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Energy
Technology Area • The Energy technology area contains advancements that address some of the most significant national challenges across the energy, climate, and infrastructure sectors. Sandia’s energy research addresses generation, storage, transmission, and distribution. Work is aimed at promoting energy resilience, stability, and security.  This technology area also contains specialized portfolios related to:  Energy...

Energy efficiency management system and method
Patent • #8,340,832. Exemplary embodiments of the computerized management system for controlling energy consumption for energy consumers using a smart meter may include a database that contains contract provisions for energy consumers. Furthermore, exemplary embodiments of the system include a database interface adapted to allow the system to access the contract provisions...

Energy efficient robot
Patent • #10,144,464. A locomotion subassembly for a biped robot is disclosed. The locomotion subassembly includes several unique energy transfer mechanisms and arrangements for efficiently powering the motion of the robot.

Energy Storage Systems for Electrical Microgrids with Pulsed Power Loads
Patent • #11,316,363. Pulsed power loads (PPLs) are highly non-linear and can cause significant stability and power quality issues in an electrical microgrid. According to the present invention, many of these issues can be mitigated by an Energy Storage System (ESS) that offsets the PPL. The ESS can maintain a constant bus...

Energy storage-based packetized delivery of electricity
Patent • #11936185. Systems and methods for Energy Storage-based Packetized Delivery of Electricity (ES-PDE) are disclosed that are radically different from the operation of today's grid. Using ES-PDE, the loads are powered by the energy storage systems (ESS) the majority of the time and only receive packets of electricity periodically to charge...

Engineered high expansion glass-ceramics having near linear thermal strain and methods thereof
Patent • #9,878,944. The present invention relates to glass-ceramic compositions, as well as methods for forming such composition. In particular, the compositions include various polymorphs of silica that provide beneficial thermal expansion characteristics (e.g., a near linear thermal strain). Also described are methods of forming such compositions, as well as connectors including...

Engineered high expansion glass-ceramics having near linear thermal strain and methods thereof
Patent • #10,059,625. The present invention relates to glass-ceramic compositions, as well as methods for forming such composition. In particular, the compositions include various polymorphs of silica that provide beneficial thermal expansion characteristics (e.g., a near linear thermal strain). Also described are methods of forming such compositions, as well as connectors including...

Enhanced distributed energy resource system
Patent • #7,239,044. A power transmission system including a direct current power source electrically connected to a conversion device for converting direct current into alternating current, a conversion device connected to a power distribution system through a junction, an energy storage device capable of producing direct current connected to a converter, where...

Enhanced Electronic Sensors
Featured Opportunity • A new embedded electrode structure can enable enhanced electronic sensing for medical diagnostic and curative measures Conventional planar electrodes face significant challenges when dealing with bulk materials with dispersive transport. Due to restricted electric field distributions and limited charge transport, their surface electrode structures often struggle to effectively sense signals...

Enhanced Functional Alloys with High Strength and Ductility
Featured Opportunity • A technique for tailoring the mechanical properties of traditionally low-strength and low ductility alloys using laser beam powder bed fusion (LB-PBF) additive manufacturing Additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented design freedom that can lead to novel materials development. Intermetallic alloys have useful magnetic properties such as high permeability, low coercivity, and...

Enhanced selectivity of zeolites by controlled carbon deposition
Patent • #7,041,616. A method for carbonizing a zeolite comprises depositing a carbon coating on the zeolite pores by flowing an inert carrier gas stream containing isoprene through a regenerated zeolite at elevated temperature. The carbonized zeolite is useful for the separation of light hydrocarbon mixtures due to size exclusion and the...

Enhanced Substrates for Controlled Explosive Properties
Featured Opportunity • Improved control of initiation and detonation from enhanced substrates with minimal post-processing and fabrication compared to traditional explosive processes In high explosives, the density and porosity of energetic materials contributes to initiation and detonation characteristics. Traditional explosive processing methods like melt casting or powder pressing are known for their less...

Enhancement of utilization of encryption engine
Patent • #7,362,859. A method of enhancing throughput of a pipelined encryption/decryption engine for an encryption/decryption process has a predetermined number of stages and provides feedback around the stages (and of such an encryption/decryption engine) by receiving a source datablock for a given stage and encryption/decryption context identifier; indexing according to the...

Enrichment of amino acids from biomass residuum
Patent • #11,326,193. The present invention relates to methods of providing a biomass residuum and compositions thereof. In particular examples, the biomass residuum includes one or more high value amino acids, even after removal of mixed alcohol components. In particular, the methods include implementing pre-treatment conditions and employing fermentation conditions including modified...
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