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After 40 years, Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility still driving toward the future

May 18, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The weather on March 6, 1981, was nothing too remarkable for the San Francisco Bay Area — a little drizzle with temperatures in the 50s and fairly calm wind. The remarkable event that day was taking place on Sandia National Laboratories’ California campus, but even those who...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Chemical Kinetics, combustion, Combustion Research Facility, CRF, ducted fuel injection, energy, Ion imaging, Rapid Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides

New look at old data leads to cleaner engines

June 10, 2019 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — New insights about how to understand and ultimately control the chemistry of ignition behavior and pollutant formation have been discovered in research led by Sandia National Laboratories. The discovery eventually will lead to cleaner, more efficient in…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Topics: combustion research, CRF

Sandia researcher elected fellow of the American Physical Society

October 10, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jacqueline Chen has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. Chen was honored for her fundamental insights into turbulence-chemistry interactions revealed through massively pa…

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: combustion research, CRF, Jackie Chen

Sandia explores aggressive high-efficiency sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines

June 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are helping to develop sparkplug-free engines that will help meet ambitious automotive fuel economy targets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.[caption id="" align="alignleft" wid…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: auto engine, car engine, combustion research, CRF, fuel efficiency, University of Minnesota