Received IChemE award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering
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Selected for Power & Engineering Society's Best of the Best Conference Paper Award
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Appointed to editorial board for the Journal of Heterocyclics
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Selected as a rising professional by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
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 As the first-of-its-kind regional partnership, research collaborators in Washington State are deploying smart technologies in a multi-campus demonstration to test "transaction-based" energy management - an energy management approach that uses dynamic control and coordination to balance energy use among and across multiple buildings. Equipped with PNNL's...
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| Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy |
A computational tool to improve power grid planning, a process to create biofuel from kelp, and a hybrid device that makes hydrogen and stores energy are all being developed by PNNL and its partners under new projects just announced by DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy...
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| Electricity Infrastructure |
New technologies and the evolving needs of society are forcing changes in the structure of the grid. To help inform development of system architecture and control solutions, PNNL's Jeff Taft helped develop a new reference model for control of the electric distribution system. The model recognizes that grid... read more.
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| Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Small, tailored mini-refineries located where waste is produced - such as farms and ranches, waste water treatment plants, food processing centers, and similar locations - could convert 85 percent of the nation's abandoned carbon into useful energy. By largely eliminating secondary processing and transportation costs, greenhouse gases can be reduced by... read more.
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Two recent lighting demonstrations, one at an airport and one at a university, addressed a different set of problems faced within the lighting industry. Together, the DOE-supported demonstrations are estimated to save more than...
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The newly updated Facility Energy Decision System, or FEDS software, simulates building energy use and identifies cost-effective measures, such as upgrading lighting or HVAC systems. Version 7.0 enhances the available...
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A $1.3 million research buoy, the second of its kind, was recently deployed off of the coast of New Jersey. Each buoy is equipped with meteorological and oceanographic gear that measure and help predict the power-producing potential of...
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Researchers from PNNL partnered with DOE to publish a Final Rule that enforces changes for Single Package Vertical Units. The new requirements are expected to save 16 billion kilowatt-hours of energy and reduce emissions by... read more.
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BC Hydro - the predominant utility in Canada's western-most province - faces an electricity demand increase of 40 percent by 2035. Having recently partnered with PNNL to identify and analyze practical design solutions, they found...
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| Environmental Health and Remediation |
A new tool for producing irradiated samples promises to tell researchers more about waste behavior during cleanup activities at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The tool, known as an irradiator in the industry and dubbed the "gamma bunker" by the PNNL team that built it, consists of a lead-shielded cask with a radioactive source centered in the cavity. Researchers can arrange samples in different ways around the source depending on the...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and PNNL have established an agreement to use and customize
PNNL-developed software in the evaluation of permits for geological sequestration. EPA follows very strict protocols during permit application reviews, and PNNL's software will actively assist EPA with reporting, data management, and collaboration. This streamlines the permit... read more.
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Using computer simulations, PNNL researchers discovered that carbon dioxide can find its way into atomic voids on carbon sequestering minerals and solidify without the use of water-slurping carbonic acid. With just a small amount of... read more.
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Nuclear fuel reprocessing plants sometimes emit iodine-129, a radioisotope that while low in activity, can persist in the environment for millions of years due to its long half-life. Researchers at PNNL are
developing silver-functionalized silica aerogel for removal and immobilization of iodine compounds from the off-gas of these plants. In lab tests, the aerogel exhibited excellent...
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In October, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted an operating license for the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2. The environmental review for the reactor, the first to be granted a license in two decades, used PNNL's...
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