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Spray Combustion Consortium formed to improve engine design
Post, January 13, 2017 • by Michael Padilla Sandia National Laboratories has formed an industry-funded Spray Combustion Consortium to better understand fuel injection by developing modeling tools. Control of fuel sprays is key to the development of clean, affordable fuel-efficient engines. Intended for industry, software vendors and national laboratories, the consortium provides a direct path...

Student Interns Return to the CRF
Post, August 30, 2011 • This summer’s interns include (left to right) Romina Rodiguez, Nathan Greco, Daniel Nilson, Cassandra Janakos, Alexander Lloyd, Calvin Ball, Mari Sanchez, and Matthew Morabito (not pictured). The Summer Technical Student Internship Program at Sandia National Laboratories provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in science, math, engineering, and other...

Students and Professors Spend the Summer at Sandia under DOE’s WDTS Program
Post, August 20, 2014 • This past summer, the CRF was the research home to 11 students and 2 professors who participated in the DOE Office of Science's Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) Program. By allowing students and professors to conduct research internships at national laboratories, this program is helping to develop the...
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Supercomputing In the Media: National Geographic
Post, June 26, 2012 • Kudos to Sandian Dr. Jackie Chen, whose work on exascale computing systems was recently featured in the National Geographic’s ‘Daily News’ section. Entitled “Supercomputing Power Could Pave the Way to Energy-Efficient Engines,” the news article focused on how the world’s most powerful supercomputers provide critical knowledge to spur the design...

The CRF Hosts the Livermore Rotary Club
Post, August 14, 2012 • Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling recently hosted a visit of nearly 100 members of the Livermore Rotary Club. Dr. Carling presented an overview of the Livermore Valley Open Campus and of the work done at Sandia/CA. CRF researchers then conducted tours of the Computational Combustion and Chemistry Lab, the...

The CRF Participates in 2012 DOE Annual Merit Review
Post, July 3, 2012 • Various staff members from the CRF participated in the 2012 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR). The AMR is sponsored by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and the Vehicle Technologies Program. CRF researchers...

Thermochemical integration key to improving the efficiency of bio-ethanol production
Post, May 16, 2011 • A recently concluded CRF study as revealed the important role of combustion in the efficient operation of cellulosic ethanol plants for producing  biofuels. Unlike ‘first-generation’ ethanol derived from the fermentation of sugar or starch sources (such as corn), future production of ethanol in the United States is expected (and indeed...
Figure 2. Schematic of the modeled, prototypical lignocellulosic biochemical ethanol plant utilizing separate enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation steps.|Figure 1. Typical composition of a softwood tree, in this case hybrid poplar.|Figure 3. Energy inputs and outputs (on the basis of lower heating value, left pie chart) and exergy inputs and outputs (right pie chart) for the conventional technology biochemical process design case.

Turbulent Jet Flame Database Generated for Sooty Fuels
Post, August 30, 2011 • Figure 1. Design drawings of burner (a and b), showing the central fuel tube surrounded by a perforated plate that supports small pilot flames for stabilizing high-speed flames. Photograph (c) of pilot flames and the base of an ethylene jet flame. The CRF has a long and distinguished history of...
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Uncertainty Quantification in Chemical Systems with Reaction Mechanisms Employing Rate Rules
Post, January 16, 2014 • A team of researchers—Jens Prager, formerly at the CRF and presently at the engineering simulation software firm CD-adapco; Habib Najm and Khachik Sargsyan of the CRF; Cosmin Safta of Sandia’s Computer Sciences and Information Systems center; and William Pitz of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—have studied the impact of uncertainty of...

Understanding hazardous combustion byproducts reduces factors impacting climate change
Post, August 30, 2016 • Sandia researchers focus on soot, furans, oxygenated hydrocarbons By Michael Padilla  Researchers at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility are developing the understanding necessary to build cleaner combustion technologies that will in turn reduce climate impact.  Their work focuses on understanding the oxidation chemistry of organic carbon species critical to many processes...

UTRC and CRF researchers discuss turbine engines
Post, June 11, 2012 • On April 23, a group of combustion researchers from the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) visited the CRF. Led by manager Dr. Catalin Fotache, the UTRC researchers met with senior managers Art Pontau and Andy McIlroy, manager Daniel Dedrick, and others to speak about experimental diagnostics, modeling and simulation with...

VFP Professor Balint Sztaray Continues CRF Collaboration
Post, July 24, 2014 • Balint Sztaray, a professor of Chemistry at University of the Pacific Over the past two summers and a sabbatical semester in 2013, University of the Pacific (UOP) chemistry professor Balint Sztaray and his research group have been working with the CRF’s David Osborn on a project to improve the selectivity...
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Widespread Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Goal of H2FIRST Project
Post, May 5, 2014 • As hydrogen fuel cell vehicles continue to roll out in increasing numbers, the infrastructure for fueling them must expand as well. To this end, a new project launched by the Energy Department and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work in support of...
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Working Toward Success: A Look at the Engine Combustion Network
Post, October 12, 2012 • American industrialist Henry Ford once said, “If everyone is moving forward together, then success will take care of itself.” Ford was no doubt speaking on the basis of his business expertise but some 150 years later, his ideas of success are still in motion at the Combustion Research Facility (CRF)....
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