Pressurized Flow Reactor Facility (PFR)

The Pressurized Flow Reactor (PFR) Facility is designed to examine the oxidation of hydrocarbons in the low, intermediate and negative temperature coefficient regimes (600-1100 K), and pressures ranging from atmospheric to 20 atmospheres.  The basic experimental approach is to perform bench scale experimental studies on pure hydrocarbons and mixtures of hydrocarbons, including straight and branched chain alkanes, important alkenes, aromatics, and industry standard fuels. During an experiment, intermediate oxidation species are removed, identified, and quantified with various analytical techniques (GC, FTIR, and/or GC/MSD).  This work provides chemical information for the development of kinetic models to describe low and intermediate temperature hydrocarbon chemistry.  This information has potentially important applications to the ignition in diesel and gasoline engines, cold start capability in diesel engines, and engine emissions.
Sandia Single-Cylinder Engine Facility

Laser Diagnostics Facility

Combustion Analysis Facility

The Combustion Analysis Facility is designed to support of the analytical chemistry needs of several different research facilities.  The main focus is the identification and quantification of stable gas phase hydrocarbons and other by-products generated by various combustion processes.  A brief list of the analytical equipment is listed below:

Thermo-Finnigan TRACE DSQ Single Quadrupole GC/MS
Hewlett-Packard 5890 Series II Gas Chromatographs
Varian Star 3600 Gas Chromatograph
Varian 3400 Gas Chromatographs
Bio-Rad  FTS-60A Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (with GC support)
Bio-Rad  FTS-60 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers
Siemens Ultramat 22P CO/CO2 NDIR Gas Analyzers
NOx Gas Analyzers
Total Hydrocarbon Gas Analyzers
 and other assorted analyzers
Droplet Combustion Facility

Gas Turbine Combustion Facility

High Performance Computing Facility
Product Type: IBM 7017
Product Model: S80
Product Name: Enterprise Server
Platform: RS/6000
Speed: 0.675Gflops
Operating System: IBM AIX 4.3.3
Hardware Specs:
Two 6-way 450 MHz RS64 III processors, each with 128 MB L1 and 8 MB L2 cache per processor. (total of 12 processors)
Two 4096Mb memory cards (total 8 GB memory)
Nine 18.2 GB Hard Disk Drives. (Total 164 GB Storage Space)