Experimental Capabilities
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Fundamental Emission Catalysis Capabilities
Enable evaluation of aftertreatment catalysts and their interactions with biofuel blendstocks using a broad range of instruments and surface science techniques. Read More
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Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
This fuel characterization capability offers fingerprinting fuels or quantifying species in a fuel blend using isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Read More
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Materials/Component Compatibility with Advanced Fuels
Experimental facility to assess materials compatibility with liquid-phase and vapor phase simultaneously for over 100 different metal and/or polymer samples under controlled temperature and pressure conditions for each fuel sample of interest. We use a host of measurements and analytical techniques to measure swelling, weight gain, and leaching, and other material property changes. Read More
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Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for New Fuels and Blended with Gasoline or Diesel Fuels
Reduced mechanisms for fuel components, fuel blends, and surrogate mixtures (to represent real fuels) will be developed to target key qualities (ignition phasing, flame speed, heat release rate, emissions) over a wide range of temperature, pressure, equivalence ratio and EGR. Read More
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Surrogate Mixtures Developed to Represent Real Fuel Properties
Surrogates for gasoline, diesel, and their mixtures with new fuels are developed to match desired fuel properties including RON, MON, cetane number, distillation curve, H/C ratio, density, carbon types, chemical classes, PMI and yield-sooting index (YSI). Read More
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Synthetic Biology & Advanced Fermentation Strategies for Biofuels
The broad range of synthetic biology, metabolic and biochemical engineering and advanced fermentation capabilities, including computational approaches, can significantly accelerate biofuel development. Read More
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Thermochemical Process Development
NREL and PNNL have available engineering and pilot-scale systems to develop, test and refine processes for thermochemical conversion of biomass to liquid fuels and chemicals. Read More