Energy and energetics
The PARI Energy and Energetics Lab (PEEL) seeks innovative, safe, sustainable solutions for critical national security needs. PEEL leverages partnerships with government, industry, academia, and labs to bridge gaps between applied research and production. Through an interconnected lab infrastructure, PEEL provides piloting, analysis, testing, and assessment of new capabilities in energy, energetics, non-kinetic effects, and unmanned systems.
How PEEL Advances National Security
PEEL experts design solutions in additive manufacturing of energetics, novel energetic materials, novel processing and continuous processing, energetic batteries, new battery chemistry, business information context prototyping, advanced material science, and atomistic modeling and simulation. PEEL supports the development of advanced energetic materials—the broad category of explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics. Research on these materials and the systems that incorporate them meets a critical national need that ensures the safety of U.S. citizens, both at home and on the battlefield.
Strength through Capabilities
Energetics:
Pilot-scale producing and testing of energetic materials. Integration and application of technology.
Energy:
Safer battery designs. Battery management systems. Energetic battery designs. Modeling and simulation. Data analytics. Energy resiliency for military bases and operational requirements. Cyber resistant power systems.
Unmanned Systems
Payload testing. Low SWAP solutions. Mission engineering. AI for man/machine interfaces and swarm capabilities.
Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations
Modeling and simulation. Mission engineering. Radio frequency, electrooptical/infrared, directed energy and communications. Advanced material solutions for electromagnetic spectrum operations unique solutions. Offensive and defensive cybersecurity. Photonics and microelectronics solutions for enhanced processing and edge computing. Unique microelectronics packaging solutions for state-of-the-art sensor applications.
Strength through Teamwork
PEEL partners with the Purdue Energetics Research Center, the country’s premier developer of new explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics to support the departments of War and Energy.
PEEL Provides state-of-the-art energy solutions for military bases, forward operating bases, platforms, and weapons systems, powering forces with unmatched energy capabilities to protect the nation and its allies.
PEEL Solves supply-chain concerns for the nation’s critical chemicals to furnish forces with needed materials to be a dominant force for good.
PEEL Seeks solutions to accelerate the transition of electromagnetic spectrum solutions from the lab to integrated payloads for weapon systems delivering operational relevant capabilities. This is accomplished through rapid prototyping, synchronized hardware-in-the-loop simulation and repeatable test and evaluation of radio frequency, electro-optical/infrared and software defined systems.
Strength through collaboration
PEEL partners closely with Purdue University faculty and experts and leverages labs and infrastructure from across the Purdue University ecosystem, including:
· Purdue Energetics Research Center.
· Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories.
· Purdue UAS Research and Test Facility.
· The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.
· The Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility.
· The Vilas Pol Energy Research Group Battery Lab.
· The Birck Nanotechnology Center.
· The PARI Microelectronics Lab.
Facilities/Capabilities
PEEL works in new laboratories and facilities in renovated and accredited spaces for classified U.S. government work.
Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories
Seven buildings and 22 labs with a rich, 65-year history of applied engineering research in energetics, rocket propulsion, combustion, and turbomachinery. Zucrow primarily supports formulation, additive manufacturing, combustion, and diagnostics research.
Birck Nanotechnology Center
An interdisciplinary research center that provides infrastructure for more than 150 faculty members and their research groups. The research center includes the Dynamic Analysis of Micro-and Nanosystems Laboratory, a world-class facility focused on sensor development and small-scale materials characterization.
FLEX Lab
Designed to adapt to the creative and innovative needs of engineering researchers. Its wet lab, dry lab and open spaces enable teams to collaborate on interdisciplinary research and discovery. FLEX Lab primarily supports synthesis, formulation and chemical analysis research.
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