Many CSTL activities impact the energy industry sector, including reference data and models, fuel SRMs, metering standards, and flow calibrations. NIST's accurate and reliable flow standards and databases are critical to this industry both for proc­ess optimization and for use in custody transfer applications. CSTL also provides standards that allow this industry to verify compliance with environmental regulations. The Environmental Technologies industry sector, part of an estimated global market of $530 billion, depends on NIST/CSTL for world-recognized artifact standards as well as reference data and models to demonstrate compliance with environmental regulations, and for reliable decision-making for environmental remediation, waste disposal, emissions trading, and other applications.

Projects in this Area:

       FY 2006

• Pipeline-Scale Flow Measurement Standards for Natural Gas
• Optimizing the Measurement of Light-Absorbing (Black) Carbon in Atmospheric Aerosols that Impact Regional Climate
• Advanced Distillation curves for Characterizing Complex Liquid Fuels
• Advances in Liquid Fuel Research: Properties of Real Fuels for Aviation, Aerospace and Vehicular Transportation
• Propane as a Thermodynamic Reference Fluid
• NIST Property Models and Data Support the Transition to Hydrogen as a Transportation Fuel
• Application of Specimen Bank Resources to Investigate Tributyltin in the Alaskan Arctic Marine Ecosystem
• NIST Assists NOAA with Bottlenose Dolphin Health Assessments
• An Estimation of Illicit Drugs from Chemical Measurements in Municipal Wastewater
• Development of a New Multi-Nutrient Fertilizer Standard Reference Material
• Standards Development and Measurements to Support Global Climate Change Studies
• Standard Reference Materials for Hexavalent Chromium in Contaminated Soil
• NIST’s New Standard Reference Material for Organic Contaminants in House Dust
• Environmental Specimen Bank Activities
• Method Development for the Simultaneous Quantification of Mercury and Tin Species in Sediment and Tissue SRMs
• Method Development and Measurements of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Tissue, Serum, and Sediment SRMs
• SRMs for Contaminants on Air Particulate Matter
• SRMs for Organic Contaminants in Human Serum and Milk
• Improving Measurements with NIST’s Ozone Reference Standard
• Fossil Fuel SRMs Certified for Sulfur, Mercury, and Chlorine
• Simultaneous Determination of Sulfur Isotopic Composition and Concentration in Two High-Elevation Snowpits Using a 33S/36S Double Spike Technique
• Establishing Measurement Traceability for Gaseous Mercury Emissions Monitoring

       FY 2005

• Marine Environmental Specimen Bank Activities
• Metrology for Marine Gene Expression – Environmental Biosensors
• Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for Contaminants in Marine Tissue and Sediment
• Characterizing Natural Organic Material from the Occoquan Watershed (Northern Virginia, US) using Fluorescence Spectroscopy and PARAFAC
• Radio-Frequency Resonator as a Primary Hygrometer
• Flow Standards for Natural Gas
• New Low Sulfur in Diesel Fuel SRMs
• Interlaboratory Comparison Exercises for Organic Contaminants and Trace Elements in Marine Sediments and Tissues
• NIST Aids NOAA with Bottlenose Dolphin Health Assessments
• Simultaneous Determination of Sulfur Isotopic Composition and Concentration in Two High-Elevation Snowpits Using a 33S/36S Double Spike Technique
• Cell Cryopreservation – Quantitative Cell Biology
• Establishing Measurement Traceability for Gaseous Mercury Emissions Monitoring
• Improving Measurements with NIST’s Ozone Reference Standard
• Method Development and Measurements of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Tissue, Serum, and Sediment SRMs
• Absorption Coefficient Measurements of Carbonaceous-Based Aerosol Particles
• Standards Development and Measurements to Support Global Climate Change Studies
• SRMs for Contaminants on Air Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 µm (PM2.5)
• SRMs for Organic Contaminants in Human Serum
• New SRM for Organic Contaminants in House Dust
• Combustion Simulation Databases for Real Transportation Fuels
• Development of a New Multi-Nutrient Fertilizer Standard Reference Material
• Reference Libraries of Mass Spectra for Health and Environmental Science
• Traceable Calibrations Gases: SRMs, NTRMs, and Protocol Gases