Post, April 9, 2013 • Dean Dibble (8237) prepares samples of switchgrass for analysis. (photo by Randy Wong) Biofuels hold great promise for the future of transportation energy, but the day that biofuel completely replaces gasoline at the pump is still a long way off. How far off is, at best, an educated guess, with...
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CRF hosts Advisory Committee meeting
Post, April 8, 2013 • In January, Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling hosted a CRF Advisory Committee meeting. The two-day event featured research presentations on the Center for Infrastructure Research and Innovation, the Spray Combustion Consortium, measurement and modeling approaches to support climate mitigation, and diagnostics; visits to the Char Combustion lab, Advanced Imaging...
CRF Visitor Balint Sztaray receives DOE Visiting Faculty Program Award
Post, April 8, 2013 • CRF visitor Balint Sztaray, a professor of Chemistry at University of the Pacific, received a 2013 Visiting Faculty Program (VPW) Award from DOE. The award will fund 10 weeks of research at the CRF for Balint and one of his undergraduate students. They will be working on combining Balint’s method...
Dennis Siebers hosts Advanced Engine Combustion program review
Post, April 8, 2013 • Engine Combustion manager Dennis Siebers hosted an Advanced Engine Combustion program review meeting from Feb. 5-7. Participants included researchers from the national labs, academia, and industry. Jackie O’Connor, Paul Miles, John Dec, Lyle Pickett, Cosmin Dumitrescu, Julien Manin, Magnus Sjoberg, Dipankar Sahoo, and Scott Skeen gave presentations on their research.
How low-temperature combustion enables cleaner, more efficient engines
Post, April 9, 2013 • If you ask a long-haul trucker or a European car driver what pump they pull up to at the fuel station, the answer will most likely be “diesel.” These drivers choose diesel-fueled vehicles because diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines. When burning tens of thousands of gallons per...
Maritime ports may be the next deployment for hydrogen fuel cells
Post, April 9, 2013 • Hydrogen fuel cells may be heading out to sea in the not-too-distant future. Hydrogen fuel cells are being used in a variety of ways to provide efficient, pollution-free power—mobile lighting systems, forklifts, emergency backup systems, and light duty trucks, to name a few. Providing auxiliary power to ships in berth...