LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...... In 1995 hundreds of Tokyo subway rescuers were exposed to the deadly nerve gas sarin hours before police confirmed its identity. Earlier this year, soldiers in Iraq worried about a similar fate. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have now come up with a way to warn commuters, emergency crews and troops about a toxic gas release. A device called a high resolution infrared spe...LabNotes -- research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...... Runny ketchup isn't just bad on a burger, it's bad business for the food manufacturer that may have process control problems adversely affecting product quality and manufacturing costs. To ensure puddings, sauces and other fluid products have the viscosity, texture and other characteristics consumers expect, most manufacturers must conduct time-consuming manual batch sampling. Problems ma.... . .Portable buoy charters promising voyage - Buoys - permanent, single-purpose moorings, right? Not so, if its part of a promising new buoy developed by researchers at the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at its Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, Wash.. .The Aquatic Bio-optical and Environmental Assessment Monitoring Buoy is designed to validate satellite signals...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
.System helps prevent power grid failures - In the age of electricity deregulation, information has become equivalent to power. Providers who know of potential outage conditions often can take action to ensure "the lights stay on" if they have the right information. A system developed using technology from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Bonneville Powe...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
. Outsmarting power plant failures - An intelligent system . developed at the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National . Laboratory could outsmart problems that lead to expensive emergency . shutdowns at nuclear power plants worldwide. The Self-Diagnostic . Monitoring System, or SDMS, uses a wireless architecture of . software, smart sensors and data processing to diagnose and predict...