Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2007

Tong, Tao, Je-Young Chang, Shankar Devasenathipathy, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Ravi S Prasher."High-Speed Visualization of Phase-Change Processes in Silicon Microchannels With Water and HFE-7100 as Working Fluids."ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and ExpositionVolume 5: Electronics and Photonics (2007). DOI

Tong, Tao, Je-Young Chang, Shankar Devasenathipathy, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Ravi S Prasher."Performances of Silicon Micro-Flow-Passage Cold Plates From Single-Phase to Two-Phase With Water and HFE-7100 as Working Fluids."ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2007) 95–110. DOI

2006

Prasher, Ravi S, John Dirner, Je-Young Chang, Alan M Myers, David Chau, Dongming He, and Suzana Prstic."Nusselt Number and Friction Factor of Staggered Arrays of Low Aspect Ratio Micro-Pin-Fins Under Cross Flow for Water as Fluid."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 9–20. DOI

Tong, Tao, Shankar Devasenathipathy, Je-Young Chang, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Ravi S Prasher."Performance of Two-Phase Microchannels at Sub-Atmospheric Pressure."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 183–192. DOI

2005

Chang, Je-Young, Ravi S Prasher, David Chau, Alan M Myers, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Dongming He."Convective Performance of Package Based Single Phase Microchannel Heat Exchanger."ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference (2005) 183–188. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, John Dirner, Je-Young Chang, Alan M Myers, David Chau, Suzana Prstic, and Dongming He."Effect of Localized Hotspot on the Thermal Performance of Two-Phase Microchannel Heat Exchanger."ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference (2005) 99–103. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, John Dirner, Je-Young Chang, Alan M Myers, David Chau, Dongming He, and Suzana Prstic."Thermal Resistance and Pressure Drop of Silicon Based Micro Pin Fin Heat Exchanger Under Cross Flow."ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference (2005) 717–725. DOI