Highlights EAG OUTREACH UPDATE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS VISIT BLADE INSPECTION TECH MICROGRIDS WASTE-TO-ENERGY TECH SURGEENERGY ACADEMIC GROUP QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER SUMMER / FALL 2018 USS Spruance (DDG 111) does a high speed run during Super Trials. In April, the Energy Academic Group at NPS sent a student thesis team to Naval Base San Diego to gather data relating to recent transits by the USS Spruance and USS Stockdale (DDG 106). The data will help form the basis of a more detailed analysis of OTTER’s expected fuel savings and the factors that impact transit fuel consumption. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy. fuel use against OTTER’s predictions. This April, the Energy Academic OTTER Sea Trials Although operational and maintenance Group at NPS sent a student thesis considerations on the WASP didn’t team to Naval Base San Diego to gather Promising, But allow for full testing of OTTER’s data in support of OTTER. The team optimized transit planning capabilities, collected data relating to recent transits Require Further the testing demonstrated OTTER’s by the USS Stockdale (DDG-106) and USS Analysis ease of use, ability to adapt to engine Spruance (DDG-111) that will help form mode constraints, and ability to create the basis of a more detailed analysis Last fall, the Energy Academic Group reasonable fuel consumption estimates. of OTTER’s expected fuel savings and conducted testing of the Optimized The test also highlighted several the factors that impact transit fuel Transit Tool & Easy Reference (OTTER) important considerations for future consumption. The work of this thesis on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) as it transited trials. Depending on ship type, mission team will help determine exactly what from San Diego to Sasebo, Japan. requirements, transit requirements, or data is needed to determine fuel savings OTTER is an Excel-based tool designed engine constraints, the potential savings attributable to OTTER and what data is to help surface ships reduce their from OTTER may be overshadowed by readily accessible from ships’ logs. transit fuel consumption by suggesting variations in electric generator fuel use efcient combinations of transit or ocean conditions. In these cases, LEARN MORE speeds and engine confgurations. more data will be needed to get an ! Email Brandon Naylor During this testing, OTTER was used accurate assessment of OTTER’s actual at [email protected] by the Wasp’s Navigator to compare fuel savings. or call 831.656.1986 the ships actual transit practices and SURGE SUMMER / FALL 2018 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER, ENERGY ACADEMIC GROUP, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL Principal's Thoughts Dan Nussbaum, Principal, Energy Academic Group From the beginning, we built EAG on three pillars— Curriculum, Research, and Outreach. While a previous Assistant Secretary of the Navy called these pillars “Education, Technology, and Relationships”, this article focuses on the third pillar, Outreach (or Relationships), including EAG’s vision, Curriculum Research Outreach current activities, and future plans. Our vision is to create an energy community of interest (COI) to assist Pillars of the Energy Academic Group. NPS in building professional and operational alliances supporting not only the Navy but the Department Examples of oferings are: • Military Operations Research Society of Defense in pursuit of the national (MORS) MORS. Held last month at security objectives of the United States. • NATO Energy Security Centre of NPS where I provided a keynote EAG pursues this vision through the Excellence: Energy, an Operational presentation and Strategic Level focus activities described below: All of these professional organizations • Tbilisi, Georgia: Energy Security provide platforms for EAG to explain Current Activities • Lithuania: Energy Efciency in to the larger defense and security NPS’s Defense Energy Seminar Military Operations world who NPS is, describe the unique aspects NPS brings to graduate-level series provides students and • NATO School, Oberammergau: defense and security education, and faculty a broad palette of seminars, Energy Security Awareness addressing both energy technology discuss the work of the EAG. These issues and policy perspectives. • Kuwait: Critical Energy Infrastructure venues also permit us opportunities Protection/Resilience to advance our vision of creating Speakers from the NPS faculty as communities of interests. well as government, commercial frms, Conferences, where I introduce I look forward to hearing your ideas and not-for-proft activities provide various audiences to NPS and the on developing and sustaining the expertise across a range of energy work of colleagues in both EAG and Energy COI. topics. All this is masterfully curated by the wider NPS community. Kevin Maher (CDR, USN, ret.). Examples include: You can view archived seminars and • Innovative Energy Solutions for see planned speakers at http://www. CONTACT nps.edu/web/eag/seminars Military Applications. This conference DAN NUSSBAUM enables information exchange on Email [email protected] Also, EAG provides the unique best practices and technologies or call 831-656-2387 opportunity for non-resident US for advancing energy efciency in students, International Allies, and the military, and helps accelerate Partner Nations to learn about the transfer of innovative energy Energy topics. technologies from the civilian to the military sector. I will lead a discussion Since NPS faculty and their students panel on multinational NATO regularly participate in these oferings, achievements in enhancing energy these courses support their research efciency in military operations objectives and thesis projects. UPDATE REPORT EAG/CID Team visits the U.S. Virgin Islands Dan Nussbaum, Principal, Energy Academic Group Left: Hurricane Maria home damage (6 months post storm). Fredriksted, St. Croix. Center: Marine Capt John Dommert standing in front of a destroyed 0.5MW solar farm, St. Croix. Right: WAPA Contractors replacing an underground transformer; power outage to St. Croix, parts of downtown U.S. Virgin Islands Christiansted lasted greater than 24 hours in this case. Carribbean Sea During this past quarter, NPS’s Center to manage coordination, training, and current infrastructure system resilience/ for Infrastructure Defense (CID) and convening activities with local utilities eforts, and identifes opportunities for the Energy Academic Group (EAG), and government representatives, and future research contributions to the USVI along with two NPS students traveled manage the modeling and analysis on the recovery. From a Naval perspective, this to St. Croix, Virgin Islands to meet with identifcation, analysis, and development project ofers NPS a unique opportunity local utility companies and government of a proposed energy infrastructure to assess island infrastructure resiliency/ representatives to preliminarily assess recovery and priorities in the US Virgin capacity building lessons learned for the recovery and resiliency efort of the Islands. The frst of these eforts includes potential application in the Navy/Marine USVI infrastructure system. Specifcally, a technical preliminary assessment Corps Expeditionary Advanced Base the team met with local and government report on the interdependent Operations Concept. representatives from FEMA, DoE, infrastructure resilience in the USVI. NREL, the Virgin Islands Water and This technical report not only serves LEARN MORE Power Authority (VIWAPA), Wastewater as the technical foundation for LCDR ! Email Alan Howard at Treatment, Public Works, Limetree Bay Brendan Bunn’s Operations Research [email protected] or call Terminals, the VI Energy Ofce, and the master’s thesis, but also provides FEMA 831.656.3855 St. Croix Foundation. CID and EAG’s an operational overview of the USVI support to FEMA includes broad eforts infrastructure system, awareness of Defense Energy Seminar Series NPS's academic programs in Defense Energy are supplemented by a seminar series LEARN MORE which provides a forum for leading voices within the feld, practitioners, and other " Please see the Calendar of Defense Energy infuencers. These professionals give presentations, engage in Events or visit nps.edu/ web/eag/seminars brown bag discussions, and facilitate informal gatherings that encourage Defense for upcoming and archived Energy faculty and students to discourse over current issues in Defense Energy, seminars. supplementing classroom teaching with practical, professional experiences. The Defense Energy Speakers' Seminars are a permanent part of NPS's Defense Energy program, and a key to its real-world relevance. Mega-Trash to Mega-Watts: Estimating the Feasibility of Waste-to-Energy Technologies for Navy Installations By Gary Parker How does a decision maker evaluate “Energy is a crucial consideration in whether investing in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) technology makes economic sense our planning for both future operational for a given project? Thanks to a recent NPS systems systems and sustainable shore installations engineering (SE) graduate student, Navy-wide.” the Commander, Navy Installation — ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ, NPS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Command (CNIC)’s Energy Return on Investment (eROI) decision support tool the new module must perform to the for integration into the eROI tool, Haag’s may soon have an additional module module’s requirements. research opens a door for further that produces estimates for three WTE When it came time to develop a proof- inquiry by future SE students interested technologies (incinerators, plasma of-concept module for demonstration
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