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Algae scrubbing for waterway remediation and biofuel production

News Article, December 3, 2024 • Photo caption: Principal Investigator Ryan Davis and team have advanced an algae flow-way system that reclaims major nutrients, metals, and organic and inorganic carbon from surface waters. Sandia researchers are advancing algae flow-way systems that screen out pollutants from the environment. Designed to simultaneously remediate water and grow algae for...

A researcher in a lab coat sits beside a flow way containing algae

Power plants get watered down

News Article, January 6, 2020 • By Melissae Fellet Electricity production is one of the industries that uses the most water in the country each day. Researchers at Sandia are helping the largest power plant in the United States identify the most efficient and cost-effective strategies to reduce water use. They have developed a first-of-its-kind comprehensive...

Sandia researcher Bobby Middleton, right, has developed a more efficient cooling system for power plants. Together with Patrick Brady, left, the researchers are also developing a first-of-its kind systems dynamics analysis to identify water-saving technologies for cooling at power plants.

Sandia helps provide water data for secure energy supply

News Article, December 19, 2018 • In recognition of Thanksgiving, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) highlighted how U.S. families use energy in the kitchen. Not surprisingly, the EIA found that electricity powered nearly two-thirds of all cooking. But when those 75 million households microwave holiday leftovers, do they think about how much water it takes to...

Women@Energy features Sandia’s Stephanie Kuzio

News Article, March 22, 2021 • This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Energy Water Systems Integration department Manager, Stephanie Kuzio. In her role, Stephanie manages a team of early, mid and late career technical staff with expertise in environmental engineering, civil engineering, hydrology, and data, modeling...