Energy Systems Division Research Articles

Greetings From the Chair of the JSME Power Energy Systems Division

Abstract I would like to extend New Year's greetings to the readers, reviewers and editors of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science (NERS) as Chair of the Power and Energy Systems Division (PESD) of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Greetings from the Chair of the JSME Power Energy Systems Division

Abstract This message is the New Year's greetings from JSME.

Special Issue on Energy Sustainability 2021 Conference

Abstract The 15th ASME Energy Sustainability Conference was jointly organized by the Solar Energy Division (SED) and the Advanced Energy Systems Division (AESD). The conference was focused on identifying innovative technologies, research and design advances, and solutions toward a path of renewable and sustainable energy, including utility-level systems integration. The Solar Energy Division organized tracks on “Concentrating Solar Power”, “Solar Chemistry”, “Photovoltaics”, “Solar Desalination and Industrial Process Heat”, “Wind Energy”, and co-organized tracks on “Sustainable Buildings and Cities”, and “Energy Storage” with the AESD. The Solar Energy Division organizers of the conference were Nesrin Ozalp, the General Chair, and Justin Lapp, the Technical Program Chair. This Special Issue was arranged by the Solar Energy Division as a compilation of selected high quality papers. The topics of the papers span a wide range of topics in solar energy.

Final activity report of the “Workshop of Advanced Studies for Steam Flow Measurement”

The "Workshop of Advancement of Steam Flow Measurement" started its activities in April 2017 within the Power and Energy Systems Division of the JSME and finished as planned in March 2022. The industrial sector has a steam demand of 1.12 million TJ/year, which is the second largest energy source after electricity, and steam accounts for about 80% of the heat energy use in the industrial sector and is widely used in large quantities in the main production processes: sterilization, drying, cleaning and distillation. Steam is thus a major heat source in the industrial sector and there is a strong need for flow measurement from the perspective of energy conservation. However, flow measurement of steam is very difficult due to its high temperature and susceptibility to wetness. In addition, there are very few measurement standards. Therefore, the study group has made efforts to clarify the condition of application and accuracy of each measurement method with regard to the flow measurement method of steam. The number of committee members is 30 (chief: Shuichi Umezawa (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.), vice-chair: Ryo Morita (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry), secretary: Tatsuya Funaki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)), who come from universities, companies, research institutes and others. The frequency of its activities is as follows: it holds study groups once or twice a year, summarizes its results and publishes a report. The predecessor of this study group, the "Workshop of Wet Steam Flow Measurement" (April 2012 - March 2017), also published a report summarizing its overall activities. On the basis of these results, an academic standards development committee has been set up this year and is preparing guidelines for the correction of wet steam flow rate indications from the perspective of thermal energy utilization.

Towards prediction of machine failures: overview and first attempt on specific automotive industry application

The automotive sector is facing new challenges and increased competition nowadays. Customer satisfaction depends on products and parts quality, as well as possible customizations. To reach these objectives, productivity is key, meaning machines availability needs to be maxed and not impacted by unplanned breakdowns, which cost a lot of money and time, and possibly quality issues on parts produced during the deteriorating phase of the machine. Industry 4.0 will play an essential role, as it comes with new digital tools to improve productivity through real-time interactions from the digital world to the physical world. It is especially true with the maintenance policies, which are changing from corrective to planned ones from predictions of machine failures. We use the terms Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) or Predictive Maintenance (PdM) in these cases; they are based on data analysis to propose a health assessment of critical components, to predict future issues. The Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) framework proposes methodologies to deal with such problems. In the recent years, many researches focused on these topics; however, few of them deal with the full scope of implementing practically this strategy in the industry, particularly in the automotive sector. Thus, this paper aims at reviewing current approaches, and presenting the strategy employed as well as the first use case investigated in the Clean Energy Systems division of Plastic Omnium.

Argonne Discovery Yields Self-Healing Diamond-Like Carbon

Large-scale reactive molecular dynamics simulations carried out on the US Department of Energy's IBM Blue Gene/Q Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, along with experiments conducted by researchers in Argonne's Energy Systems Division, enabled the design of a self-healing anti-wear coating that drastically reduces friction and related degradation in engines and moving machinery. Now, the computational work advanced for this purpose is being used to identify the friction-fighting potential of other catalysts.

Approaching High-Performance Li-Sulfur Batteries By Surface Modification Using Atomic Layer Deposition

Approaching High-Performance Li-Sulfur Batteries by Surface Modification Using Atomic Layer Deposition Xiangbo Meng†#, Yuzi Liu‡, Joseph A. Libera†, Kevin R. Zavadil§ and Jeffrey W. Elam†* † Energy Systems Division, ‡ Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, USA 60439 § Materials Science and Engineering, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA 87185 # Presenting author: xmeng@anl.gov; * Corresponding author: jelam@anl.govElectrical energy storage (EES) is critical for the widescale implementation of renewable clean energies. With the commercialization of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in portable electronics, new battery technologies are being intensively investigated in order to provide higher energy density for other applications such as electrical vehicles. Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are very intriguing, given their high theoretical specific energy density of 2567 Wh/kg. However, Li-S batteries suffer from a number of major hurdles in practice, such as the insulating S and Li2S, soluble polysufides (Li2Sx, x≥4), and lithium dendrite growth. Although a huge amount of research effort has been invested to date, a lack of viable technologies exists to create high performance for practical applications. In our recent studies, both S cathodes and lithium metal anodes were modified via atomic layer deposition (ALD). Our research disclosed that uniform and conformal ALD coatings are very beneficial for Li-S batteries to approach high performance. Specifically, effects of ALD coating were exhibited in: (1) depressing the shuttle effect of polysulfides and (2) inhibiting lithium dendrite growth. As a result, the ALD-modified Li-S batteries showed improved Coulombic efficiency, much longer cycling lifetime, and enhanced safety. In our studies, different ALD coatings were investigated, including Al2O3 and LixAlyS. This work was supported as part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Electron microscopy was performed at Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory.

Amorphous Metal Fluoride Passivation Coatings Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition on LiCoO2 for Li-Ion Batteries

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunicationNEXTAmorphous Metal Fluoride Passivation Coatings Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition on LiCoO2 for Li-Ion BatteriesJoong Sun Park†, Anil U. Mane‡, Jeffrey W. Elam‡, and Jason R. Croy*†View Author Information† †Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division and ‡Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States*E-mail: [email protected]Cite this: Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 6, 1917–1920Publication Date (Web):March 5, 2015Publication History Received21 November 2014Revised3 March 2015Published online11 March 2015Published inissue 24 March 2015https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00603Copyright © 2015 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views3169Altmetric-Citations91LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit Read OnlinePDF (1 MB) Get e-AlertsSupporting Info (1)»Supporting Information Supporting Information SUBJECTS:Atomic layer deposition,Coating materials,Deposition,Electrodes,Materials Get e-Alerts

Acknowledging the Contributions of Dr. Chris Bagnall, Advisory Editor

Dr. Bagnall was a true driving force for the creation of this journal. His assistance has been invaluable in ways too numerous to mention, including helping to design the journal cover, shaping the journal’s aims and scope, mapping out departments, developing the Editorial Board, and identifying potential authors and reviewers. We have now completed two volumes of MMA, and while we look forward to the continued benefit of Dr. Bagnall’s support and guidance, we would like to at this time publicly acknowledge his many contributions, to both this journal and to the greater technical community of metallographers, microscopists, and metallurgists. A Fellow of ASM International, Dr. Bagnall is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Henry Clifton Sorby Award, has twice received the President’s Award from the International Metallographic Society, and is also a recipient of the Jacquet–Lucas Award for Excellence in Metallography. Since 1999, Dr. Bagnall has served as the president and director of MCS Associates, a consulting firm in Latrobe, Pa. Previously, he had a 22-year career with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, working within the Advanced Energy Systems Division. Prior to taking on his role with MMA, Dr. Bagnall served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Characterization for 30 years. The editorial staff would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to Dr. Bagnall for his service to MMA; his Chris Bagnall Ryan M. Deacon

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Solar Energy Division and Advanced Energy Systems Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Erratum: “Experimental Studies on a Heat Pump Operating With R22, R407C and R407A: Comparison from an Exergy Point of View” [ASME J. Energy Res. Technol., 125, No. 2, pp. 101–112

The contributed line should have read: Contributed by the Advanced Energy Systems Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received at the AES Division February 2002; revised manuscript received October 2002. Associate Editor: S. Somasundaram.

Erratum: “Modeling and Simulation of PEM Fuel Cells With CO Poisoning” [ASME J. Energy Res. Technol., 125, No. 2, pp. 94–100

The contributed line should have read: Contributed by the Advanced Energy Systems Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received at the AES Division March 2002; revised manuscript received October 2002. Associate Editor: S. Somasundaram.

99/03956 United states department of energy large commercial absorption chiller development program: Garland, P. W. et al. AES (Am. Soc. Chem. Eng.), 1998, 38, (Proceedings of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, 1998), 271–275

To establish a proper regulation strategy on the emissions of major halocarbons including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), it is essential to assess their environmental behavior in relation to social and technological changes for their control. The production and release of CFCs and CCl4 increased rapidly to peak between the 1970s and 1980s and then decreased dramatically from the end of the 1980s in good accordance with the phase out schedules set by the Montreal Protocol. Both HCFCs (e.g., HCFC-124, HCFC-141b, and HCFC-142b) and HFCs (e.g., HFC-134a) have been introduced as CFCs alternatives between the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, these alternatives have already been or will be scheduled to be phased out because of their involvement in ozone destruction and global warming. In light of all the complexities associated with the global chemistry of CFCs and their alternatives, this paper provides an overview of their production and emission trends, their relationship with the ozone depletion phenomenon, the chemistry regulating their removal processes, and their distribution patterns with diverse temporal and spatial scales.

Feeder Automation Designs for Installing an Integrated Distribution Control System

The Athens Automation and Control Experiment is a hardware/software-oriented research and development project [1]. The basic purpose of the experiment is to automate the distribution system and to develop and test control strategies that improve the efficiency and controllability of the power system. The hardware system will be installed on the Athens Utilities Board distribution system in Athens, Tennessee. The experiments are being designed to develop and test load control, volt/var control, and distribution automation functions [2]. Since this project is sponsored by the Electric Energy Systems Division of the U. S. Department of Energy and by the Electric Power Research Institute, the transference of experimental results to the electric utility industry is a primary objective.

Handbook for the Review of Airport Environmental Impact Statements. Kenneth E. Nelson and Sarah J. LaBelle. Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. July 1975. 159p

Handbook for the Review of Airport Environmental Impact Statements. Kenneth E. Nelson and Sarah J. LaBelle. Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. July 1975. 159p

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