Factsheets
Integrated Energy
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.
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Energy and Environment Science & Technology
Energy and Environment Science & Technology
INL’s Energy and Environment (EES&T) is responding with innovations in transportation systems, clean energy, advanced manufacturing and environmental sustainability.
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General Information
Advanced Catalysis Research
Advanced Catalysis Research
Catalysis research at INL focuses on top energy-consuming chemicals, next-generation catalysts and process technologies
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Aluminum Electroplating Using Bromide Salts
Aluminum Electroplating Using Bromide Salts
INL researchers have developed electroplating processes involving bromide salts that result in thick, uniform and smooth metallic aluminum coatings.
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Chemical Sciences Research Capabilities
Chemical Sciences Research Capabilities
A diverse array of capabilities and expertise relevant to petroleum science.
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Electric Field Assisted Sintering Techniques
Electric Field Assisted Sintering Techniques
EFAS supports the decarbonization of metals, ceramics and composite material manufacturing through process electrification.
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Electrochemical Activation of Small Alkanes
Electrochemical Activation of Small Alkanes
Electrochemical processing of ethane, uses up to 65 percent less energy and captures hydrogen instead of burning it off.
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Electrochemical Recycling Electronic Constituents of Value (E-RECOV)
E-RECOV
The Electrochemical Recycling Electronic Constituents of Value (E-RECOV) method uses an electrochemical cell to efficiently recover the bulk of metals from discarded electronics.
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Temporal Analysis of Products
Temporal Analysis of Products
The Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor system designs advanced catalytic materials that use far less energy and minimize waste production.
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Water Security Test Bed
Water Security Test Bed
The WSTB can be used for research related to detecting and decontaminating chemical, biological or radiological agents following a man-made or natural disaster.
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Water Technology Innovation Program
Water Technology Innovation Program
The Water Technology Innovation Program establishes leadership in water technology innovation and demonstration. The program aims to reduce today’s water treatment energy costs.
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Active Measurement Cancellation
Active Measurement Cancellation
Active Measurement Cancellation (AMC) is a real-time method for directly measuring impedance without the use of an imbedded system shunt.
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Advanced Transportation
Advanced Transportation
INL’s Advanced Vehicle program provides unbiased, real-world testing for advanced vehicles such as plug-in electric cars.
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Battery Advanced DiaGnostics Evaluation (BADGE) Platform
Battery Advanced DiaGnostics Evaluation (BADGE) Platform
INL researchers view and analyze data collected from the BADGE system in real time.
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Battery Health Sentry
Battery Health Sentry
The Battery Health Sentry offers a new metric that prevents catastrophic failure by detecting internal shorts and assessing battery safety.
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Caldera: Electric Vehicle Charging Simulation Platform
Caldera: Electric Vehicle Charging Simulation Platform
Caldera is an ideal platform for developing and testing smart charging strategies, which can lessen grid stress from widespread and high-power EV charging.
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Delivering better Batteries through machine learning
Delivering better Batteries through machine learning
As industries push to decarbonize, the need for better batteries is urgent.
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Impedance Measurement Box
Impedance Measurement Box
IMB acquires multipoint impedance spectra in as little as 10 seconds, providing detail of a battery’s condition and state of health.
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INL’s Battery Test Center
INL’s Battery Test Center
INL battery research is the most comprehensive in the nation, combining real world applications and laboratory test data into reliable information.
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Nondestructive Battery Evaluation Laboratory (NOBEL)
Nondestructive Battery Evaluation Laboratory (NOBEL)
INL’s Nondestructive Battery Evaluation Laboratory (NOBEL), allowing researchers to study in detail how batteries perform in aggressive environments.
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Advanced Torrefaction System
Advanced Torrefaction System
INL’s ATS allows researchers and industry to torrefy wood chips, agriculture residues and municipal solid waste for lab- and pilot-scale testing.
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Bioenergy Feedstock Characterization Laboratory
Bioenergy Feedstock Characterization Laboratory
The laboratory features advanced capabilities for sample preparation, characterization, analyzing storage performance and predicting conversion performance.
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Bioenergy Feedstock Library
Bioenergy Feedstock Library
The Bioenergy Feedstock Library is an extensive collection of data on biomass feedstock characteristics compiled in an easy-to-access central repository.
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Chemical Preprocessing
Chemical Preprocessing
The use of chemical preprocessing using thermal, chemical or biological treatments can produce value-added bioenergy feedstocks.
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Flowability of Biomass
Flowability of Biomass
Flowability of biomass is vital to the efficiency of bioenergy systems. INL offers research capabilities that improve flowability through rigorous testing and modeling.
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High-Moisture Pelleting Process
High-Moisture Pelleting Process
Advanced pelleting processes at INL can reduce transportation costs and improve flowability, processing performance and conversion performance for biorefineries.
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Mechanical Fractionation
Mechanical Fractionation
Fractionation capabilities and research at INL support innovative biomass feedstock processes, reducing costs and improving supply chain logistics.
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Process Development Unit
Process Development Unit
The PDU allows industry partners to test a variety of size reduction, milling, drying, pelletizing, cubing, torrefaction, and mechanical and chemical separation options.
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Waste to Bioproducts via DAIRIEES
Waste to Bioproducts via DAIRIEES
DAIRIEES is an evaluation platform that facilitates more informed decisions concerning the environmental benefits and economic costs of an integrated manure-algae system.
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A Novel Wind Atlas Modeling Method
A Novel Wind Atlas Modeling Method
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are working with the simulation company WindSim to develop a new wind atlas method using specialized software.
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Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid
Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid
The laboratory features advanced capabilities for sample preparation, characterization, analyzing storage performance and predicting conversion performance.
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Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory
DETAIL
INL’s test lab includes heat and electricity producers, thermal and electrical storage, and multiple heat and electricity customers via a thermal and electrical network.
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Dynamic Line Rating Overview
Dynamic Line Rating Overview
Wind energy researchers at Idaho National Laboratory believe moving more electricity through existing transmission and distribution lines is both possible and practical.
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Flow Battery Energy Storage System
Flow Battery Energy Storage System
Two flow battery units allow researchers to study the batteries’ ability to stabilize renewable energy within microgrids and interact with larger-scale grids.
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General Line Ampacity State Solver (GLASS)
General Line Ampacity State Solver (GLASS)
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.
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Global Real-Time Super Lab
Global Real-Time Super Lab
INL led the creation of an eight-laboratory GRSL that will study how electricity can be rerouted across vast distances to address disruptions.
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Integrated Energy Systems Overview
Integrated Energy Systems Overview
The Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory (DETAIL) will link a grid simulator with a simulated nuclear plant.
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Integrating Hydropower and Energy Storage
Integrating Hydropower and Energy Storage
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.
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Modernizing Irrigation Systems with Renewable Power
Modernizing Irrigation Systems with Renewable Power
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, are helping the private sector accelerate the modernization of irrigation systems through the publicly available tool IrrigationViz.
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Microgrids and Backup Power Systems
Microgrids and Backup Power Systems
INL’s energy system testing integrates simulation, storage systems, a renewable energy microgrid, load control capabilities and full-scale testing.
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Non-powered Dam Retrofit Research
Non-powered Dam Retrofit Research
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.
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Power and Energy Real-Time Laboratory
Power and Energy Real-Time Laboratory
INL’s PERL is equipped with tools to test, validate and develop solutions for recent challenges facing the modern power grid.
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RADIANCE Project
RADIANCE Project
INL Power and Energy Systems researchers helped build a system to maintain and restore power after a catastrophic event or a cyberattack.
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Refining Hydroelectric Power for Grid Resilience with Idaho Falls Power
Refining Hydroelectric Power for Grid Resilience
Idaho National Laboratory researchers developed a hybrid system that harnesses the power of water and energy storage.
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Safe Integration of New Grid Technologies
Safe Integration of New Grid Technologies
A simulated control room allows engineers to evaluate how operators interact with technology to make the grid safer and more efficient.
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The Electrochemical Processing and Electrocatalysis (EPEC) Lab
EPEC Lab
INL’s Electrochemical Processing and Electrocatalysis (EPEC) Lab helps researchers discover better ways to convert inexpensive materials to higher value chemicals, fuels and hydrogen.
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Thermal Energy Delivery System
Thermal Energy Delivery System
INL’s Thermal Energy Delivery System demonstrates flexible heat transfer for power generation, energy storage and other industrial uses.
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Transmission Line Modeling Tool Suite
Transmission Line Modeling Tool Suite
INL’s Transmission Line Modeling Tool Suite uses advanced systems that work together to increase power line efficiency.
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Digital Engineering
Digital Engineering
At Idaho National Laboratory (INL), researchers are adopting digital engineering to help tomorrow’s nuclear reactors and other advanced energy systems stay on track and improve performance once a project is complete.
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Digital Twins
Digital Twins
Digital twins powered by digital engineering allow novel technology to be adequately tested and monitored remotely, saving costs and improving operational safety.
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Collaborations
Biomass Feedstock National User Facility
Biomass Feedstock National User Facility
Biomass Feedstock National User Facility (BFNUF)researchers focus on innovative research and development associated with key technical barriers facing the U.S. bioenergy industry.
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How INL Unites with Utah
How INL Unites with Utah
Idaho National Laboratory partnerships within the state of Utah illustrate a growing relationship that makes sense both geographically and academically.
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