Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 4027 Annual Report 2016 27 Energy & Environment Science and Technology INL is conducting testing and evaluation of the WiTricity wireless vehicle charging system, the Qualcomm Halo TM wireless vehicle charging system and the Nissan wireless vehicle charging system to determine the charging efficiency, power quality and electromagnetic field emissions. This testing and evaluation is in support of the development of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ draft standard J2954. The Biomass Feedstock National User Facility at INL is working with the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) to assess the viability of biofuel utilization of approximately 8,000 tons of eastern Idaho hay adulterated with unexpected residues of methyl bromide.The hay must be disposed of as it is not eligible for use as feed. Biofuel utilization may be an effective option, but insufficient data exist to assess safety, combustibility and other factors.The Biomass Feedstock National User Facility has expertise in preprocessing and densification of biomass to meet the specifications of biomass burning. Under this Strategic Partnership Project, INL will work to verify a fuel market pathway for the contaminated hay.This analysis being performed at INL is the first of its kind in the area of burning agricultural commodities affected by high levels of inorganic bromide. As part of the Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Small Business Voucher program, INL is assisting two small businesses with further development of technologies. Mithra is being assisted with new particle transport manifold-reactor assembly in a research setting using Mithra’sTemporal Analysis of Products system. INL is assisting e-Materials Recovery in taking the next steps leading to a stand-alone technology that safely recovers the precious and electronic metals from printed wiring boards without the use of toxic chemicals or high temperature processing and is economically viable. Illinois Rocstar was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, titled “Integrated Computational System for Electrochemical Device Design and Simulation, ” and is working with INL. INL is providing support in integrating/ implementing it’s Advanced Electrolyte Model.The focus of this work is building computational tools that will accelerate the process of simulating battery performance, enabling the design of cheaper, more powerful, safer advanced batteries with decreased time to market. CFTechnologies, Inc. has been awarded a Small Business TechnologyTransfer (STTR) grant.The proposal, titled “Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Brown Grease from Wastewater Treatment Plants to Biodiesel using Supercritical Fluids, ” was co-authored by INL staff and is based upon INL technology and intellectual property. INL staff has teamed with CFTechnologies staff to examine a heterogeneous catalytic conversion technology useful for synthesizing ASTM D6751 quality biodiesel from fats, oils and greases. National & Homeland Security INL is a leader in and internationally recognized for industrial control systems (ICS) security at the confluence of cybersecurity, wireless, embedded protocols, and threat assessments.The critical infrastructure protection facilities utilize specialized environments spread across the INL landscape. INL also maintains strong ties with control systems vendors and infrastructure owners/operators. In FY16, INL established new partnerships for researching ICS security, while maintaining and expanding existing partnerships. In FY16, a public power company teamed with INL to explore new and innovative methods for securing its industrial control systems from targeted cyber attacks.The project includes an in-depth engineering evaluation of the company’s ICS operational environment for the purpose of identifying high-consequence attack scenarios.This consequence-based risk analysis of the ICS environment will be leveraged by INL to propose new engineering/design options, operational procedures, and active defense methods/alerts/safeguards. INL may use the results of the project to validate a Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE) framework and identify key lessons learned that can be applied to the broader energy sector.