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Submission for annual FLC magazine publication, Technology for Today, featuring technologies transferred by federal labs. Subject: PNNL transfer of Propylene Glycol from Renewable Sources catalytic process to Archer Daniels Midland Company.
Scientists from PNNL are testing a fish transportation system developed by Whooshh Innovations. The Whooshh system uses a flexible tube that works a bit like a vacuum, guiding fish over hydroelectric dams or other structures. Compared to methods used today, this system could save money while granting fish quicker, safer passage through dams and hatcheries.
The power grid is changing and evolving. One aspect of this change is the growing use of smart meters and other devices, which are producing large volumes of useful data. However, in many cases, the data can’t be translated quickly into actionable guidance to improve grid performance. There's a need for innovative tools. The GridOPTICS(TM) Software System, or GOSS, developed through PNNL's Future Power Grid Initiative, is open source and became publicly available in spring 2014. The value of this middleware is that it easily integrates grid applications with sources of data and facilitates communication between them. Such a capability provides a foundation for developing a range of applications to improve grid management.
Heat pump water heaters (HPWH) are a promising technology for substantially reducing water heating-related energy use in the residential sector. However, concerns have been raised regarding the impact of HPWHs on space conditioning energy when installed in conditioned space, primarily in northern climates. For example, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA’s) Northern Climate HPWH Specification, which describes the characteristics a HPWH must have to be incentivized in cold climates in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), requires exhaust ducting for their Tier II-specified products and both supply and exhaust ducting for the Tier III-specified product (NEEA 2013). However, these concerns and installation recommendations are based on modeling and comparative field data are not available to verify modeled performance. This study examines the overall performance and operation of two GE GeoSpring HPWHs in conditioned space in the matched pair of PNNL Lab Homes with no ducting, exhaust ducting, and full ducting (supply and exhaust) and explores the interactions between the HPWH and the home’s heating/cooling system. The data collected in this field evaluation suggest that previous modeling may not completely characterize the complex interactions of HPWHs, HVAC systems, and ducting. This report discusses the impact on space conditioning and water heater energy use of configuring an HPWH with exhaust only ducting or full ducting, as compared to an unducted HPWH. Additional cost analysis is necessary to assess the cost effectiveness of ducting and to make formal recommendations regarding appropriate installation of HPWHs in more varied scenarios.
Shared Perspectives, one of the technologies within the PNNL-developed GridOPTICS capability suite, enables neighboring organizations, such as different electric utilities, to more effectively partner to solve outages and other grid problems. Shared Perspectives provides a means for organizations to safely stream information from different organizational service areas; the technology then combines and aligns this information into a common, global view, enhancing global situation awareness that can reduce the time it takes to talk through a problem and identify solutions. The technology potentially offers applications in other areas, such as disaster response; collaboration in the monitoring/assessment of real-time events (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes); as well as military uses.
By looking at a problem at a nanoscale level, PNNL researchers are developing an economic way to extract valuable rare earth elements from geothermal fluids. This novel approach may help meet the high demand for rare earth elements that are used in many clean energy technologies.
Conference presentation from the 16th Annual SOFC Workshop that highlights the integration and validation of the PNNL SOFC model into NETL SOFC system models. The integration strengthens NETL's analyses by incorporating state-of-the-art industry performance data that can be used to inform real and achievable future targets for the cost and performance of SOFC technology.
At PNNL, researchers are working to learn more about the effects of hydropower on the environment. The Aquatic Research Laboratory provides researchers with the tools they need to answer research questions that are difficult to resolve in the field. Work done here is used to better understand the impacts of hydropower on fish populations and is used by researchers, policymakers, and power developers to maintain environmentally safe hydropower deployment.
Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Continuous Validation with Memote for CarbStor Community Member Paenibacillus These repositories contain the continuous validation environment for an organism-specific genome-scale metabolic model (GEM) using Memote. Memote is a software tool that provides a suite of tests to ensure the quality and consistency of metabolic models. By integrating Memote into a continuous integration (CI) workflow, we can automatically validate updates to the GEM, ensuring that model modifications improve or maintain the model's integrity.
This codebase was designed to tackle the problem of how to directly utilize experimental omics measurements with a genome scale metabolic model of the organism of the study. Most models only loosely utilize known experimental quantities to constrain model simulation.
Consistent Reproduction of Phenotype
Code for implementing BMCA for Synechococcus elongatus
An ensemble machine learning method to improve spectral similarity scores for GC-MS data
The software was developed to solve the problem of continuous validation for genome-scale model of S. elongatus. The origin of the work was due to the difficulty of curating genome-scale metabolic models, and memote was invented to solve this problem.
This repository contains the code necessary to process any new data for the Superfund Research Program Analytics Portal.
Lipidomics Integrated Multi-Experiment Analysis tool
Mining multi-omics relationship networks from literature and databases