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 by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2010

Lai, W. Y., Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Pressure-Drop Viscosity Measurements for-Al2O3 Nanoparticles in Water and PG-Water Mixtures (Nanofluids)."J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. (2010). DOI

2009

Lai, W. Y., S. Vinod, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Convective Heat Transfer for Water-Based Alumina Nanofluids in a Single 1.02-mm Tube."Journal of Heat Transfer 131.11 (2009) 112401. DOI

2008

Lai, W. Y., Patrick E. Phelan, S. Vinod, and Ravi S. Prasher."Convective heat transfer for water-based alumina nanofluids in a single 1.02-mm tube."2008 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (I-THERM)2008 11th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (2008). DOI

2006

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, S. Nara, P. Vijayan, T. Tang, W. Y. Lai, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and J. Wang."Characterization of the Temperature Oscillation Technique to Measure the Thermal Conductivity of Fluids."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 49.17-18 (2006) 2950-2956.

2005

Nara, S., Prajesh Bhattacharya, P. Vijayan, W. Y. Lai, W. Rosenthal, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and Jinlin Wang."Experimental Determination of the Effect of Varying Base Fluid and Temperature on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005 (2005). DOI

Vijayan, P., Prajesh Bhattacharya, S. Nara, W. Y. Lai, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and J. Wang."Effect of Particle Material on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."Heat Transfer Conference (2005).