Awards
The Division has received numerous awards recognizing excellence in research including many R&D 100 awards, four Discover awards, two Energy 100 awards, and six Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer, among others.
Each year, R&D Magazine recognizes the 100 most technologically significant new products of the last year with awards. The competition has two purposes: to recognize innovators and organizations for outstanding practical technical developments, and to identify industrially significant technological advances.
2006
Multiport Dryer Technology for the Forest Products Industry
Separative Bioreactor for the Production and Recovery of Biobased Products
2005
High-Temperature Potentiometric Oxygen Sensor with Internal Reference
2004
Grancrete™ Spray-On Structural Cement and Rapid Construction Process for Low-Cost Housing (video) 
Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) V5.2
Glass Furnace Model (GFM)
Hydrogen Transport Membrane (HTM) for Separation of Pure Hydrogen at High Temperatures
2003
Nanostructured Carbide Derived Carbon (CDC)
2002
Smart Sensor Developer Kit
Advanced Electrodeionization Technology for Product Desalting
2000
Process to Recycle Post-Consumer Flexible Polyurethane Foam
1999
Argonne Clean Diesel Technology
Binder Enhanced Densified Refuse-Derived Fuel Pellets
1998
Near-Frictionless Carbon Films
1997
Production of Chemicals from Biologically Derived Succinic Acid
1996
CERAMICRETE Phosphate-Bonded Cement
1995
CEMROX-Ceramic Membrane Reactor for Oxidation of Natural Gas
1993
An Efficient New Process for Commercial Production of Phase-Pure Superconductors
1991
Boric Acid Lubricant
1977
Non-imaging Solar Collector
1976
Dielectric Compound Parabolic Concentrator
Discover Magazine awards are presented annually to the best technologies developed by U.S. corporate, academic, and government research centers.
2001 Finalist, Transportation: Using “X-ray Vision” to Study Fuel Spray Processes Inside Engines
By using high-brilliance X-rays from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source, researchers are able to obtain never-before-possible, time-resolved and quantitative information on the structure of gasoline and diesel fuel sprays at the very moment they enter the engine cylinder. Prior to the new “X-ray vision” technique, the portion of fuel sprays nearest the injector nozzle (the first one inch) had been too opaque for visible light to penetrate, leaving engine designers and manufacturers to guess at conditions inside the fuel spray. With such an innovation, we have paved the way to see directly inside an engine to study the complete range of fluid dynamics and chemistry of fuel sprays and fuel spray processes. Argonne's research was funded by the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Transportation Technologies, Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies.
2000 Finalist: Process for Recovering Usable Plastics from Mixed Plastic Waste
Argonne researchers have developed and patented a process, called "froth flotation," that separates individual, high-purity plastics from waste streams containing a mixture of plastics. The technology has been used to separate such plastics as acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), high-impact polystyrene (HIPS), and polypropylene (PP) from other plastics – without using hazardous chemicals – during scrap shredding and metal recovery operations. So far, the technology has proven successful in recovering selected plastics from obsolete appliances, auto shredder residue, disassembled car parts, industrial scrap plastics, and consumer electronics – and its potential for separating plastics is extensive. The recovered polymers are compatible with virgin materials and can be used for such products as computers, office equipment, auto parts, telephones, and home appliances. (More...)
1999 Finalist: Near-Frictionless Carbon Coating Is Slick Stuff
Argonne's near-frictionless carbon (NFC) film coating has a coefficient of friction of less than 0.001 when measured in a dry nitrogen atmosphere--20 times lower than the previous record holder, molybdenum disulfide. (Under the same conditions, Teflon's coefficient of friction is around 0.04.) While the most promising applications appear to be those that operate in essentially air-free environments, such as bearings for ultrahigh vacuum instruments, certain mechanical seals, and selected cryogenic, space, and aircraft applications, the material's properties in air and on lubricated surfaces also are impressive. This new material may find applications in automobile and engine parts such as turbocharger rotors, piston rings, gears and bearings, air-conditioning compressors, and fuel injector components, including possible applications in electronic and microelectromechanical systems. In addition, this technology has won a 1998 R&D 100 Award.
1998 Winner: Ethyl Lactate Solvents Are Low-Cost and Environmentally Friendly
Millions of pounds of toxic industrial solvents could be replaced by environmentally friendly solvents made with ethyl lactate, thanks to a new cost-cutting manufacturing process developed by researchers from Argonne's Energy Systems Division. In addition to the 1999 Discover Magazine Award, this innovative technology also won a 1998 Presidential Challenge Green Chemistry Award. (More...)
In its Energy 100 Awards, the Department of Energy (DOE) has honored 100 of its best scientific and technological accomplishments developed between 1977 and 2000. From among those 100 technologies, 23 were selected for their top-flight contribution to American consumers. The highest-ranked innovations demonstrated benefits to the American public, a contribution to U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace and the potential for significant future growth. From those 23 "Energy @ 23" awards, the Bright Light award was given to five of the most recent consumer-oriented innovations, developed between 1999 and 2000.
Four Argonne National Laboratory innovations were on DOE's Energy 100 list; two of these were from the Energy Systems Division
"Green" Solvents
Process to Recover and Clean Flexible Polyurethane Foam from Automobile Shredder Residue
Two of those innovations--the "green" solvents and the 308 nm excimer laser-- were selected for top honors as Energy @ 23 technologies; the green solvents also were selected as a Bright Light winner.
Argonne 's green solvents also have been recognized by Discover Magazine as a top innovation, and its developers were awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, both in 1998. The Process to Recover and Clean Flexible Polyurethane Foam from Auto Shredder Residue won a 2000 R&D 100 Award.
2007
Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) provides the modeling and simulation capabilities for automotive designers to quickly examine the multitudes of possible configurations and understand the impacts on vehicle performance and fuel economy
2004
Improved Electrodialysis Operation with Buffer Solution
2000
Ceramicrete Phospate-Bonded Cement
1999
Ethyl Lactate Environmentally Friendly Solvent
1997
Laser Weld Monitor
1995
CEMROX -- Ceramic Membrane Reactor for Oxidation of Natural Gas
2007
Society of Plastic Engineers Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC), Environmental Award for "Enabling Technologies in Processes & Procedures: ELV Recycling Technology"
2005
Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation, Effects of Exhaust System Components on Diesel Particulate Morphology for a Light-Duty Diesel Engine, SAE document number 2005-01-0184, Keong Lee.
Society of Automotive Engineers Barry D. McNutt Award for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis, Steve Plotkin.
DOE Hydrogen Program Award for Excellence in R&D, Michael Wang and Mariannne Mintz.
Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation, “Impingement Identification in a High Speed Diesel Engine using Piston Surface Temperature Measurements”, S. Miers.
2004
2004 Challenge Bibendum , Justin Kern, Mike Duoba, Bob Larsen, Ted Bohn, Steve Gurski, Kristin De La Rosa.
DOE Outstanding Mentor Award for 2004 from the DOE Office of Science, Greg Krumdick.
DOE Outstanding Mentor Award for 2004 from the DOE Office of Science, Cristina Negri.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Internal Combustion Engine Division, Best Presented Paper at the Spring Technical Conference in Kyoto, Japan -- “Comparison of X-Ray Based Fuel Spray Measurements with Computer Simulation using the CAB Model”, Steve Ciatti.
Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation, "X-Ray Absorption Measurements of Diesel Sprays and the Effects of Nozzle Geometry", C. Powell.
2003
Howard Taylor Award, presented by the American Foundry Society Division Council in recognition of the paper having the greatest long-range technical significance in the field of cast metals technology, for the paper "Developments in Lost Foam Casting of Magnesium" presented at the 107th Casting Congress, John Hryn.
Inventor of the Year Award, The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago; B.J. Jody, E.J. Daniels, J. Libera.
2002
Arch T. Colwell Merit Award for SAE Paper No. 2002-01-1967, A Process to Recover Carbon Fibers from Polymer Matrix Composites; B.J. Jody, E.J. Daniels, J.A. Pomykala, Jr.
National Laboratory Combustion and Emissions Control R&D Award, J. Wang, C. Powell, Y. Yue, S. Ciatti.
ANL 2002 Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention Spirit Award, A. Singletary.
2001
Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation, “X-Ray Measurement of High Pressure Diesel Sprays", C. Powell.
Outstanding Presentation "Reduction and Removal of Mercury from Water Using Arsine Modified TiO2" -- SP-1 First International Conference on Semiconductor Photochemistry, L. Skubal.
2000
Society of Automotive Engineers Arch T. Colwell Award for SAE Paper No. 1999-01-0322, “Total Fuel Cycle Impacts of Advanced Vehicles”, F. Stoldolsky, L. Gaines, C. Marshall, F. An, J. Eberhardt.
1996
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Ernest E. Thiele Award, R. Datta.
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