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

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2013

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, and Robert W Dibble."Numerical Analysis of Biogas Composition Effects on Combustion Parameters and Emissions in Biogas Fueled HCCI Engines for Power Generation."ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 135.7 (2013).

2012

Saxena, Samveg, Stephen H Schneider, Salvador Aceves, and Robert W Dibble."Wet ethanol in HCCI engines with exhaust heat recovery to improve the energy balance of ethanol fuels."Applied Energy 98 (2012) 448-457. DOI

Rapp, Vi H, Anthony DeFilippo, Samveg Saxena, Jyh-Yuan Chen, Robert W Dibble, Atsushi Nishiyama, Ahsa Moon, and Yuji Ikeda."Extending Lean Operating Limit and Reducing Emissions of Methane Spark-Ignited Engines Using a Microwave-Assisted Spark Plug." Journal of Combustion 2012 (2012). DOI

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Francisco J Cadavid, Samveg Saxena, Robert W Dibble, Salvador Aceves, and Daniel Flowers."A Sequential Chemical Kinetics-CFD-Chemical Kinetics Methodology to Predict HCCI Combustion and Main Emissions."SAE 2012 World Congress & Exhibition, April 24, 2012 (2012). DOI

2011

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Characterization of HCCI ringing behavior using ion sensors." (2011).

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, Robert W Dibble, and Martin Wissink."Experimental evaluation of strategies to increase the operation range of a biogas HCCI engine for power generation."Applied Energy 97 (2011) 618-629. DOI

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, Robert W Dibble, and Martin Wissink."Experimental study of biogas combustion characteristics and emissions in a HCCI engine for power generation." 1.53 (2011) 154-162.

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, and Robert W Dibble."Exploring Strategies for Reducing High Inlet Temperature Requirements and Allowing Optimal Operating Conditions in a Biogas Fueled HCCI Engine for Power Generation."ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 7.134 (2011).

DeFilippo, A, Samveg Saxena, Vi H Rapp, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Extending the lean flammability limit of gasoline using a microwave assisted sparkplug." (2011).

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of sparkplug ion sensors through addition of a potassium acetate fuel additive."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33.2 (2011) 3081-3088. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Maximizing power output in an automotive scale multi-cylinder HCCI engine."SAE World Congress (2011). DOI