Technology/Business Opportunity Ultrafast Energy Tender - 91436070

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Technology/Business Opportunity Ultrafast Energy Grid Protection

Deadline: 30 Nov 2023

Posting Date: 01 Nov 2023

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 91436070

Document Ref. No.: IL-13806

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Tender Details

Description
Opportunity:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its ultrafast energy grid protection device.
Background:
Powerline transients can be induced by manmade or natural events and can potential damage the energy grid, resulting in serious economic impact to the country. To mitigate the problem, conventional local crowbar protection is used for transmission lines, which protect against high voltages in the event of a surge. However, this protection method will still reflect and repropagate the transient. What is needed is a system device that can suppress the propagation of transients.
Description:
The approach is to leverage the fact that a momentary “load” equal to the power transmission line impedance, (Z0), during the transient can suppress its propagation. Z(0) is typically a fixed impedance of several hundred ohms based on the geometry of most single wire transmission lines.
So, an isolated self-powered opticondistor (OTV) system may provide an ultrafast method of terminating a fast transient real time.
System is dormant until a fast transient is detected Transient energy is converted to light Light turns on the OTV to present resistance R = Z(0)Advantages/Benefits:
The invention allows for improved switching performance over conventional thyristors.
Faster switching speed Cost-effective operation - the device stays dormant until a fast transient is detected.
Potential Applications:
Energy grid protection and resiliency Power Electronics
Development Status:
Current stage of technology development: TRL 2
LLNL has filed for patent protection on this invention.
LLNL has a huge portfolio of photoswitch-based paten...
Active Contract Opportunity Notice ID IL-13806 Related Notice Department/Ind. Agency ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Sub-tier ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Office LLNS – DOE CONTRACTOR

General Information

Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)

All Dates/Times are: (UTC-07:00) PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, LOS ANGELES, USA

Original Published Date: Oct 31, 2023 11:40 am PDT

Original Response Date: Nov 30, 2023 12:00 pm PST

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date

Original Inactive Date: Dec 15, 2023

Initiative:

Classification

Original Set Aside:

Product Service Code:

NAICS Code: 334413 - Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing
Place of Performance: Livermore, CA USA

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