Download or read book RFA for Solar Geothermal Hybrid Thermal Energy Storage Modeling Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 16 646 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyperlight Energy is an innovative concentrated solar power (CSP) company whose business charter is to commercialize a disruptively low-cost, CSP collector system that is ultimately for providing heat for solar thermal/geothermal hybrid power plants, process heat applications (e.g., enhanced oil recovery), and solar thermal power generation. Hyperlight's CSP collector system utilizes a linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) configuration. This LFR configuration consists of mirrors mounted in low-cost, precision plastic extrusions, which are integrated into raft assemblies and floated on low-cost, sealed waterbeds. Hyperlight's CSP collector technology has been developed under private equity investment, government grant and commercial funding. Hyperlight has been awarded a $1.5-million DOE COLLECTS contract with an additional $1.6 million in matched funds from private investment and the California Energy Commission. This DOE project will support the final steps of product development for bulk commercialization and deployment of the Hyperlight CSP collector system. The work will culminate in a final operational deployment at a commercially relevant site. Several such site options are currently under evaluation, including two geothermal sites. Hyperlight identified a very low-cost way to put renewable energy electrons on the grid at peak times, upgrading underutilized geothermal plants with Hyperlight's low cost CSP and thermal energy storage (TES). While Hyperlight's CSP collector work is maturing quickly for commercial pilot launch, an optimal TES system for solar thermal/geothermal hybridization needs to be evaluated and ultimately developed so Hyperlight can develop commercial retrofit projects at a scale of hundreds of megawatts of renewable energy power output at sites across the United States, followed by greenfield projects in a multi-GW sized market.
Download or read book Equipment Loan Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 07 250 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Site-specific, long-term, continuous, and high-resolution measurements of solar irradiance are important for developing renewable resource data. These data are used for several research and development activities consistent with the NREL mission: establish a national 30-year climatological database of measured solar irradiances; provide high quality ground-truth data for satellite remote sensingvalidation; support development of radiative transfer models for estimating solar irradiance from available meteorological observations; provide solar resource information needed for technology deployment and operations.
Download or read book Integration of a Concentrating Solar Steam Topping Turbine to an Existing Geothermal Binary Power Plant Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 17 700 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Geothermal Inc. is a publicly traded leading renewable energy company focused on the development, production, and sale of electricity from geothermal energy with operating generation facilities at Raft River, Idaho; San Emidio, Nevada; and Neal Hot Springs, Oregon. (U.S. Geothermal was acquired by Ormat Technologies, Inc. since the execution of this project). This project will evaluate the integration of a concentrating solar steam topping cycle with a geothermal bottoming binary cycle. This hybrid plant configuration will enable high efficiency conversion of the solar heat to electrical power, while simultaneously increasing the power output of the bottoming cycle. Such a design has the potential to reduce the cost of electrical power from concentrating solar power (CSP) and geothermal plants, and a viable design could be deployed at existing geothermal plants that have experienced resource productivity decline as well as in greenfield projects. This analysis will examine US Geothermal's Raft River power plant for implementation of this concept. INL and NREL have previously collaborated in the analysis of geo-solar hybrid power plants. These two labs will again work together to model the solar field, steam-topping, and geothermal bottoming cycles in order to investigate the performance of the proposed cycle. This analysis will provide US Geothermal with technical information including equipment specifications and estimated power generation necessary to advance the concept toward implementation. A successful project outcome has two parts: One would be for USGeothermal to have a process flow diagram (heat and mass balance), and performance parameters for the major pieces of equipment. USGeo could then use this information evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of the hybrid power cycle, and serve as the basis for subsequent detailed equipment design, purchase, and installation of the cycle. The second would be for the developed solution to be published by DOE for use by other geothermal developers both to retrofit underperforming plants and to lower the LCOE of new developments.
Download or read book Annual Report Geothermal Energy Research Development Demonstration Program written by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Division of Geothermal Energy and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bottom Up Costs and Market Analysis of the Horizontal Ribbon Growth HRG Technology Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 20 16762 written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American-Made Solar Prize is a prize competition from the U.S. Department of Energy that is designed to revitalize U.S. solar manufacturing. The competition aims to support the growth of U.S. solar manufacturing and reenergize American energy innovation by tapping into American's competitive spirit and the nation's unparalleled innovation ecosystem leveraging national labs, incubators, facilities and more. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) will provide technical and business advisement to the noted Solar Prize finalists. This CRADA will involve the development of a cost model of the CRADA Participant's horizontal ribbon growth (HRG) technology for making silicon wafers for solar cells.
Download or read book Ford AZTECS Vehicle Thermal Testing Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 09 340 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigation of a parked car ventilation strategy using the duct system that is part of a thermoelectric Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system.
Download or read book Research and Testing of Power Use of HPC Workload of Participant s HPC System Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 15 590 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CRADA (1) facilitates relocation of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, for and on behalf of the Colorado School of Mines, (MINES or Participant) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) supercomputing system into the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL or Contractor) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). This CRADA (1) facilitates testing High Performance Computing (HPC) application platform portability, scalability, electrical energy use, and performance for applications critical to each organization; (2) facilitates use of the existing facility electrical and thermal data collection systems at Contractor ESIF in support of characterizing HPC workload power use characterization; and (3) facilitates addition of application power use data on the Participant IBM supercomputing system into the Contractor ESIF Time Series data system to use/re-use existing methodology to profile application power use.
Download or read book Combined Cooling Heating and Power CCHP System Cooperative Research and Development Final Report CRADA Number CRD 14 570 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NREL and Be Power Tech, Inc. (Be Power) will jointly develop a new combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system that uses desiccants in combination with evaporative cooling and fuel cells. The combined system will have better economics and business case than a separate desiccant enhanced air conditioner and fuel cell system. The overall system is expected to become a net revenue generator by delivering power and air conditioning to a building while inputting natural gas and water. This development effort will revolve around adapting NREL's desiccant cooling technology to work with Be Power's proprietary system integration design for CCHP systems. The objective of the CRADA is to develop, then commercialize this CCHP system by jointly developing the system integration design, testing methods, and hardware for this system. The commercial name given to the CCHP system is BeCool.
Download or read book Solar Applications of Thermal Energy Storage written by United States. Department of Energy. Office of Conservation and Solar Applications and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thermal Energy Storage Subsystems for Solar Heating and Cooling Applications written by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Division of Solar Energy and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thermal Energy Storage Application to the Brick ceramic Industry written by D. R. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Between Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Inc LMES and National Institute for Environmental Renewal NIER CRADA Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radioactivity in the Environment written by Laurie Wirt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
