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DOE OSTI2020

Lighting Technology Energy Solutions (LiTES) (Final Technical Report)

The Lighting Technologies Energy Solutions (LiTES) Program Final Technical Report is a collaborative effort between NextEnergy, Consumers Energy, DTE Energy (DTE) and the Detroit Joint Apprentice Training Center (DJATC) to evaluate customer and contractor experiences deploying advanced/networked lighting controls systems (ALC/NLC). The LiTES Program, funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), sought to reduce energy use in small and medium commercial buildings (SMCB) by accelerating the adoption of ALC/NLC through contractor training and technology deployment. Leveraging recommendations already outlined by the Design Lights Consortium Commercial Advanced Lighting Controls (DLC CALC) project, NextEnergy led an effort to train contractors, evaluate the experience of ALC/NLC demonstration projects, identify opportunities to reduce market barriers, and accelerate the increased adoption of ALC/NLC technologies within SMCB. The LiTES Program defined SMCB as commercial buildings under 100,000 square feet. The LiTES Program efforts also included evaluating current ALC/NLC utility incentives, piloting ALC/NLC incentives specific to SMCB, and identifying opportunities to better align utility incentives with current ALC/NLC technology to support accelerating the adoption of ALC/NLC in SMCB. This report shares the survey results and M&V data findings, including energy savings, market barriers, experience of installations, impact of incentives/financing programs and provides recommendations for the increased deployment of ALC/NLC systems in small and medium commercial buildings. Utility survey results, incentive alternatives and recommendations, including a cost benefit analysis outlining energy and economic impacts of the provided ALC/NLC incentives on SMCB projects are also provided.

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATI↗
DOE OSTI2024

Directed Flow and the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Ultrarelativistic Collisions with CMS at the LHC (Final Technical Report for DOE Grant # DE-SC0021080)

This Final Technical Report covers the years of activity for the Grant DE-SC0021080. It reflects the efforts of Alice Mignerey, the PI, Timothy Koeth, the co-PI, graduate students Eric Adams and Samuel Lascio, and undergraduates Alyssa Marinelli and Max Bernard. Results from three separate aspects of the project are presented: 1) understanding the radiation damage of the positive and negative sides of the Spectator Reaction Plane detector (SRPD) for data from the 2018 PbPb run at the CERN LHC. 2) Results of the directed flow in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{SNN}$ = 5.02 TeV. 3) Activation studies of the sectors of the positive side of the SRPD and radiation damage studies on fused quartz using the Maryland 4-MeV electron accelerator. The most significant result is that the reaction plane derived directed flow for both participant and spectator reaction planes is many times larger than that obtained by ALICE.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2024

Directed Flow and the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Ultrarelativistic Collisions with CMS at the LHC (Final Technical Report for DOE Grant # DE-SC0021080)

This Final Technical Report covers the years of activity for the Grant DE-SC0021080. It reflects the efforts of Alice Mignerey, the PI, Timothy Koeth, the co-PI, graduate students Eric Adams and Samuel Lascio, and undergraduates Alyssa Marinelli and Max Bernard. Results from three separate aspects of the project are presented: 1) understanding the radiation damage of the positive and negative sides of the Spectator Reaction Plane Detector (SRPD) for data from the 2018 PbPb run at the CERN LHC. 2) Results of the directed flow in PbPb collisions at √sN N = 5.02 TeV. 3) Activation studies of the sectors of the positive side of the SRPD and radiation damage studies on fused quartz using the Maryland 4-MeV electron accelerator. The most significant result is that the reaction plane derived directed flow for both participant and spectator reaction planes is many times larger than that obtained by ALICE.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2026

Final Technical Report for GROWTH-MSI at Sonoma University

This final technical report describes the goals, activities, outcomes, and broader impacts of the GROWTH-MSI program, supported through the DOE RENEW Initiative in High Energy Physics. The program established a 1.5-year traineeship for undergraduate students from six Northern California Minority Serving Institutions, connected students with DOE laboratory research mentors, provided particle physics coursework and professional development, and advanced HEP research infrastructure at CSU Stanislaus and Sonoma State University.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗
DOE OSTI2022

Lehigh University Industrial Assessment Center (Final Technical Report for the Period 2016 to 2021)

This is the final technical report summarizing the activities Industrial Assessment Center at Lehigh University sponsored by the Department of Energy for the period September 1, 2016 till September 30, 2021. During this period, the Industrial Assessment Center at Lehigh University was successful in training numerous energy engineers of the future, and helped many manufacturing plants in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. The center and its activities helped save a great deal of energy, related fuel costs and along the way mitigated tons of CO2 emissions. The report covers many of the numerical details related to the center activities. The Industrial Center at Lehigh University is one of the most successful ones and this is made evident by the statistics included as part of this report and best center award bestowed upon the center.

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATI↗
DOE OSTI2023

Final Technical Report Wireless Microsensors System for Monitoring Deep Subsurface Operations

This final technical report describes the main findings of the project Wireless Microsensors System for Monitoring Deep Subsurface Operations (FE0031850). The project was part of the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory FOA 1998 program to develop new sensor systems for direct observation of parameters associated with CO2 injection and to provide data collection without being disruptive to operations. The overall DOE program was aimed at developing and validating innovative transformational sensor systems, amenable for integration with autonomous intelligent monitoring systems, that are capable of being deployed within the casing annulus and do not have casing perforation or wires/cables in the annulus for installation, power supply, or data transmission needs. Project accomplishments included 1) design and fabrication of a wireless downhole sensor system to monitor parameters for CO2 storage, 2) field testing of the sensor system in two legacy oil & gas wells, and 3) development of an analysis approach that validates the measurements and demonstrates the application of the technology to depict CO2 movement in the subsurface. The project leveraged new sensor technologies along with specialized wellbore telemetry, deployment, and analysis methods designed to address the challenges and risks related to CO2 storage in the subsurface. Results from field testing were a mixture of successes and challenges. The temperature sensor rings, installation procedures in legacy oil & gas wells, wireless powering demonstration, automated data collection, and material compatibility were successful. The wireless data transfer through cement to the wellhead via the sensor relays was not functional beyond the first relay. Consequently, work in the last year of the project included some additional testing of data transmission through different materials along with modeling and analysis of field data for CO2 monitoring applications. This work suggested there are options like polymer cements and open hole annuli that may allow point-to-point transmission along the borehole. The techno-economic analysis suggests that the sensor system is ~40% less expensive than fiber optic distributed temperature system. Modeling of CO2 storage applications suggests temperature can provide an indicator of CO2 saturation but would be best combined with pressure sensors.

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION↗
DOE OSTI2026

Final Scientific and Technical Report

Final Scientific and Technical Report for the DOE AI grant funded under title "AI for a more precise future of the top quark"

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗
DOE OSTI2020

Final Technical Report for the SciDAC Center for the Study of Plasma Microturbulence

This final technical report for the SciDAC Center for the Study of Plasma Microturbulence documents contributions from MIT to the project over the period of the award (February 15, 2011 to February 14, 2020). This project focused on the development of neoclassical and gyrokinetic simulation capabilities relevant for the description of particle, momentum and energy transport in tokamak fusion plasmas. Extensive validation against experimental results from Alcator C-Mod and DIII-D experiments was performed. Overall areas of emphasis included gyrokinetic simulations, experiments, and observation of density gradient driven Trapped Electron Mode (TEM) turbulence relevant to burning plasmas; theory and gyrokinetic simulations of the parametric variation of the nonlinear upshift of the TEM critical density gradient; identification of a new mechanism for the isotope effect due to density gradient driven TEM turbulence; new synthetic diagnostics based on full-wave simulations which enabled unprecedented agreement between gyrokinetic simulations and measured fluctuation spectra with and without strong electron heating; development of new continuum pedestal neoclassical and turbulence codes; formulation and implementation of the first gyrokinetic exact Fokker-Planck collision operator in gyrokinetic turbulence simulations; development of new spectral approaches in velocity space for highly efficient treatments of collisions; new model collision operators implemented in the discontinuous Galerkin gyrokinetic edge turbulence code GKEYLL; and a new model and spectral code to study the interaction of ion- and electron-scale turbulence, which will serve as an efficient test-bed for multi-rate and multi-scale methods. These fundamental advances contribute to the development of a validated, predictive capability for turbulent and collisional particle, momentum and energy transport in both the core and edge of magnetically confined fusion plasmas.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗
DOE OSTI2026

Final Technical Report for DE-SC0021049: Manipulating interfacial reactivity with atomically layered heterostructures

This final technical report summarizes the work accomplished in this DOE Early Career Research Program project that has established moiré superlattice materials and two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures as a highly tunable platform for controlling heterogeneous charge transfer (ET) kinetics at solid-liquid interfaces. By precisely engineering van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin 2D materials, particularly bilayer and trilayer graphene with controlled twist angles, this project demonstrated systematic control of interfacial charge transfer rates spanning three orders of magnitude. This research addresses fundamental questions about how electronic structure, charge localization, and atomic layer-dependent properties govern charge transfer at electrochemical interfaces, with broad implications for energy conversion, electrocatalysis, and next-generation electrochemical devices.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2024

Flexible Perovskite-Perovskite PV for Mobile Power Applications (Final Technical Report)

This is the final report for the referenced TCF award which ran from Oct. 2019 through Jan. 2024 in conjunction with the industry partner Swift Solar. The long duration of the program was due to several factors including the pandemic and a technical work stoppage due to changes in the scope. Additionally, Swift’s business focus shifted during the course of the program. As a result of these factors, this program underwent two distinct modifications that dramatically changed the work scope. The following report is organized into three separate sections, each of which addresses a distinct work scope. Those scope changes, what necessitated them, and any new tasks/milestones are given, briefly, at the top of each section. The work performed was research on the hybrid halide perovskites (HHP), both the absorber material itself as well as other material layers that are required in a full device stack. At the start of the period of performance, there were two distinct challenges that we sought to address: (1) a wide band gap absorber (>1.6 eV), and (2) a recombination layer for tandem devices that provided good sequestration of the individual cell absorber materials in their respective device layers. NREL had previously published, and patented, advancements in both of these areas and they were the focus of much of the work throughout the program.

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