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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...

August Visitor Departures

Post, November 24, 2014 • Many of the students and faculty visiting the CRF under the DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) program returned to their universities in August. To learn more about their work at the CRF, click on the links below. Samira Iqbal, 6/2/14 – 8/7/14, Host: Ethan...
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CRF Seismic Retrofit Complete

Post, September 29, 2014 • The installation of new exterior concrete/steel seismic buttress walls, which are attached to the building steel framework. They reinforce the building structure so the building acts like one “box” during an earthquake. On Friday, Sept. 12, Sandia National Laboratories completed a three-year seismic retrofit of the Combustion Research Facility’s (CRF’s)...
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CRF Visitors, January 2014

Post, March 12, 2014 • Adam Wahab 9/16/2013-1/21/2014 Host: Wayne Staats During a several-month visit, Adam Wahab assisted Wayne Staats, Jeff Koplow, Justin Vanness, and Ryan Gorman in developing a new lighting technology that uses a variant of the Sandia Cooler—a highly efficient heat exchanger for microelectronic devices—to cool the LED array. Specifically, Adam created...

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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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,...

EERE Officials Visit CRF

Post, May 21, 2014 •   Paul Miles leads David Danielson, on the far left, and the rest of the group through the small-bore diesel/light-duty diesel laboratory. On April 14, officials from the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) visited the Combustion Research Facility. The guests included David Danielson, EERE Assistant Secretary;...
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February 2012

Post, April 25, 2012 • Senior manager of the Livermore Valley Open Campus, Andy McIlroy, presented a poster at the Industry-National Laboratory Workshop on Materials for Energy held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from January 30-February 1. The poster, entitled “Clean and Efficient Combustion for Energy Security,” was featured in the session on Energy: grid, carbon...

February CRF Visitor Departures

Post, April 17, 2014 • Xiaoying Han Xiaoying Han 2/3/2014-2/14/2014 Host: Habib Najm As part of an ongoing collaboration with Habib Najm, Professor Xiaoying Han of Auburn University (Alabama) returned to the CRF to continue research on methods for model reduction in stochastic chemical systems. Prof. Han’s work is focused on developing a theoretical framework...
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Future scientists explore Sandia and the CRF

Post, April 29, 2011 • On April 28, nearly 200 daughters, sons, and family friends spent the morning at Sandia’s California laboratory with their parents, getting a look at where mom and dad work and engaging in activities around the site. As always the CRF was a major player, staging several popular demonstrations and exhibits....
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January 2012

Post, March 7, 2012 • January 17 Transportation Energy Center Director, Bob Carling, conducted the CRF portion of the Leadership Livermore Annual Tour. Leadership Livermore is a program created by the Livermore Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the City of Livermore to bring different individuals and organizations together to get a “behind the scenes”...

March 2012

Post, April 25, 2012 • On March 6, the Director of the Transportation Energy Center, Bob Carling, spoke on opportunities and challenges in transportation energy at the Satellite Kick-off Symposium for I2CNER: The International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research. Held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the event lasted two days and featured speakers...

Sandia Hosts Friends and Family Day

Post, June 20, 2012 • Last month, Sandia/California vice president Rick Stulen hosted a Family and Friends Day so that researchers could share their work and achievements with those close to them. Over 1,100 visitors participated. Several CRF staff members were on hand to greet them, including researcher Mark Musculus, who kindly toured visitors through...

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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