WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Air Force Research Laboratory will dedicate the Advanced Power and Thermal Research Lab (APTRL) with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday.
Research already is underway in the new facility, and when the lab is fully operational, efforts will focus on thermal management, mechanical energy conversion, power distribution, power electronic development, and electrochemistry research.
The 53,000-square-foot, three-story, multi-laboratory facility is devoted to fundamental and applied energy, power, and thermal research. This building includes areas for materials processing, data acquisition, clean and dry rooms, and fabrication facilities. It also contains explosion-proof research chambers for advanced battery research, and Radio Frequency shielded labs for research in electro-magnetic interference.
APTRL is a complete refurbishment of the former Static Test Laboratory structure, which since 1934 had hosted a vast array of structural and mechanical testing, but had gone largely unused as a laboratory environment for many years. The existing facility was internally demolished and totally redesigned and rebuilt with an all-new modern infrastructure designed to meet laboratory requirements for decades to come.
Research already is underway in the new facility, and when the lab is fully operational, efforts will focus on thermal management, mechanical energy conversion, power distribution, power electronic development, and electrochemistry research.
The 53,000-square-foot, three-story, multi-laboratory facility is devoted to fundamental and applied energy, power, and thermal research. This building includes areas for materials processing, data acquisition, clean and dry rooms, and fabrication facilities. It also contains explosion-proof research chambers for advanced battery research, and Radio Frequency shielded labs for research in electro-magnetic interference.
APTRL is a complete refurbishment of the former Static Test Laboratory structure, which since 1934 had hosted a vast array of structural and mechanical testing, but had gone largely unused as a laboratory environment for many years. The existing facility was internally demolished and totally redesigned and rebuilt with an all-new modern infrastructure designed to meet laboratory requirements for decades to come.
