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Projects/Capabilities by Department

• Environmental Business Development
• Environmental Monitoring and Characterization
• Environmental Restoration Operations
• Environmental Restoration Technology
• Geochemistry
• Geohydrology
• Geomechanics
• Geophysical Technology
• Geothermal Research
• Underground Storage Technology

Related Programs

• Environmental Risk and Decision Analysis
• WIPP Chemical and Disposal Room Processes
• Environmental Technology Projects - Sandia California
• Robotics Technology Development Program

Projects are also organized by Topical Categories.

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Flow Visualization and Processes Laboratory (WWW)

• Overview
• Automated Multiscale Permeameter
• Automated Two-Phase Flow Test System
• DNAPLs [Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids]
• Transmitted Light Imaging
• Vadose Zone Field Infiltration Testing
• Visualization and Quantification of Diffusion Processes in Consolidated Materials
• X-ray Absorption Imaging System

Field-Scale Testing (WWW)

• Contaminant Transport in Subsurface Environments: Analysis of Multi-Rate Diffussive Transport
• Field-Scale Tracer Testing: Determination of Controlling Transport Processes in Fractured and Heterogeneous Subsurface Elements
• Vadose Zone Field Infiltration Testing

Numerical Simulation (WWW)

• Analysis of Long-Term, Regional-Scale Groundwater Flow
• Contaminant Transport in Subsurface Environments: Analysis of Multi-Rate Diffusive Transport
• Geostatistical Modeling of Spatially Heterogeneous Material Properties
• Numerical Simulator for Nonisothermal Multiphase Subsurface Flow on Massively Parallel Architectures
• Smart Sampling

• Atomistic and Molecular Simulations in Geochemistry and Materials Science
• Lattice Boltzmann Calculations of Flow, Dispersion and Reaction
• Low Temperature Fluid-Mineral Interactions
• Sandia Natural Attenuation Project
• Soil-Actinide-Metal Interactions Analysis and Modeling Laboratory

• Characterization of Brittle Materials Under Multiaxial Loading
• Discrete Element Modeling
• Explosive Structure Interaction
• Material Behavior Under Impulsive Loading
• Mechanics of Powder Compaction for Ceramic Manufacturing
• Microscale Characterization and Modeling of Porous Media
• Near Wellbore Mechanics
• Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Behavior During Primary and Secondary Recovery
• Rock Blasting Computer Simulations
• Shear Strain Localization and Fracture Evolution in Rocks

• 3-D Electromagnetic Imaging
• Crosswell Seismic Imaging
• Geosynthetic Membrane Monitoring System
  See also:
  
  • Environmental Restoration Technology - GMMS
• Hybrid Hydrological-Geophysical Inverse Technique for Assessment and Monitoring in the Vadose Zone
• Magnetostrictive Borehole Seismic Source
• Subsurface Gas Flow Probe
• Subsurface Imaging Using Crossborehole Electromagnetics
  See also:
  • Environmental Restoration Technology - Cross Borehole Electromagnetic Imaging
• In Situ, Three-Dimensional Flow Velocity Measurement

Geothermal Research (WWW)

• Sonic Drilling Technology (WWW)

Underground Storage Technology

• Underground Storage Technology Factsheet

Characterization

• Advanced In Situ Moisture Logging
• Cross Borehole Electromagnetic Imaging
• Subsurface Imaging Using Crossborehole Electromagnetics
• Development of Hybrid Cost-Effective Directional Drilling Equipment
• Environmental-Measurement-While-Drilling System for Real-Time Screening of Contaminants
• Fiber Optic Relative Humidity and TDR Sensors for the Cone Penetrometer
• Flow Probe™ Chemical Analyzer
• Landfill Assessment and Monitoring System
• Magnetometer Towed Array
• SEAMIST™ Instrumentation/Sampling System
• Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS)
  See also:
  • Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS)
  • Risk-Based Decision Making-A Framework and Automation Tool for Guiding Site Characterization (WWW)
  • SEDSS web site (WWW)
  • Nuclear Waste Management Program - SEDSS (WWW)
• Smart Sampling

Monitoring

• Barrier Verification and Monitoring System
• Barrier Verification and Monitoring for the International Partnership for the Evaluation of High-Pressure Jetting
• Development of Hybrid Cost-Effective Directional Drilling Equipment
• Geosyntheic Membrane Monitoring System
• Geosynthetic Membrane Monitoring System
• Vadose Zone Monitoring System

Containment

• Alternative Landfill Cover Demonstration
• Demonstrate Capillary Barrier Landfill Cover Concepts
• Subsurface Barrier Systems
• Dry Barrier Applications for Landfills

Remediation

• Electrokinetic Remediation of Metals
• In Situ Gaseous Reduction of Chromium System
• In Situ Reactive Barrier Systems
• Thermal Enhanced Vapor Extraction System

Synergistic

• Mixed Waste Landfill Accelerated Site Technology Deployment
• Environmental Fate and Transport of Chemical Signatures Through Soil Impacts Chemical Detector Survey Success
• Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS)
  See also:
  • Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS)
  • Risk-Based Decision Making-A Framework and Automation Tool for Guiding Site Characterization (WWW)
  • SEDSS web site (WWW)
  • Nuclear Waste Management Program - SEDSS (WWW)
• Technology Management System (TMS)

Environmental Monitoring and Characterization

• Innovative Treatment Remediation Demonstration Program (WWW)
• Environmental Technology Verification Program (WWW)

• Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS): A Methodology and Tool for Risk Assessment, Site Characterization, and Comparing Remedial Alternatives for Environmental Restoration
• Risk-Based Decision Making--A Framework and Automation Tool for Guiding Site Characterization (WWW)
  see also:
  • Environmental Restoration Technology - SEDSS
    
  • SEDSS web site (WWW)
  • Nuclear Waste Management Program - SEDSS (WWW)

WIPP Chemical and Disposal Room Processes

• Colloid Chemistry and Transport Laboratory
• LEHGC, a Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Model of Hydro-Geochemical Transport
• Sandia Tomography and Radionuclide Transport Laboratory
• Nuclear Waste Management Program - Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS) (WWW)
  see also:
  • Environmental Restoration Technology - SEDSS
  • Environmental Risk and Decision Analysis - SEDSS
  • SEDSS web site (WWW)
  • Risk-Based Decision Making--A Framework and Automation Tool for Guiding Site Characterization (WWW)
• PRDA

Environmental Technology Projects - Sandia California

• Imaging Soil Contaminants (WWW)
• Waste Disposal (WWW)

Robotics Technology Development Program

Technical Task Areas

• Tank Waste Retrieval
• Contaminant Analysis Automation
• Mixed Waste Operations
• Decontamination and Dismantlement Control
• Cross Cutting & Advanced Technology
• Landfill Operations

Program Elements

• Robotic Controls
• Robotic Sensing Systems
• Robotic System Analysis
• Robotic System Simulation
• Co-operating Robotic Multi-Arm Manipulation
• University Robotic Research and Development

Related Areas

• Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)
• Intelligent Micromachine Initiative (MEMS)
• Intelligent Systems & Robotics Center (ISRC)
• Computation, Computers, and Math Center-High Performance Computing