Finding the right mix to make engines cleaner

Diesel fuel, used to fuel vehicles, heavy machinery, and generators, produces harmful emissions like particulate matter (soot) and nitrogen oxides when burned. Sandia’s Charles Mueller and collaborators were recently featured for their work as part of an Energy I-Corps team that focused on lowering harmful emissions from diesel engines. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions’ Energy I-Corps program offers an intensive, two-month commercialization training to national laboratory teams to set up their clean energy technology for a successful market launch. The ducted fuel injection team, funded by the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office, participated in Cohort 13 and has since advanced their technology readiness level through a Technology Commercialization Fund award and formed a CRADA with partners from Energy I-Corps.