Facilities

Specialized facilities are essential to the advancement of PNNL’s sponsored research programs and LDRD-funded projects.

Unique facilities at PNNL, including dedicated laboratories for power grid operations, marine sciences, data analytics, and atmospheric sciences, equip researchers to take on some of the most challenging questions, and expand the frontiers of scientific understanding and technological possibility.

In addition to more than two dozen state-of-the-art facilities supporting the laboratory’s missions in scientific discovery, energy resiliency, and national security, PNNL is the steward of two U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facilities, ARM and EMSL, serving more than 2,000 researchers worldwide each year.

Applied Process Engineering Laboratory

The Applied Process Engineering Laboratory (APEL) is a business startup center designed for innovators in engineering, manufacturing, and technology.

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Different components of SIP column experiments are laid out on the tray with the electrical connection boxes in the background, major components include remedial amendments (small vials), sediments (bottles), column components, and electrodes (silver-silver chloride wires).

Applied Subsurface Science and Characterization Laboratory

State-of-the-art instrumentation and analytical techniques enable characterization of the critical properties of sediment and rock that control the subsurface movement and reactions of chemicals, water, and gases.

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Carbon Capture Laboratory

Using specialized equipment, PNNL's multidisciplinary researchers are making fundamental discoveries and transforming them into solutions to capture carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere.

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Carbon Mineralization Laboratories

The carbon mineralization laboratories and capabilities at PNNL-Richland help accelerate commercial-scale deployment of geologic carbon dioxide storage coupled with critical mineral recovery and other frontier low-carbon technologies.

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Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory

The Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory enables subsurface fluid dynamics modeling, stability prediction of perforation tunnels, simulation test design, fluid removal or injection monitoring, and more.

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Energy Earthshot Research Centers

PNNL leads two of DOE's multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary EERCs: the Center for Understanding Subsurface Signals and Permeability (CUSSP) and Addressing Challenges in Energy: Floating Wind in a Changing Climate (ACE-FWICC).

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Rapid Prototyping Lab

The Rapid Prototyping Lab at PNNL is a makerspace, where a skilled team of engineers and technologists work in the lab, directly with clients, to design and produce relatively inexpensive prototype components for research projects.

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