With more than100 visiting researchers each year, many paths cross at the Combustion Research Facility. The CRF reunion luncheon, held during the 35th International Symposium on Combustion in San Francisco the first week of August, brought together a number of current staff, retirees, past and present postdocs, and other visitors. Three CRF directors were in…
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 of the current multiplexed gas-phase chemical kinetics instrument. Specifically, the two researchers are focusing on developing…
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; Reuben Sarkar, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation; Kevin Fitzmaurice, Special Assistant to the EERE Assistant Secretary; Libby Wayman, Director of the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative; Austin…