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A New Concept for Time-Resolved Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy
Post, November 22, 2013 • In developing the dual etalon frequency comb (DEFCOM) spectrometer, CRF researchers Haifeng Huang and David Chandler are refining a new concept for time-resolved Fourier-transform (FT) spectroscopy based on the interference between two transient frequency combs. By opening the door to many potential uses—including time-resolved, high-resolution, broad-band spectroscopy with a microsecond...
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Ahren Jasper and Nils Hansen lead combustion panel at AAAS
Post, March 7, 2013 • On Saturday, Feb. 16, CRF researchers Ahren Jasper and Nils Hansen organized a panel, Predictive Model of the Internal Combustion Engine, at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. The panel brought together world leaders from new and ongoing multi-institutional programs designed to address the challenges...
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Assessing the economic potential of advanced biofuels
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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California Council on Science and Technology visits CRF
Post, August 9, 2013 • On July 15, seven members of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) visited the Combustion Research Facility. Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling and Deputy Director of Chemical Sciences Dawn Manley gave the visitors an overview of the CRF. Blake Simmons, Senior Manager of Biofuels and BioMaterials Science...
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Capturing the Moment of Hydrogen Ignition in the Turbulent Combustion Lab
Post, September 6, 2013 • Hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric vehicles could be coming to a showroom near you in just a few years. Automotive manufacturers are perfecting their options, and with a plan to open 68 public hydrogen fueling stations by 2015, the State of California leads the nation in hydrogen vehicle infrastructure deployment. A...
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Chemical Kinetic Rate Coefficient Estimation Given Partial Information
Post, May 13, 2013 • Habib Najm, Khachik Sargsyan, and Bert Debusschere of the CRF, working with Cosmin Safta of Sandia’s Computer Sciences and Information Systems center and Robert Berry, formerly at the CRF and presently at The Climate Corporation in San Francisco, California, have demonstrated the use of a data free inference (DFI) approach...

Concentrating on Sunshine to Advance the Hydrogen Economy
Post, July 24, 2013 • Ivan Ermanoski works on a room-temperature prototype of the packed particle bed reactor for solar-thermochemical hydrogen production. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Can solar energy be harnessed to address climate change and other impacts of the world’s dependence on carbon-based fuels? A Sandia team that includes principal investigator Tony McDaniel in...
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Craig Taatjes To Be Awarded Polanyi Medal for Pioneering Work in Combustion Chemistry
Post, November 27, 2013 • Sandia combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi Medal at the 23rd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena, which will be held on July 20–25, 2014, in...

CRF Article Chosen by The Journal of Chemical Physics to Commemorate 80th Anniversary
Post, October 18, 2013 • A 2012 article by CRF researchers David Chandler and the late Kevin Strecker, “Dual-etalon frequency-comb cavity ringdown spectrometer” was chosen by The Journal of Chemical Physics as one of 80 articles to highlight the 80 years of outstanding work published in the journal. Recently retired CRF researcher Steve Binkley is...
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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...
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CRF Paper Among Most Cited Journal of Physical Chemistry Articles
Post, September 6, 2013 • An article by Oliver Welz, Judit Zádor, John D. Savee, Leonid Sheps, David L. Osborn, and Craig A. Taatjes, “Low-temperature combustion chemistry of n-butanol: Principal oxidation pathways of hydroxybutyl radicals,” was among the top 20 most-cited articles for the Journal of Physical Chemistry A for the month of July. In...
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CRF Research Demonstrates Wide Appeal
Post, August 9, 2013 • Adding to the numerous citings of CRF papers in the past, two new examples confirm the value that others place on our work. While visiting the website of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, a biennial publication at the forefront of combustion science, Sandia Senior Scientist John Dec of the...
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CRF researchers attend 2013 SAE World Congress
Post, June 8, 2013 • Various CRF staff members attended the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2013 International Congress from April 16–18 in Detroit, Michigan. Each year this event draws over 10,000 people from 45 countries, representing original equipment manufacturers, suppliers, academia, research and development, and government. Chuck Mueller and Jacqueline O’Connor each received an...

CRF Researchers Make Direct Kinetic Measurements of Criegee Intermediate
Post, May 29, 2013 • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester, Bristol University, University of Southampton, and Hong Kong Polytechnic have successfully measured reaction rates of a second Criegee intermediate, CH3CHOO, and proven that the reactivity of the atmospheric chemical depends strongly on which way the molecule is twisted....
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CRF Researchers Make Significant Contributions to Laser Diagnostics in Combustion Conference
Post, September 6, 2013 • Tom Settersten, manager of the Combustion Chemistry and Diagnostics Department, chaired the biennial Laser Diagnostics in Combustion Gordon Research Conference, held August 11–16 in New Hampshire. Former CRF manager, Mark Linne (now director of the Combustion Engine Research Center at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden), who was vice-Chair for this meeting,...
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CRF researchers participate in 2013 DOE Annual Merit Review
Post, June 8, 2013 • Various staff members from the CRF and the Hydrogen Program participated in the 2013 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review (AMR) and Peer Evaluation Meeting, May 14–16 in Washington, DC. The AMR is sponsored by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and the...

CRF Researchers Share Their Career Paths at Math & Science Awards
Post, July 11, 2013 • At the 22nd annual Sandia/California Math & Science Awards last month, CRF researchers Patricia Gharagozloo, a mechanical engineer, and Karla Morris, a software engineer, shared their career journeys with the award recipients, 22 young women from area high schools. While their paths were quite different, they started with something in...
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CRF Summer Undergraduate Internship Opportunities – Apply by January 10, 2014
Post, December 1, 2013 • The Combustion Research Facility is seeking undergraduate and community college interns for 10-week appointments in summer 2014. Interns will be paired with a CRF scientist to conduct experimental, computational, or modeling research related to CRF programs. Applicants must be U.S. citizens majoring in math, physical science, or engineering, with a...
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CRF Summer Visiting Faculty Opportunities – Apply by January 10, 2014
Post, December 1, 2013 • The Combustion Research Facility is seeking visiting faculty researchers for 10-week appointments in summer 2014. The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) seeks faculty members and their students at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community in order to expand the workforce vital to DOE mission areas. Faculty members develop a proposal...
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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...
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CRF Visitors, April-May 2013
Post, June 8, 2013 • Berta Matas Güell, SINTEF Host: Chris Shaddix During a month-long stay at the CRF, Berta employed Sandia’s unique reactor facilities to study the high-temperature entrained flow gasification rates of coal and biomass particles. Findings will be used to model gasifier performance, an important step toward an approach for producing liquid...

CRF Visitors, July and August 2013
Post, November 21, 2013 • Russell Fitzgerald 6/3/13-7/26/13 Host: Isaac Ekoto General Electric (GE) research scientist and former Sandian Russell Fitzgerald came to the CRF for two months to work with Isaac Ekoto to evaluate the suitability of employing an in situ carbon monoxide (CO) detection technique in an optically accessible gas turbine test rig...
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CRF Visitors, September 2013
Post, November 21, 2013 • Niels Leermakers 5/1/2013-9/13/2013 Host: Mark Musculus Niels Leermakers, a Ph.D. candidate from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, visited the CRF for four months to collaborate with Mark Musculus on a DOE project to better understand details of the temporal and spatial evolution of soot and soot precursors under...
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Criegee intermediate research featured in Science Roundup
Post, May 14, 2013 • Craig Taatjes and Davis Osborn’s paper, “Direct Measurements of Conformer-Dependent Reactivity of the Criegee Intermediate CH3CHOO,” was one of 12 papers featured in the April Science Roundup, a monthly review of highlights for AAAS members. The paper was published in the April 12 edition of Science magazine. In the paper,...
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