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Adams and Bastress Awards Given to CRF Staff Members

Post, November 29, 2012 • 2012 Adams & Bastress Award Winners The CRF is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Adams and Bastress awards. The O.W. Adams Award, named after Bill Adams, DOE’s original CRF sponsor, was established in 1986 and is given each year to Sandians who have made exemplary research contributions...

April 2012

Post, May 3, 2012 • On April 10-12, CRF manager Damian Rouson and senior technical staff member Karla Morris taught an intensive workshop on object-oriented programming (OOP) in Fortran 2003 at the University of California at Berkeley. OOP aims to increase a program's maintainability in part by reducing cross-module data dependencies and to increase a...

Cellular Membrane Bending by Protein-Protein Crowding

Post, December 18, 2012 • Cellular membranes are made up of lipid bilayers that can be highly curved, an essential feature critical for processes such as endocytosis, organelle synthesis, cell division, and intracellular transport. Current understanding suggests that specialized proteins are responsible for membrane curvature through two mechanisms (Figure 1). The first is membrane scaffolding...
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Coal Use and Carbon Capture Technologies

Post, July 31, 2012 • Coal is one of the most abundant fossil fuels and thus has a long history of use, from heating to steel production to power generation. Though coal use is both reliable and inexpensive, it is also a major producer of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Research into carbon capture and storage...
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CRF begins research for Clean Vehicles Consortium

Post, May 15, 2012 • In the fall of 2010, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the selection of three research consortia between the U.S. and China to advance clean energy in the areas of building energy efficiency, clean vehicles, and advanced coal technology. Sandia and the CRF are pleased to begin research in...

CRF Co-Sponsored the Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions

Post, September 4, 2012 • The CRF was proud to sponsor the attendance of ten students at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions. The awardees presented posters on their work and were available for a question-and-answer session about their research. From left to right, the awardees are pictured with both the...
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CRF Director Speaks on Panel At National Journal Live Policy Summit

Post, July 24, 2012 • Director of the Transportation Energy Center, Bob Carling, spoke on a panel discussion at the Policy Summit on the “Perils and Prospects of an ‘All of the Above’ Approach to the Energy Future,” hosted by National Journal Live. The panel also featured Mary Hutzler from the Institute for Energy Research,...

CRF Hosts Visitors from General Motors

Post, November 6, 2012 • CRF Hosts Visitors from General Motors Transportation Director Bob Carling, Senior Manager Dawn Manley, and Manager Dennis Siebers hosted two visitors from General Motors this summer. CRF researchers toured Mike Harpster, the director of the Propulsion Research Lab, and Paul Najt, group manager of the SI Engine Systems, through the...
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CRF manager Daniel Dedrick receives DOE award for outstanding technical contribution

Post, July 31, 2012 • Each year, at the Department of Energy's Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting, the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program presents "Program Awards" for contributions to the overall efforts of the Program, and "Sub-Program Awards" to recognize achievements in specific areas. CRF manager Daniel Dedrick received a Sub-Program Award for outstanding...

CRF manager hosts workshop on hydrogen safety

Post, June 11, 2012 • CRF manager Daniel Dedrick hosted an H2CAN Workshop on Hydrogen Safety in R&D from April 11-12. H2CAN, also known as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Hydrogen Canada Strategic Network, consists of international researchers interested in Hydrogen Production and Purification, Storage, and Infrastructure and Safety. Thirteen...
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CRF Research Presented at Workshop on Advanced Computing for Energy Innovation

Post, September 4, 2012 • Work conducted by CRF researcher Jackie Chen and her collaborators Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ray Grout (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), and John Levesque (Cray Supercomputing Center for Excellence) was presented at the DOE-sponsored Workshop on the Grand Challenges of Advanced Computing for Energy Innovation, held from July 31-August...

CRF Researcher on Organizing Committee for Turbulent (Non)Premixed Flames Workshop

Post, October 3, 2012 • CRF researcher Rob Barlow served on the organizing committee for the Turbulent (Non)Premixed Flames (TNF) workshop, held in Darmstadt, Germany from July 26-28, 2012. The TNF workshop, which was hosted by the Technical University of Darmstadt, was attended by several CRF researchers and focused on experimental and computation work in...

CRF Researchers answer Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge

Post, April 10, 2012 • Last month, Alan Alda posed a challenge to scientists and researchers in Science magazine: Can you explain what a flame is in a way that 11-year-olds will understand?  Entries could take any shape--prose, poetry, videos, cartoons and more! CRF researchers Guilhem Lacaze, Judit Zador, and Jens Prager got together to...

CRF Researchers answer Alan Alda's Flame Challenge

Post, April 10, 2012 • Last month, Alan Alda posed a challenge to scientists and researchers in Science magazine: Can you explain what a flame is in a way that 11-year-olds will understand?  Entries could take any shape--prose, poetry, videos, cartoons and more! CRF researchers Guilhem Lacaze, Judit Zador, and Jens Prager got together to...

CRF Researchers Awarded the David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement

Post, November 29, 2012 • Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award Winners The CRF is pleased to announce that researchers Craig Taatjes and David Osborn, along with collaborators at the University of Manchester and the University of Bristol, were awarded the 2012 David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at LBNL’s Advanced Light Source (ALS). The...
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CRF Researchers honored at SAE World Congress

Post, May 22, 2012 • Three Sandians from the Engine Combustion group were honored at the 2012 SAE World Congress Awards Ceremony on April 24 in Detroit. Lyle Pickett was presented with the 2011 SAE John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines, Ben Peterson received the Russell S. Springer Award, and Chuck Mueller...

CRF Researchers Lead Discussion on Laser Induced Incandescence

Post, July 3, 2012 • CRF researcher Hope Michelsen led discussions on Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) modeling at the 5th International Workshop on LII, held in France. Ray Bambha, also from Sandia, presented a talk entitled “Effects of particle coatings on LII” with Michelsen and CRF researchers Mark Dansson and Paul Schrader. CRF researcher Scott...

CRF researchers visit NREL

Post, June 20, 2012 • Last month, Transportation Energy Center Director, Bob Carling, CRF manager Daniel Dedrick and staff researcher Aaron Harris met with Hydrogen Program Leadership at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The group discussed alignment of the Codes and Standards programs at both NREL and Sandia with respect to hydrogen safety.

CRF staff participates in hydrogen and safety meeting

Post, June 20, 2012 • CRF manager Daniel Dedrick and researcher Isaac Ekoto participated in a recent meeting of the International Energy Agency. Hosted by Air Liquide in Paris, the meeting focused on Task 31 of the Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, which focuses on Hydrogen Safety. Researchers at the CRF are leading the subtask focused on...

CRF Visitor Program News Winter-Spring 2012

Post, May 1, 2012 • CRF Visitors Darwin Arifin Darwin Arifin is a return graduate student visitor from the University of Colorado. He will be participating in experiments related to the production of hydrogen and carbon monoxide via thermochemical redox cycles of ceria and doped ceria. Such thermochemical cycles are a means to produce precursors...
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Dawn Manley supports Senatorial visit to China

Post, May 10, 2012 • Dawn Manley with Senator Bingaman (photo courtesy of Jonathan Black) Senior Manager Dawn Manley accompanied Senior New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman on his recent trip to Hong Kong and China to discuss their clean-energy landscape. The U.S. delegation sought to learn more about the policies and incentives that Hong Kong...
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DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences program managers visit the CRF

Post, June 26, 2012 • Program managers Dr. Wade Sisk and Dr. Mark Pederson of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) made a recent visit to the CRF. Over their two-day visit, Dr. Sisk and Dr. Pederson met informally with managers of BES-funded projects. The BES program supports fundamental research to understand, predict,...

ExaCT offers “proxy apps”

Post, May 22, 2012 • This month, we debuted the new website for The Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (ExaCT). The ExaCT group is actively developing a number of “proxy apps” that represent key aspects of structured-grid adaptive PDE-based combustion simulations. A subset of these proxy apps are available to the public....
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