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Accelerating research of complex chemistry problems
Post, January 19, 2022 • The Exascale Catalytic Chemistry project, a partnership with Sandia, Argonne, and Pacific Northwest national laboratories, and Brown and Northeastern universities, started in 2017 and brings together physical chemists and applied mathematicians to design computational tools that can take advantage of the world's most powerful computers to speed up understanding of...
Exascale Catalytic Chemistry project, a partnership with Sandia, Argonne, and Pacific Northwest national laboratories, and Brown and Northeastern universities, started in 2017 and brings together physical chemists and applied mathematicians to design computational tools

Announcing the continuation of the Spray Combustion Consortium
Post, June 8, 2018 • We invite you to join the next phase – transferring basic research into more predictive spray combustion CFD models thereby reducing development time and costs of future high-efficiency engines. Background The Spray Combustion Consortium (SCC) is an industry-funded activity aiming to improve engine combustion system design and optimization tools. Formed...
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CRF confronts COVID-19 and gets back to work
Post, March 8, 2021 • The 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 affected all of the Labs’ sites with enforced stay-at-home orders in most locations. The Chemistry, Combustion and Materials Science Center, including the CRF, is located in California where the governor mandated a statewide quarantine in March 2020, which stayed in force for more than eight...

Dedication, curiosity earn chemist DOE Early Career Award
Post, June 16, 2022 • CRF Scientist Krupa Ramasesha Each year, the Department of Energy awards five-year, $2.5M, Early Career Award grants to young scientists, chosen through a highly competitive research proposal selection process. For CRF scientist Krupa Ramasesha, winning the Department of Energy’s Early Career Award means that she can launch an in-depth study...
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Fabulous at Forty!
Post, April 5, 2021 • Fueling the Future Established at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, as the first U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facility, since the early 1980s the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) has served as a national and international leader in combustion science and technology for more than 40 years. As the...

Finding a molecular needle in a haystack
Post, July 7, 2017 • Bálint Sztáray, left, from the University of the Pacific, and Sandia National Laboratories chemist David Osborn display the PEPICO instrument. Sandia Labs creates better ‘fingerprints’ to detect elusive, valuable chemical compounds By Sarah Sewel Imagine being able to see the entire Statue of Liberty and a small ant on its...

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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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...

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...

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...

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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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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Jackie Chen inducted into Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Post, March 15, 2016 • by Michael Padilla Jackie Chen, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility, will be inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame on March 19 in Oakland, California. Jackie is being honored in the area of science and technology for her contributions...
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Jackie Chen to give keynote address at ISC High performance conference in Germany
Post, February 17, 2016 • By Michael Padilla Jackie Chen, distinguished member of technical staff at the Combustion Research Facility, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, June 21, at the ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The keynote session will highlight contributions from female researchers and scientists in advancing the field...
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Mark Musculus named SAE fellow
Post, March 15, 2016 • by Michael Padilla Sandia National Laboratories combustion researcher Mark Musculus has been named a fellow of SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers. Established in 1975, the fellow designation honors long-term SAE members who have made a significant impact on society’s mobility technology through leadership, research and innovation. Only...
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New engine optics to fuel future research
Post, November 29, 2017 • by Michael PadillaSandia team develops optical diagnostic that helps improve fuel economy while reducing emissionsA new optical device at Sandia National Laboratories that helps researchers image pollutants in combusting fuel sprays might lead to clearer skies in the future.An optical setup developed by researchers at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility and...
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Outstanding Technology: Ducted Fuel Injection
Post, March 9, 2021 • Sandia researchers won an Outstanding Technology Development Award for its work on ducted fuel injection (DFI), a patented technology that slashes emissions of soot and nitrogen oxides from diesel engines by about 80% and is synergistic with sus­tainable liquid fuels like biodiesel. According to Chuck Mueller, who leads the project,...

Robert Kolasinski wins DOE Early Career Award
Post, May 10, 2016 • By Michael Padilla Robert Kolasinski (8366) has received a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to support his work on how intense fusion plasmas interact with the interior surfaces of fusion reactors. Robert’s research will develop the scientific foundations...
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Sandia Celebrates Women in Research
Post, March 9, 2021 • Sandia researcher shares her story At a March 2021 Sandia Labs celebration of Women’s History Month, Dr. Jacqueline (Jackie) Chen—senior scientist in the chemistry, combustion, and materials science division at Sandia’s Livermore, California site—shares her success stories and career path to inspire other women in research. Jackie, honored in 2020...
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Sandia chemists discover new pathway in mechanism of soot formation
Post, December 9, 2015 • By Michael Padilla Chemists at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility have discovered a new mechanism leading to soot formation, providing new facts to make models of soot formation more predictive, furthering DOE’s goal of reducing soot formation in practical combustion devices. “This work is important because it shows how the process...
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Sandia debuts the Livermore Valley Open Campus website
Post, May 22, 2012 • Through an exciting partnership between two Department of Energy national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) was recently established as a space for open, collaborative work in areas such as bioscience, cyber security, detection technologies, and hydrogen applications. The newly-opened LVOC is a 110-acre campus that brings...

Sandia develops autoignition model designed for efficient, accurate engine simulations
Post, May 13, 2016 • About the photo: Sandia National Laboratories postdoctoral researcher Layal Hakim, center, working with Joe Oefelein, left, and Guilhem Lacaze, designed and implemented an optimized chemical model that describes autoignition of a diesel fuel surrogate. By Michael Padilla Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a model for how diesel engines...
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Sandia hosts Chinese delegation
Post, May 3, 2017 • by Michael Padilla Opening doors for innovation and entrepreneurships opportunities is key for Sandia/California.  As part of that commitment, Sandia/California hosted a delegation of municipal leaders from Luzhou, China, on Thursday, April 20. Luzhou, located in the Sichuan Province of China, is known as the wine city of China.  “Partnering with...

Sandia influences ocean research with hybrid hydrogen fuel cell vessel design
Post, January 31, 2022 • FUEL CELL FUTURE — An Engineering model of a new Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel that incorporates hydrogen fuel cells with a liquid hydrogen tank — labelled LH2. The vessel was conceived by Sandia, Glosten and Scripps, with the hydrogen fuel cell providing power for propulsion and energy for...
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