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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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Fuel property put to the test
Post, March 9, 2021 • Sandia postdoc receives SAE Excellence in Oral Presentation Award for phi-sensitivity research Understanding the fundamentals of phi-sensitivity, a key fuel property that represents how the autoignition reactivity of the fuel varies with the fuel/air equivalence ratio, will help us increase the efficiency and facilitate the development of practical low-temperature gasoline...
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Fusion
Page • Sandia researchers have long supported DOE Fusion Energy Science efforts to make magnetic confinement fusion a practical source of electrical power. To develop this technology, Sandia’s work includes plasma-material interactions, boundary physics measurements at the DIII-D tokamak facility in San Diego, and fusion reactor blanket materials and the associated tritium...

Future Physics Study Tour Welcomed
Post, August 30, 2011 • Each year, the Vereniging voor Technische Physica (VvTP), the student association for Applied Physics students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, organizes an extended tour of top universities, high-technology multinationals and start-ups, and world-renowned research facilities. As part of this year’s tour, 29 undergraduate students and two professors...

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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Gallery
Page • CRF researchers (left to right) Scott Skeen (now at Dixie State University), Nils Hansen, and postdoc Brian Adamson (now at ThermoFisher) around the tandem mass spectrometer they used to study the structure of large hydrocarbon molecules in a sooting flame. (Photo credit: Michael Padilla) Hydrogen Production

Gasoline Combustion Fundamentals Laboratory
Page • Aggressive DOE Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP) gasoline engine fuel-economy and pollutant- emission targets can be met through some combination of reduced heat transfer, lower throttling losses, shorter combustion durations, lower combustion temperatures, improved mixture preparation, and higher compression ratios. Charge dilution by air or exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is the...

Government Officials Tour Sandia California
Post, August 26, 2011 • Chuck Mueller (left) shows Gavin Newsom (right) a high-speed movie of a new fuel-injection strategy. (Photo by Randy Wong) The On June 29, Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California, visited Sandia to learn about current and emerging energy research at the site. Hosted by Vice President Rick Stulen, Newsom learned...

Greg Wagner announced as new manager of the Thermal/Fluid Sciences Department
Post, May 10, 2012 • Greg Wagner The CRF is proud to welcome Greg Wagner as the new manager of the Thermal/Fluid Sciences Department. Dr. Wagner holds a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, all in Mechanical Engineering.  During his six-year tenure at Sandia, he has worked on Sierra...

Habib N. Najm
Staff Page • Senior Scientist, Combustion Research Facility. Biography Habib Najm is a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory. He leads a research program in computational chemical sciences and uncertainty quantification, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1993, and has worked in numerous computational science research...

Habib Najm, Lyle Pickett, and Chris Carlen receive 2014 CRF awards
Post, November 25, 2014 • Robert Barlow, left, was awarded the Combustion Institute’s Alfred C. Edgerton Gold Medal. To his right are this year’s CRF awards recipients, Lyle Pickett, Habib Najm, and Chris Carlen, who were chosen by their peers. (Photos by Dino Vournas) The CRF is proud to announce Habib Najm as the winner...
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Hanging out with the stars
Post, March 8, 2021 • Sandia establishes collaborative research facility to study pervasive and versatile low-temp plasmas Low-temperature plasma—the most pervasive state of matter in the universe—consists of gaseous mixtures of ions and electrons that interact with background neutral atoms or molecules to make them reactive. It also generates energetic photons. All this activity means...

Heavy-Duty Diesel and Gaseous-Fueled Engine Laboratory
Page • The Heavy-Duty Diesel and Gaseous-Fueled Engine Laboratory uses laser-based and imaging diagnostics to develop the science base of in-cylinder processes needed by the heavy-duty engine industry. Our research provides engineers with the necessary understanding to design cleaner, more fuel-efficient engines. Fuel injection, combustion processes, and emissions formation are studied in...

Heavy-Duty Engine Combustion and Fuel Effects Lab
Page • The Heavy-Duty Engine Combustion and Fuel Effects Laboratory centers around a modern 1.7-liter, single-cylinder diesel engine that has been modified to provide extensive optical access to the combustion chamber. Researchers apply advanced imaging, laser-based, and conventional diagnostics to gain a fundamental understanding of the detailed in-cylinder mixing and combustion processes...

High school engineering students visit CRF
Post, March 9, 2021 • Livermore High School science teacher Karen Fletcher and 12 sophomore students from the Green Engineering Academy got to see applied science in action during a Feb. 19, 2020, visit to Sandia’s California campus. Students met several Sandia engineers who shared their combustion research expertise. James Siacunco talked about his career...

High-Pressure FAGE
Page • High Pressure Fluorescence Assay for Gas Expansion (FAGE) for quantification of short-lived reaction intermediates Figure 1 High-pressure laminar flow reactor, coupled to FAGE detection chamber Technical Details Many important gas-phase processes, such as combustion or the atmospheric processing of pollutants, are complex networks of chemical reactions that occur simultaneously and involve...

Hope Michelsen elected OSA Fellow
Post, November 29, 2017 • by Micheal PadillaHope Michelsen, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, has been elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA).Hope is honored specifically for pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of laser-radiation interactions with soot particles through laser-induced incandescence (LII), absorption, and...
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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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Hydrogen
Page • Sandia National Laboratories contributes to the science of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell (H2FC) technologies by providing a deep, quantitative understanding and scientific basis for materials and safety. Through its H2FC program, Sandia researches and develops methods to discover materials for hydrogen production, storage and use, evaluating their properties and...

Imaging of Ions and Electrons for Study of Chemical Reactivity
Page • Technical Details Figure 1 Ion imaging was first demonstrated at Sandia National Labs in 1987 by a collaborative research effort between Dr. David Chandler (Sandia) and Dr. Paul Houston (Cornell University). Since then, more than 100 other laboratories have adopted this technique for the study of photochemistry, bimolecular reactivity, energy...

Imaging the Near-Surface Gas Phase
Page • Figure 5 The chemical reactivity of gases with solid surfaces is ubiquitous in natural and industrial energy transformation. Cooperative effects that couple gas phase chemistry with surface chemistry are critical for foundational understanding, but they prove challenging to probe experimentally and theoretically. Heterogenous catalysis is an ideal field in which...

Imane Khalil Joins the CRF Management Team
Post, November 29, 2012 • Imane Khalil The CRF is proud to welcome Imane Khalil as the new manager of the Energy Systems Engineering and Analysis Department. Imane holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. She Joined Sandia Albuquerque in 2004 as a technical staff...

In Memory of Jim Miller
Post, November 23, 2021 • Jim Miller In Memoriam: Jim Miller (1946–2021) Jim Miller dedicated his life to science while never losing either his warmth and interest in the people around him or his interest in the world. A theorist and research scientist, Jim was known as one of the early developers of CHEMKIN, the...
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