Transportation Energy
The national-level objective for the future is to create a carbon-neutral fleet that is powered by low-carbon US sources. Sandia delivers advanced technologies and design tools to the broad transportation sector in the following areas:
Predictive Simulation of Engines
Fuel sprays and their transition from the liquid to gas phase and computationally tractable models that capture the physics of combustion.
Convergence of Biofuels and Powertrains
Co-development of biofuels production and engine design to generate a complete systems-based understanding of new engine architectures.
Safe and Reliable Energy Storage Components and Systems
Transitioning to “beyond lithium-ion” chemistries.
Enabling a Hydrogen Infrastructure
Expertise in hydrogen science and engineering toward developing hydrogen-fuel production, distribution, and storage approaches that support the FCEV market.
- HyRAM Factsheet (2015 downloads)
- Feasibility of the SF-BREEZE: a Zero-Emission, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, High-Speed Passenger Ferry (6920 downloads)
- A Conceptual Model of DI Diesel Combustion Based on Laser-Sheet Imaging (2643 downloads)
- HyRAM 1.1.0 (4902 downloads)
- Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program (3980 downloads)
- ECIS-I2CNER: Hydrogen Infrastructure Research Aids Energy Independence Goal (2058 downloads)
- ECIS-Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation: Hydrocarbon Membrane Fuels the Success of Future Generation Vehicles (2185 downloads)
- Sandia-General Motors: Advancing Clean Combustion Engines with Predictive Simulation Tools (2221 downloads)
- Hyperspectral Imaging (2227 downloads)
- Cell-Like Vesicle Encapsulation (2336 downloads)
Webinar: Hydrogen Risk Assessment Models Update 2.0
On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 12 p.m. Eastern, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) will host a live webinar titled "Hydrogen Risk [...]
Materials for hydrogen service advanced by new multilab consortium
Sandia, PNNL lead group studying metals and polymers in hydrogen environments By Melissae Fellet Researchers at Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories are leading a collaborative effort to investigate how hydrogen affects materials such as [...]
Ducted fuel injection promises cleaner combustion
By Michael Langley Click the image to watch a video with additional information about ducted fuel injection. An engine innovation first conceived and tested by Sandia scientists has attracted the attention of big [...]
Hosting the US Drive Joint Tech Team meeting
In April, Sandia hosted the in-person joint meeting of the US Drive Hydrogen Codes & Standards Tech Team and US Drive Delivery Tech Team. Part of US Drive—an industry-government partnership that supports new technologies for [...]