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Evaluating vehicle emissions controls

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL researchers are developing software tools for supercomputers that will simulate engine exhaust from various lean-burn diesel and gasoline engines as it flows through envisioned catalytic converters designed to chemically transform pollutants into harmless emissions.

ORNL weigh-in-motion system could increase military mobility

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Armed with an automated weigh-in-motion system being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. military forces could increase mobility and decrease mistakes when loading vehicles on transport planes and ships.

Anti-electrons help researchers find nano-surface defects in gold

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tiny defects in the surface of common material - from silicon to steel -- determine the properties of material and how it can be used. Unfortunately, many of these pores, called vacancies, are so small they cannot be accurately measured. Today an international team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is applying the use of positrons, or anti-electrons, to the task of measurement.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ENERGY - Solar energy could get a megaboost, effectively gaining a three-fold improvement over conventional technology... ENVIRONMENT - Increasingly stringent standards for sulfur emissions from vehicles could be met with a new process... ELECTRONICS - An ultra-clean ozone-collecting process with applications for producing revolutionary semiconductors... MILITARY - An automated weigh-in-motion system being developed.

ORNL technology could make solar energy more viable

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solar energy could get a mega-boost, effectively gaining a three-fold improvement over conventional technology, with a system being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The tips include:

BIOLOGY -- Spinach and chips . . .
CHEMISTRY -- New tool for archaeologists . . .
BIOLOGY -- 10 billion for dinner . . .
ELECTRONICS -- New smart surfaces . . .
ENVIRONMENT -- Reigning in uranium . . .

ORNL helping industry establish value of cool roofs

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Light-colored roofs that reflect the sun’s heat can save consumers money, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working with the roofing industry to predict the amount of savings and establish standards to help consumers compare materials.

Story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Energy -- a cool concept. Instrumentation -- sensor in a drum. Environment -- compare from your chair. Energy -- putting a tiger in your tank.

DOE establishes test bed for storage-intensive applications

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Deparment of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center are tackling the data storage challenge with Probe, a newly established test bed for storage-intensive applications.

Story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

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