ORNL researchers, in collaboration with Enginuity Power Systems, demonstrated that a micro combined heat and power prototype, or mCHP, with a piston engine can achieve an overall energy efficiency greater than 93%.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host three JUMP into STEM competition winners as building technologies interns in summer 2023.
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A few miles from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sits a quiet house in a suburban neighborhood.
A curious mind can go far at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as Ron Ott has learned over the course of a career ranging from materials research to organizational leadership.
In Chengyun Hua’s research, everything revolves around heat and how it moves. As a Russell Fellow in ORNL’s Building Equipment Research Group, Chengyun carefully analyzes nanoscale heat transfer mechanisms using laser spectroscopy.
In September, ORNL hosted the first EERE Industry Day event, which was sponsored by several offices under the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).