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David Chandler Named IAMS Advisory Board Member
Post, October 18, 2013 • Sandia chemist David Chandler has been named to the 7th Advisory Board of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS). Dr. Chandler’s term will run from September 2013 through August 2016. Advisory Board members review research programs at IAMS and recommend scientific directions. IAMS is one of 24 research...

David Osborn Receives Lockheed Martin NOVA Award
Post, September 7, 2013 • David Osborn Chemist David Osborn was recently awarded a Lockheed Martin NOVA Award. This award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Lockheed Martin’s mission and business objectives in the four categories of exceptional service, leadership, teamwork, and technical excellence. David received a Technical Excellence Award for his groundbreaking...

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.

DOE Office of Basic Energy Science program managers and reviewers visit the CRF
Post, June 8, 2013 • Program managers Dr. Michael Casassa and Dr. Wade Sisk of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) and eight peer-reviewers visited the CRF from March 20–22. Over their three-day visit, Dr. Casassa, Dr. Sisk, and the reviewers met with managers and staff funded by BES, listened to staff presentations...

ExaCT holds all-hands meeting at CRF
Post, June 8, 2013 • On May 14, the Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (ExaCT) held its biannual all-hands meeting at the CRF. The meeting was attended by computer scientists, applied mathematicians and computational combustion scientists from ExaCT, and high-performance computing (HPC) vendors and computer scientists associated with DOE’s X-Stack program (aimed...

Four CRF Papers Presented at the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety
Post, November 7, 2013 • CRF researchers presented four papers at the 5th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety, held September 9–11, 2013, in Brussels, Belgium. ICHS 2013 focused on progress in safety of hydrogen technologies and infrastructure, as crucial/essential means to enable the transition to a zero carbon energy system. The conference was hosted by...
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Fuel Cell Mobile Light Illuminates $2 Billion Highway Construction Project
Post, July 11, 2013 • Lenny Klebanoff (far left) and members of the CT DOT with the Mobile Fuel Cell Light. The Fuel Cell Mobile Light has been field-tested in a number of interesting locations—highway shoulder work for Caltrans, airfield maintenance operations at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), at Hollywood awards ceremonies like the Academy...
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Hope Michelsen Named to Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Post, February 27, 2013 • Hope Michelsen The Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame has named Sandia combustion and atmospheric scientist Hope Michelsen (8353) as the 2013 Outstanding Woman in Science. She is the first Sandian to receive this award. Hope is being honored for her combustion and atmospheric science research—specifically, her contributions to developing...

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...
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Joe Pratt Presented Market Transformation Work at Two Conferences
Post, November 7, 2013 • Joe Pratt presented work for DOE’s Market Transformation group at two international conferences.  At the Society of Automotive Engineers Aerospace Alternative Fuels and Associated Environmental Impacts Symposium in Brussels, Belgium on June 13, 2013, Joe gave a DOE-prepared talk on the work the Market Transformation group is doing in the...
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June Visitors
Post, August 9, 2013 • Jesse Quinlan 5/20/13–6/14/138351 Visiting StudentHosted by Joe Oefelein Jesse Quinlan, a graduate student at the University of Virginia (UV) who is also affiliated with NASA Langley Research Center, collaborated with researchers at the CRF over several weeks on a project to help develop combustion models applicable to the supersonic combustion...
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Lyle Pickett Named SAE Fellow
Post, October 21, 2013 • Lyle Pickett has been named a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Established in 1975, the Fellow grade honors and recognizes important engineering, scientific, and leadership achievements to enhance the status of SAE’s contributions to the profession and to society. Lyle was selected based on his pioneering research...

Magnus Sjöberg receives SAE Oral Presentation Award
Post, December 20, 2013 • CRF researcher Magnus Sjöberg has received an Excellence in Oral Presentation Award from SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers. This award, which was established to recognize outstanding speakers at SAE technical sessions, places Magnus in the top 5% of SAE oral presenters for 2013. Based on evaluations submitted...
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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...
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Negative Valve Overlap: A Key to Controlling Lean, Gasoline Auto-Ignition?
Post, October 21, 2013 • By Richard Steeper The drive for cleaner, more efficient engines has pushed research toward low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) strategies that offer hope of achieving mandates for ultra-low engine-out emissions. Such strategies typically exploit auto-ignition to avoid the high-temperature flames associated with spark ignition. However, this approach makes LTGC control a...
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New hydrogen book illustrates Sandia expertise in H2 storage
Post, March 7, 2013 • Though Hydrogen Storage Technology – Materials and Applications is perhaps a title only a scientist or engineer could love, Lennie Klebanoff is confident that the book’s content will help give readers a greater sense of urgency about the need to get hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the road, and other...

New Methods Allow Prediction of Pressure Dependence in Chemical Reactions
Post, December 20, 2013 • Seeking to free researchers from a nearly exclusive dependence on empirical models, CRF researcher Ahren Jasper and Argonne National Laboratory researchers James A. Miller and Stephen J. Klippenstein have developed a set of theoretical methods for predicting the rates of collisional energy transfer that govern pressure dependence.1 Enabled by both...
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New Take on an Old Laser Diagnostic Opens Up Additional Avenues for Combustion Research
Post, May 29, 2013 • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS)—one of the most powerful gas-phase spectroscopic techniques—has been widely used and refined over the last 40 years in many fields of chemical physics, from chemical sensing and standoff detection of biowarfare agents to measuring molecular dynamics. CARS has also been applied to numerous combustion research...
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Novel Spectroscopic Method Reveals Intermediates over a Broad Spectrum
Post, December 2, 2013 • CRF researcher Leonid Sheps has developed a new spectroscopic method, Time-Resolved Broadband Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (TR-BB-CEAS). The new technique is capable of following the time evolution of transient intermediates as they are produced and consumed in a gas-phase chemical reaction by monitoring their absorption of near-UV to visible light (300–700...
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Optimizing Engines for Alternative Fuels
Post, August 9, 2013 • by Magnus Sjöberg Given their potential to address issues related to limited petroleum reserves and accelerating global climate change, renewable fuels and improved engine efficiency are receiving significant research attention. Specifically, researchers are exploring the challenges of developing engines that can operate efficiently on alternative fuels, while offering high performance...
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Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah visits CRF
Post, August 9, 2013 • On July 15, Congressman Chaka Fattah (PA-2nd) visited the Combustion Research Facility. He met with Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling and Deputy Director of Chemical Sciences Dawn Manley to learn about research programs at the CRF and visited Mark Musculus’ optical engine lab. Congressman Fattah serves on the Appropriations...
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Sandia and Cool Earth Solar Announce Partnership
Post, March 7, 2013 • Under the bright California sun on Wednesday, Feb. 20, Sandia and Cool Earth Solar celebrated the announcement of a 5-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the first public-private partnership to take full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC). “Today’s announcement perfectly embodies how the open campus will enable...

Sandia Hosts Visitors from Japanese Automotive Industry
Post, December 23, 2013 • On Nov. 7 and 8, Sandia hosted visiting fuel cell electric vehicle engineers from the Japanese automotive industry. On the first day of the visit, engineers from the Nissan Technical Center North America learned more about Sandia’s work in fueling research and the Center for Infrastructure Research and Integration (CIRI)....
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