain logistics.
INL’s energy system testing integrates simulation, storage systems, a renewable energy microgrid, load control capabilities and full-scale testing.
Adding hydropower generation to a small fraction of existing non-powered dams represents a significant opportunity to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions with minimal environmental impact. To realize this opportunity, researchers at INL and PNNL developed an interactive, web-based tool.
INL’s Nondestructive Battery Evaluation Laboratory (NOBEL), allowing researchers to study in detail how batteries perform in aggressive environments.
INL’s PERL is equipped with tools to test, validate and develop solutions for recent challenges facing the modern power grid.
The PDU allows industry partners to test a variety of size reduction, milling, drying, pelletizing, cubing, torrefaction, and mechanical and chemical separation options.
INL Power and Energy Systems researchers helped build a system to maintain and restore power after a catastrophic event or a cyberattack.
Idaho National Laboratory researchers developed a hybrid system that harnesses the power of water and energy storage.
A simulated control room allows engineers to evaluate how operators interact with technology to make the grid safer and more efficient.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory are using a cutting-edge Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor system to design advanced catalytic materials that use far less energy and minimize waste production.
INL's Electrochemical Processing and Electrocatalysis (EPEC) Lab helps researchers discover better ways to convert inexpensive materials to higher value chemicals, fuels and hydrogen.
INL's Thermal Energy Delivery System demonstrates flexible heat transfer for power generation, energy storage and other industrial uses.
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