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DOE names INEEL battery electrolyte best consumer product

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The DOE honored a team of chemists at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory for battery technology that demonstrates the DOE's commitment to improve the quality of life for consumers. The Bright Light and Energy@23 award-winning solid polymer electrolyte promises safer, more versatile and longer-lasting rechargeable batteries.

Funder: US Department of Energy

DOE honors INEEL RSP tooling fabrication process

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The DOE honored the INEEL's Rapid Solidification Process (RSP) Tooling with an Energy@23 award for technology that demonstrates the DOE's commitment to save taxpayers money. This is the second technology award for RSP Tooling, a quick, spray-deposition method for creating dies for mass production of everything from toys to car parts.

Funder: US Department of Energy

Naturally occurring radiogenic isotopes make effective groundwater flow tracers

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers successfully identified regional groundwater flow paths in the Eastern Snake River Plain aquifer by analyzing radiogenic isotope ratios. Changes in the ratios of naturally occurring isotopes strontium-87 and strontium-86 are indicative of fast and slow aquifer flow zones.

Journal: Geology
Funder: Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy

Energy Department awards Idaho partnership $1.9 million to stimulate nation's biobased industry

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Amalgamated Research, Inc. in Twin Falls, Idaho, will receive $1.9 million over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a federal effort to stimulate the nation's biobased products industry.

Funder: Department of Energy

Energy department's Idaho lab teams with Russia to establish Ecological Biotrade facility

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and four Russian biological institutes announced plans to work with Diversa Corporation to establish a Russian Ecological Biotrade Center to explore that country's biodiversity potential for developing important new commercial products.

INEEL and UI receive grant to improve jet engines

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A grant from the Air Force Office of Science Research will help improve the design of jet engine turbine blades. The researchers plan to study disturbances in flow around a quartz model that simulates a turbine blade’s surface. But instead of relying on a supercomputer or wind tunnel to study flow, they will use baby oil and lasers.

Funder: US Air Force Office of Science Research

Helping energy conservation projects survive the budget axe

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Companies considering energy conservation measures must balance each measure's price tag with the expected energy savings. INEEL energy engineers reveal that a more comprehensive analysis of a company's energy costs could increase the value of the project, allowing the company to carry out conservation plans that might otherwise appear too expensive.

Journal: Energy Engineering
Funder: The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

INEEL researchers create mighty magnets with minuscule structure

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory researchers have discovered a way to make magnets used in computer hard drives and motors more powerful and durable, while also slashing their manufacturing costs

Funder: Department of Energy

Six universities, INEEL announce collaborative research projects

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Thirteen research projects have been selected for initial funding as part of the first joint collaborative effort between the Inland Northwest Research Alliance and DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The goal is to develop environmental cleanup methods that can be used in a variety of applications.

Funder: Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory, Inland Northwest Research Alliance

DOE charts 25-year vadose zone research effort

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The U.S. Department of Energy has tasked the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory to lead the development of a science and technology roadmap to identify research over the next 25 years that would improve the ability to estimate subsurface contaminant movements. Known as the DOE Complex-Wide Vadose Zone Science & Technology Roadmap, the draft document calls for a better scientific foundation for decision-making with respect to the vadose zone.

Funder: Department of Energy

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