Biological and Environmental Sciences Directorate

News and Events

January 2013

  • Studies quantify the effect of increasing highway speed on fuel economy

November 2012

  • WUFI ("Warme und Feuchte Instationar," or transient heat and moisture). A family of PC-based software tools jointly developed by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics and ORNL,...
    Read more at BuildingGreen.

October 2012

  • A New Era in Automotive Engine Development Driven by HPC

September 2012

  • ORNL working to charge cars on the fly
  • ORNL roof and attic design proves efficient in summer and winter

August 2012

  • ORNL debuts energy-saving heat pump

July 2012

  • Roofing energy efficiency: more than a simple black and white issue

June 2012

  • ORNL home to new battery manufacturing R&D facility
  • Here Comes Electric Propulsion
  • Geothermal Heat Pumps: The Next Generation

May 2012

  • Feds tally payback time for hybrids; instant for some
  • Mid-project data from study suggests hydrogen vehicles could have up to 70% market share by 2050
  • Metal Roofing Research Reaches Final Stage

April 2012

  • A Push to Make Motors with Fewer Rare Earths
  • A Technology Breakthrough for Geothermal
  • Roof of the Future? Oak Ridge, Metals Group Seek the Ideal Design
  • Electric grid game changer
  • Ford And Dow Team Up to Bring Low-Cost, High-Volume Carbon Fiber Composites to Next-Generation Vehicles

March 2012

  • ClimateMaster Trilogy 40 breaks 40 EER Barrier
  • Better heat exchanger is key to heat pump efficiency
  • When the road charges your electric car
  • Biggest Energy Loser sparks "light-bulb moment"

February 2012

  • ORNL supported GE's hybrid water heater

 

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Energy & Transportation Science Division

Welcome

The mission of the Energy and Transportation Science Division is to develop and deploy knowledge and technology that enables the transformation of our energy systems in a manner that allows America to achieve energy independence, energy security, global economic leadership and environmental sustainability. The challenge to reduce the nation’s energy use and to transition to alternative energy sources while supporting continued prosperity and mitigating environmental consequences is particularly urgent due to the rapid growth in the economies, and concomitant increased demand for resources, from some of the worlds largest developing nations. The expertise of ETSD’s 150 employees is concentrated in the following four Technology Centers:

  1. The Building Technologies Research and Integration Center
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  2. The Power Electronics and Electrical Power Systems Research Center
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  3. The Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center
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  4. The Center for Transportation Analysis
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