Tag Archives: ORNL
UT Team Helps Turn Plastic into Asphalt Modifier
UT is the lead organization on a DOE-funded project reusing waste plastic as a high-quality asphalt modifier, helping the environment & creating durable roadways.
Flexible Turbines Could Upgrade Wind Energy Capture
In Haochen Li’s Ψ (Psi) Lab, undergrad Jeffrey Lind is simulating improvements to the unique Wells turbine, which captures wave energy from bidirectional winds.
UT Research Team Creating Innovative, Eco-Friendly Concrete Mixtures
A group from CEE is working with the Tennessee Department of Transportation to develop new concrete mixtures that will be more eco-friendly and cost efficient.
Zhou’s New Tech Has Low-Income Housing Covered
Zhou awarded $1.5 million to develop an innovative technique called Monolnsu that will insulate and seal a home’s exterior to reduce energy consumption by buildings.
UT Partners with Enexor to Help Improve Renewable Energy Efficiency
Enexor BioEnergy and CEE’s Dayakar Penumadu have teamed up to design and build a combustion engine that can burn waste products with zero carbon emissions.
Ghosh Develops Greener, Faster-Drying Concrete
Doctoral student Debalina Ghosh developed a new concrete formula that both quickens the drying time of precast concrete and has a reduced carbon footprint.
Disease-Resistant Buildings and Infrastructure for Resilience to COVID-19
Professor Qiang He and Assistant Professor Shuai Li received a RAPID Award to research disease-resistant infrastructure to mitigate the spread of infectious pathogens.
Core Strength
The failure of concrete in any form of construction is troubling enough, but add in the ‘failure-is-not-an-option’ component of nuclear […]
Terry Hazen Makes a Career of Researching Benefits of Microorganisms
Terry Hazen, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology, was recently profiled on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website. The profile […]
CEE professor Dayakar Penumadu to Lead Joint Investigation with Oak Ridge National Lab and RMX Technologies
CEE professor Dayakar Penumadu will lead a joint investigation with ORNL and RMX Technologies to demonstrate standard modulus carbon fiber from textile PAN.