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Sandia Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Experts Discuss Li-Ion Batteries with Fire Protection Engineers
On June 5, 2024, two members of the Safety & Reliability thrust in the Sandia Energy Storage program gave invited presentations at the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Engineering Solutions Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. The focus of the symposium was “Progress with Li-Ion Battery Fire Safety: Engineering Solutions to Mobility and Storage Hazards. Dr.… Read More
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Sandia and CUNY Partner to Examine Water-in-Salt Electrolytes
A team of researchers from the City College of New York and Sandia National Laboratories (Contact: Timothy N. Lambert) examined the impact of different acetate-based super-concentrated (or “water-in-salt”) electrolytes on zinc electrochemical performance at currents and material utilizations of practical relevance to industry (0.3-8 mA/cm2 and ~20 mAh/cm2 respectively). Data was collected to understand the… Read More
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Team of Sandians Address Challenges and Advancements in Grid Energy Storage Solutions
During the 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation, and Motion (SPEEDAM), held in Ischia, Italy from June 19-21, 2024, several research papers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Energy Storage Division were presented. These papers addressed critical challenges and advancements in grid energy storage solutions, battery state estimation,… Read More
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Sandian Electrical Engineer Presents on Four Anomaly Detection Methods at SPEEDAM
Sandian Electrical Engineer Presents on Four Anomaly Detection Methods at SPEEDAM Read More
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Sandia Senior Scientist Appointed Founding Chair of New IEEE Committee
Sandia Senior Scientist Appointed Founding Chair of New IEEE Committee Read More
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Sandia Policy Analyst Addresses LDES Commercialization at TechConnect Expo
Will McNamara, an Energy Storage Policy Analyst Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, delivered a presentation at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. The focus of Will’s presentation titled “Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Mapping the Pathway to Commercialization” was included in the Energy Storage: LDES Policy,… Read More
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Drs. Spoerke and Gyuk Co-Chair Energy Storage and LDES Symposium
Dr. Erik Spoerke, a former Materials Lead in the Sandia Energy Storage program and now Senior Analytics Advisor with the DOE Office of Electricity (OE), co-chaired the “Energy Storage: Toward Larger and Longer Duration Storage Deployment” symposium at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo June 17-18, 2024, in Washington D.C. Along with Dr.… Read More
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Sandians Conduct Li-ion Cycling Work during ECS Webinar
Dr. Reed Wittman and Dr. Yuliya Preger presented in the Electrochemical Society’s regular webinar series on June 12, 2024. They presented a summary of the long-term Li-ion cycling work that the safety and reliability team has been conducting since 2017. The talk titled “Degradation of Commercial Lithium-Ion Cells Beyond 80 Percent Capacity” covered the cycling… Read More
