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DOE OSTI2012

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Weatherization Training Project Final Report

The objective of the project is to train the appropriate staff, both new and existing from various KBIC Departments in the core competencies needed to develop a comprehensive Tribal community weatherization program. The goal of the project was to build the staff capacity to enable the KBIC to establish a Tribal weatherization program that promotes energy sufficiency throughout the Tribal community. The project addresses the needs identified in the 2008 KBIC Strategic Energy Plan to build the staff capacity and increase the knowledge base within the Tribal Departments and to implement an energy efficiency program through community education and financial assistance incentives.

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DOE OSTI2012

Messiah College Biodiesel Fuel Generation Project (Final Technical Report)

Many obvious and significant concerns arise when considering the concept of small-scale biodiesel production. Does the fuel produced meet the stringent requirements set by the commercial biodiesel industry? Is the process safe? How are small-scale producers collecting and transporting waste vegetable oil? How is waste from the biodiesel production process handled by small-scale producers? These concerns and many others were the focus of the research preformed in the Messiah College Biodiesel Fuel Generation project over the last three years. This project was a unique research program in which undergraduate engineering students at Messiah College set out to research the feasibility of small-biodiesel production for application on a campus of approximately 3000 students. This Department of Energy (DOE) funded research program developed out of almost a decade of small-scale biodiesel research and development work performed by students at Messiah College. Over the course of the last three years the research team focused on four key areas related to small-scale biodiesel production: Quality Testing and Assurance, Process and Processor Research, Process and Processor Development, and Community Education. The objectives for the Messiah College Biodiesel Fuel Generation Project included the following: 1. Preparing a laboratory facility for the development and optimization of processors and processes, ASTM quality assurance, and performance testing of biodiesel fuels. 2. Developing scalable processor and process designs suitable for ASTM certifiable small-scale biodiesel production, with the goals of cost reduction and increased quality. 3. Conduct research into biodiesel process improvement and cost optimization using various biodiesel feedstocks and production ingredients.

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DOE OSTI2012

International Shock-Wave Database Project: Report of the Requirements Workshop

We report on the requirements workshop for a new project, the International Shock-Wave database (ISWdb), which was held October 31 - November 2, 2011, at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. Participants considered the idea of this database, its structure, technical requirements, content, and principles of operation. This report presents the consensus conclusions from the workshop, key discussion points, and the goals and plan for near-term and intermediate-term development of the ISWdb. The main points of consensus from the workshop were: (1) This international database is of interest and of practical use for the shock-wave and high pressure physics communities; (2) Intermediate state information and off-Hugoniot information is important and should be included in ISWdb; (3) Other relevant high pressure and auxiliary data should be included to the database, in the future; (4) Information on the ISWdb needs to be communicated, broadly, to the research community; and (5) Operating structure will consist of an Advisory Board, subject-matter expert Moderators to vet submitted data, and the database Project Team. This brief report is intended to inform the shock-wave research community and interested funding agencies about the project, as its success, ultimately, depends on both of these groups finding sufficient value in the database to use it, contribute to it, and support it.

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DOE OSTI2012

Design of an ATR Loop 2A Test Train: Phase 2 of the EPRI/INL Pilot Project for Irradiation of Alloys X-750 and XM-19

The Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility (ATR NSUF) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) formed an agreement to test representative alloys used as reactor structural materials as a pilot program toward establishing guidelines for future ATR NSUF research programs. The pilot project is a three phase project consisting of baseline material characterization (Phase I), experiment design and irradiation thermal and neutronics analyses (Phase II), and post irradiation examination (Phase III). The intent of this Phase II portion of the pilot project is to estimate thermal and neutronic characteristics of the planned experiments and to provide design details of the experiment assemblies themselves. The materials chosen for this research are the nickel based super alloy X-750, and nitrogen strengthened austenitic stainless steel XM-19.

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DOE OSTI2012

Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Project Technologies: Demand Response

This document is one of a series of reports estimating the benefits of deploying technologies similar to those implemented on the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) projects. Four technical reports cover the various types of technologies deployed in the SGIG projects, distribution automation, demand response, energy storage, and renewables integration. A fifth report in the series examines the benefits of deploying these technologies on a national level. This technical report examines the impacts of a limited number of demand response technologies and implementations deployed in the SGIG projects.

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DOE OSTI2012

Safety Design Strategy for the Remote Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Project

In accordance with the requirements of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 413.3A, “Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets,” safety must be integrated into the design process for new or major modifications to DOE Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities. The intended purpose of this requirement involves the handling of hazardous materials, both radiological and chemical, in a way that provides adequate protection to the public, workers, and the environment. Requirements provided in DOE Order 413.3A and DOE Order 420.1B, “Facility Safety,” and the expectations of DOE-STD-1189-2008, “Integration of Safety into the Design Process,” provide for identification of hazards early in the project and use of an integrated team approach to design safety into the facility. This safety design strategy provides the basic safety-in-design principles and concepts that will be used for the Remote-Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Project.

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DOE OSTI2011

Light Water Reactor Sustainability Constellation Pilot Project FY11 Summary Report

Summary report for Fiscal Year 2011 activities associated with the Constellation Pilot Project. The project is a joint effor between Constellation Nuclear Energy Group (CENG), EPRI, and the DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program. The project utilizes two CENG reactor stations: R.E. Ginna and Nine Point Unit 1. Included in the report are activities associate with reactor internals and concrete containments.

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DOE OSTI2012

Application of the BISON Fuel Performance Code to the FUMEX-III Coordinated Research Project

INL recently participated in FUMEX-III, an International Atomic Energy Agency sponsored fuel modeling Coordinated Research Project. A main purpose of FUMEX-III is to compare code predictions to reliable experimental data. During the same time period, the INL initiated development of a new multidimensional (2D and 3D) multiphysics nuclear fuel performance code called BISON. Interactions with international fuel modeling researchers via FUMEX-III played a significant and important role in the BISON evolution, particularly influencing the selection of material and behavioral models which are now included in the code. BISON's ability to model integral fuel rod behavior did not mature until 2011, thus the only FUMEX-III case considered was the Riso3-GE7 experiment, which includes measurements of rod outer diameter following pellet clad mechanical interaction (PCMI) resulting from a power ramp late in fuel life. BISON comparisons to the Riso3-GE7 final rod diameter measurements are quite reasonable. The INL is very interested in participation in the next Fuel Modeling Coordinated Research Project and would like to see the project initiated as soon as possible.

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DOE OSTI2011

Thermal Energy Corporation Combined Heat and Power Project

To meet the planned heating and cooling load growth at the Texas Medical Center (TMC), Thermal Energy Corporation (TECO) implemented Phase 1 of a Master Plan to install an additional 32,000 tons of chilled water capacity, a 75,000 ton-hour (8.8 million gallon) Thermal Energy Storage (TES) tank, and a 48 MW Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system. The Department of Energy selected TMC for a $10 million grant award as part of the Financial Assistance Funding Opportunity Announcement, U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology, Recovery Act: Deployment of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Systems, District Energy Systems, Waste Energy Recovery Systems, and Efficiency Industrial Equipment Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000044 to support the installation of a new 48 MW CHP system at the TMC located just outside downtown Houston. As the largest medical center in the world, TMC is home to many of the nation's best hospitals, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, and health care providers. TMC provides care to approximately six million patients each year, and medical instruction to over 71,000 students. A medical center the size of TMC has enormous electricity and thermal energy demands to help it carry out its mission. Reliable, high-quality steam and chilled water are of utmost importance to the operations of its many facilities. For example, advanced medical equipment, laboratories, laundry facilities, space heating and cooling all rely on the generation of heat and power. As result of this project TECO provides this mission critical heating and cooling to TMC utilizing a system that is both energy-efficient and reliable since it provides the capability to run on power independent of the already strained regional electric grid. This allows the medical center to focus on its primary mission providing top quality medical care and instruction without worrying about excessive energy costs or the loss of heating and cooling due to the risk of power outages. TECO's operation is the largest Chilled Water District Energy System in the United States. The company used DOE's funding to help install a new high efficiency CHP system consisting of a Combustion Turbine and a Heat Recovery Steam Generator. This CHP installation was just part of a larger project undertaken by TECO to ensure that it can continue to meet TMC's growing needs. The complete efficiency overhaul that TECO undertook supported more than 1,000 direct and indirect jobs in manufacturing, engineering, and construction, with approximately 400 of those being jobs directly associated with construction of the combined heat and power plant. This showcase industrial scale CHP project, serving a critical component of the nation's healthcare infrastructure, directly and immediately supported the energy efficiency and job creation goals established by ARRA and DOE. It also provided an unsurpassed model of a district energy CHP application that can be replicated within other energy intensive applications in the industrial, institutional and commercial sectors.

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DOE OSTI2012

Safety Design Strategy for the Remote Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Project

In accordance with the requirements of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 413.3A, “Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets,” safety must be integrated into the design process for new or major modifications to DOE Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 nuclear facilities. The intended purpose of this requirement involves the handling of hazardous materials, both radiological and chemical, in a way that provides adequate protection to the public, workers, and the environment. Requirements provided in DOE Order 413.3A and DOE Order 420.1B, “Facility Safety,” and the expectations of DOE-STD-1189-2008, “Integration of Safety into the Design Process,” provide for identification of hazards early in the project and use of an integrated team approach to design safety into the facility. This safety design strategy provides the basic safety-in-design principles and concepts that will be used for the Remote-Handled Low-Level Waste Disposal Project.

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DOE OSTI2012

Whole-House Design and Commissioning in the Project Home Again Hot-Humid New Construction Community

BSC has been working with Project Home Again since 2008 and has consulted on the design of around 100 affordable, energy efficient new construction homes for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This report details the effort on the final two phases of the project: Phases V and VI which resulted in a total of 25 homes constructed in 2011. The goal of this project was to develop and implement an energy efficiency package that will achieve at least 20% whole house source energy savings improvement over the B10 Benchmark.

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DOE OSTI2012

Simulation of Wave Interactions with Magnetohydrodynamics (SWIM) SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) Project

The Center for Simulation of Wave Interactions with Magnetohydrodynamics (SWIM) was begun in 2005 with as a partnership between the DOE Office of Fusion Energy (FES) and the Office of Advanced Supercomputing Research (ASCR) to serve as a prototype for a comprehensive Fusion Simulation Project (FSP). The purpose was to begin the process of multi-physics, multi-scale coupling, at a reduced scope from a full FSP, while addressing problems of programmatic importance, and to develop approaches to large-scale code integration as required for the full FSP. The scientific objectives of SWIM were to improve our understanding of interactions that both RF wave and particle sources have on extended-MHD phenomena, to improve our capability for predicting and optimizing the performance of burning plasmas, to develop an integrated computational system for treating multi-physics phenomena with the required flexibility and extensibility to serve as a prototype for the Fusion Simulation Project, to address mathematics issues related to the multi-scale, coupled physics of RF waves and extended MHD, and to optimize the integrated system on high performance computers. The SWIM project ended in 2012 and the FSP, for which SWIM was to serve as a prototype, was not begun.

Batchelor, Donald↗
DOE OSTI2012

Annotated Bibliography for the MATADOR Project

The MATADOR project is focused on developing methods to infer the operational mode of facilities that have the potential to be used in weapons development programs. Our central hypothesis is that by persistent, non-intrusive monitoring of such facilities, differences between various use scenarios can be reliably discovered. The impact of success in this area is that new tools and techniques for monitoring and treaty verification would make it easier to reliably discover and document weapons development activities. This document captures the literature that will serve as a basis to approach this task. The relevant literature is divided into topical areas that relate to the various aspects of expected MATADOR project development. We have found that very little work that is directly applicable for our purposes has been published, which has motivated the development of novel methods under the project. Therefore, the manuscripts referenced in this document were selected based on their potential use as foundational blocks for the methods we anticipate developing, or so that we can understand the limitations of existing methods.

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DOE OSTI2013

Yearly Report for the Period Jan-Dec 2012: IC PROJECT W12c_earthuq - “High-Performance Computing for Uncertainty Quantification of 3D Earth Models”

This proposal was written to be a new project leveraging on computational achievements of the two IC11 proposals “3D Geophysical Modeling Validation” and “Time-Reversal Imaging of tremor sources”. W12c_earthuq involves additional codes/tools other than SPECFEM3D for data processing and planned a strong effort to move toward modeling at much larger scales than the aforementioned projects. W12c_earthuq goal was to use extensive HPC resources at LANL to assess the uncertainty of high resolution 3D geophysical models. Validation of these models as planned in W11_geophys is the first step in a full assessment of uncertainty. So, the scientific and programmatic impacts of this project are the same as W11_geophys. The main effort related to w12c_earthuq is the preparation to transition to large runs with a resolution down to 2s. We already report the work done in the report for w11_geophys. Such resolution requires meshes with 10 billions elements with a size of about 5km and a few thousands of compute nodes. First tests on mustang have revealed that the I/O part of the code need to be reviewed because it opens too many files in its current version.

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DOE OSTI2012

Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Distributed Generation

This document is one of a series of reports estimating the benefits of deploying technologies similar to those implemented on the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) projects. Four technical reports cover the various types of technologies deployed in the SGIG projects, distribution automation, demand response, energy storage, and renewables integration. A fifth report in the series examines the benefits of deploying these technologies on a national level. This technical report examines the impacts of addition of renewable resources-solar and wind in the distribution system as deployed in the SGIG projects.

Singh, Ruchi↗
DOE OSTI2013

Beyond Guaranteed Savings: Additional Cost Savings Associated With ESPC Projects

Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) projects are generally believed to deliver only small cost savings to the government, given that most of the guaranteed savings are paid to the Energy Service Company (ESCO). The main conclusion of this report is that significant cost savings do accrue to the government. These savings come about because (1) the ESCO does not guarantee all of the savings it estimates; (2) the useful life of the equipment extends beyond the performance period of the ESPC; (3) National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST)/Energy Information Administration projections for energy price escalation have been very conservative with respect to actual price increases; and (4) the baseline case that forms the basis of the guaranteed savings calculation assumes that the baseline equipment would maintain the same efficiency and require the same level of maintenance for a period of time equal to the performance period of the ESPC. More realistic assumptions indicate that for a representative project, the federal government receives nearly twice the level of cost savings guaranteed by the ESCO. Figure 1 presents a breakdown of the sources of these savings.

Shonder, John A.↗
DOE OSTI2012

Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Thermal Energy Storage

This document is one of a series of reports estimating the benefits of deploying technologies similar to those implemented on the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) projects. Four technical reports cover the various types of technologies deployed in the SGIG projects, distribution automation, demand response, energy storage, and renewables integration. A fifth report in the series examines the benefits of deploying these technologies on a national level. This technical report examines the impacts of energy storage technologies deployed in the SGIG projects.

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DOE OSTI2013

Integrated Biorefinery Project: Cooperative Research and Development (Final Report)

The Amyris-NREL CRADA is a sub-project of Amyris's DOE-funded pilot-scale Integrated Biorefinery (IBR). The primary product of the Amyris IBR is Amyris Renewable Diesel. Secondary products will include lubricants, polymers and other petro-chemical substitutes. Amyris and its project partners will execute on a rapid project to integrate and leverage their collective expertise to enable the conversion of high-impact biomass feedstocks to these advanced, infrastructure-compatible products. The scope of the Amyris-NREL CRADA includes the laboratory development and pilot scale-up of bagasse pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification conditions by NREL for subsequent conversion of lignocellulosic sugar streams to Amyris Diesel and chemical products by Amyris. The CRADA scope also includes a techno-economic analysis of the overall production process of Amyris products from high-impact biomass feedstocks.

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