Researcher’s award-winning work garners commercial interest
Evan J. Granite believes in keeping busy, and luckily, his role as a
chemical engineer and research group leader at DOE's National Energy
Technology Laboratory allows him to do so. Specifically, he
investigates the best way to remove mercury, arsenic, selenium, and
carbon dioxide from flue and fuel gases in a cost-effective manner,
thereby creating a cleaner environment.
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Roadrunner models shock wave effects on materials at atomic scale
Because of the Roadrunner supercomputer’s unique capability, scientists are for the first time attempting to create atomic-scale models that describe how voids are created in materials, mostly metals, how they grow, and merge; how the materials may swell or shrink under stress; and how once broken bonds might reattach, and they’re doing it at size and time scales that approach those of actual experiments, so that the models can be validated experimentally.
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The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research in physics, structural biology, energy science, chemistry and a host of other fields.
Like Superman, scientists can now "see" through layers of earth and rock. Unlike the Man of Steel, researchers are using this new ability to learn how microbes are halting uranium’s movement in groundwater underneath nuclear weapons sites. This new ability is known as surface spectral-induced polarization approach or SSIP.
An innovative wind energy system designed to produce more power and last longer than traditional windmills is being tested at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory. The system's most obvious distinction is the helicopter-like airfoils that rotate parallel to the ground, unlike most commercial turbines.
For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.
An additional $1.8 million in stimulus funding will benefit three innovative fusion energy research concepts at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The additional funding will be used for new instrumentation for critical measurements in fusion reactions, exploration of novel liquid lithium walls in a fusion machine, and an alternate approach for a fusion machine configuration—all research areas in the development of fusion as a potential energy source.