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Aquatic Research Laboratory

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.

318 Building

318 Building

Expertise in the 318 Building—the Radiological Exposures and Metrology (REM) Laboratory—supports health physics, radiation dosimetry, irradiation research design, Monte Carlo modeling, radiation biology, engineering, and radiography.

ARENA Test Bed

Accelerated Real-Time Environmental Nodal Assessment (ARENA) Test Bed

Accelerated Real-Time Environmental Nodal Assessment (ARENA) test bed determines how electrical cables degrade in extreme environments and how their condition can be effectively monitored.

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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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Battery Reliability Test Laboratory

The Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL is a world class battery testing facility that has been established to accelerate the development of grid energy storage technologies that will help modernize the power grid.

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Building Operations Control Center

The Building Operations Control Center enables researchers and operations staff to connect to intelligent infrastructure from the smart grid, allowing access to extensive data from PNNL campus buildings, systems, and components.

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Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis

PNNL is the lead institution for the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME), an EFRC that seeks to establish the fundamental principles needed for efficient interconversion of electrical energy and chemical bonds.

CSSAS

Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales

PNNL has partnered with University of Washington (UW) to co-lead the Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales, an EFRC based at UW.

EIOC West

Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center

Shaped with input from utilities, technology vendors, and researchers, the Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center serves as a unique platform for researching, developing, and deploying technologies to improve grid management.

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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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Energy Frontier Research Centers

The Department of Energy has established a network of Energy Frontier Research Centers throughout the nation.

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Energy Sciences Center

Scheduled for completion in 2021, a new Energy Sciences building will serve as a focal point for the synergistic research being conducted among PNNL scientists and academic partners

Environmental Chambers at PNNL

Environmental Chambers

PNNL’s environmental chambers allow researchers to compare indoor and outdoor performance of building equipment to improve efficiency, standards, and more.

Grid Storage Launchpad at PNNL

The DOE’s Office of Electricity has selected PNNL as the site for a new, national grid energy storage research and development (R&D) facility to accelerate the development of the next generation of grid energy storage technologies.

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High Throughput Center

At PNNL’s High Throughput Center, robots handle routine and repetitive small-scale laboratory tasks to improve the researchers’ labor landscape—and productivity.

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Integrated Building Assets

PNNL's unique integrated building assets include the Systems Engineering Building, Thermal Energy Storage System, Power Electronics Laboratory, two large batteries, and electric vehicle chargers.

iDREAM

Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials

PNNL is the lead institution for Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM), an EFRC that seeks to master molecular-to-mesoscale chemical and physical phenomena at interfaces in complex environments.

IoTCOE

Internet of Things Common Operating Environment

PNNL has established the Internet of Things Common Operating Environment as an Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things research and development laboratory.

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Materials Science and Technology Building

At PNNL’s Materials Science and Technology Building, researchers identify and predict degradation of materials in extreme environments, such as components within nuclear power plants, before damage leads to failure.

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Radiological Microscopy Suite

The Radiological Microscopy Suite at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provides highly sensitive instruments to examine and characterize radioactive materials.

Redox Flow Battery Laboratories

Redox Flow Battery Laboratories

PNNL has a series of three laboratories dedicated to researching, testing redox, and scaling up flow batteries—a battery type used primarily for power grid applications.