Facilities | PNNL

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.

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Hyperbaric Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim is home to a Hyperbaric Laboratory where research related physical, chemical, and biological processes in ocean waters is conducted.

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In-water Testing Capabilities at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim has multiple venues within Sequim Bay for in-water research where instruments, systems, and operations are designed and tested.

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Institute for Integrated Catalysis

Now in its 15th year, the Institute for Integrated Catalysis (IIC) provides the insight, the synthetic tools, and the engineering concepts to enable chemical and chemical-electrical energy transformations.

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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.

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Interdiction Technology and Integration Laboratory

The Interdiction Technology and Integration Laboratory (ITIL) at PNNL is a large-scale, indoor-outdoor test and research facility that is flexible and expandable.

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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.

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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.

Lighting Metrology Laboratory

Lighting Metrology Laboratory

The nationally accredited Lighting Metrology Laboratory enables evaluation of advanced lighting systems. The facility provides accurate testing of non-standard lighting products for comparison and application evaluation.

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Lumen Maintenance Test Facility

The Lumen Maintenance Test Facility was established to test next-generation lighting products. The facility has two automated light bulb test apparatuses that are able to test over 200 light bulbs each.

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Marine Test Sites

PNNL has federal authorizations and permits for research activities at two locations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These sites offer a range of research conditions.

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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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Mercury Analytical Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim's Mercury Analytical Laboratory conducts ultra-trace level measurements of both mercury and monomethyl mercury in sediments, water, biological tissue, and other matrices.

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Microalgal Research at PNNL-Sequim

The microalgal research capability at PNNL-Sequim focuses on research that improves the economics of microalgal biofuels.

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Mineral Extraction from Seawater at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim maintains temperature-controlled natural seawater exposure systems for evaluating how well advanced technologies can extract critical elements.

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Oil Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

The Oil Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim measures physical and bulk-chemical properties of oil in water or ice.

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Organic Chemistry Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim is home to an organic chemistry laboratory.

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Outdoor Experimental Tanks at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim enable has eight tanks for conducting controlled and mid-scale research on shoreline, intertidal, and near-shore ecosystems.

PNNL's Power Electronics Laboratory

Power Electronics Laboratory

The Power Electronics Laboratory offers capabilities for testing and developing control concepts and technologies. The work here contributes to solutions for transactive energy, residential load flexibility, and more.

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Process Development Units

Scientists and engineers at PNNL have long performed research with hydrothermal liquefaction. PNNL's expertise is available to industry partners.

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Radiochemical Processing Laboratory

Radiological R&D—including advanced reactors, legacy waste clean-up, nuclear nonproliferation, forensics, medical isotopes, actinide processing, and radiochemistry—is done in this Hazard Category II non-reactor nuclear research facility.