Oak Ridge Lab Plans to Build Tenn. Facility to Study Emissions

img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>The Oak Ridge National Laboratory said it was building a truck pollution research lab along Interstate 40 in Tennessee to study real world diesel emissions.

“We know what diesel engine emissions are like in the lab, but we don’t really know about what’s happening when the engines are on the road,” Katey Lenox of ORNL’s engineering science and technology division said in a Dec. 20 interview with Transport Topics. “There hasn’t been anything like this out there.”

The laboratory will be built along a 2.5-mile stretch of I-40 near Knoxville that ORNL said was one of the heaviest truck routes in the country, with more than 25,000 big rigs passing through on an average day.