Tag: PNNL

By Steve Wilhelm, Puget Sound Business Journal The FAA announced, September 13th, the creation of The Center of Excellence in Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment will be based at Washington State University in Richland, WA and will include the University of Washington among its 16 university partners. Other partners include PNNL, Alaska Airlines, Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, […]

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New super-efficient rooftop units (Rebel) that heat and cool commercial buildings offer significant energy and dollar savings, say scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. They found that the devices reduce energy costs an average of about 41 percent compared to units in operation today. The team found that the Rebel reduced energy […]

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Inflate your tires. Accelerate slowly. Change the oil. Invest $1.1 million in advanced vehicle research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. While the first three methods boost fuel efficiency one vehicle at a time, the laboratory research by PNNL scientists — who are creating some of the most sophisticated materials and scientific […]

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A lightweight metal that reduces fuel use in cars and planes could be extracted from the ocean through a unique process being developed at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The process could ultimately make fuel-efficient transportation more affordable and expand the American magnesium market. Among the lightest of metals, magnesium is used in […]

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The newest catalytic converters in diesel engines blast away a pollutant from combustion with the help of ammonia. Common in European cars, the engines exhaust harmless nitrogen and water. How they do this hasn’t been entirely clear until now. New research shows that the catalyst attacks its target pollutant in an unusual way,  by coming […]

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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are testing a device that can harness solar heat to increase a natural-gas power plant’s efficiency 25 percent from the same amount of fuel. The PNNL approach builds on what’s called solar thermal energy production. Instead of relying on photovoltaic cells to directly convert sunlight into energy, solar thermal […]

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