Award Number: DE-EE0009095
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Location(s): MA
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Western New England University for the research and development of the design, fabrication, and laboratory testing of silica-based glass encapsulated phase change materials for thermal energy storage. The three areas of focus for Budget Period 1 (BP1) would be the development of High Throughput Experimental Methods (HTEM) with data management solutions, Flow Mold Casting (FMC) of silica-based glass coated microwire feedstocks, and the development of a machine learning (ML) algorithm. Budget Period 2 (BP2) would focus on the implementation of the ML accelerated process development method for FMC of phase change materials. This review is for both BP1 and BP2.