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PNNL IntelliVent system reduces risk of explosions in outdoor battery cabinets

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Requirements in NFPA 855 and the International Fire Code now necessitate explosion mitigation measures for cabinets. The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously. IntelliVent is the first system of its kind designed to address these requirement.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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in 1997, he moved east to manage an aerodynamics and hypersonics research program at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research , in Arlington, Va. After a successful fourth launch of the Falcon 1, SpaceX went on to develop its Falcon 9 launch capability, which is now sending astronauts to the International Space Station.

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US Navy-led study of ultracapacitors finds Skeleton outperforms Ioxus, Maxwell, JM Energy for transient load applications

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Significant reduction of the internal impedance has resulted in an increased power capability that makes UCs well suited for use in these applications. Heinzel (2019) “Characterization of Ultracapacitors for Transient Load Applications” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science doi: 10.1109/TPS.2019.2904562. —Nybeck et al.

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