Energy and Environment
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Increased energy usage has caused serious environmental problems which frequently impact a much wider geographic area than the source. The energy and the environment group of faculty have pooled their knowledge and experience to help find long term solutions to the problems caused by increased energy usage. We have multipronged efforts to: 1) reduce the energy usage by developing more efficient means of converting chemical energy into electrical energy such as fuel cells and fuel processors; 2) Clean up exhaust emissions of plants and engines as well as destroy toxic pollutants by environmentally acceptable methods, 3) develop more environmentally acceptable and sustainable methods of synthesis ,4) invent more energy efficient gas separation/purification and storage, and 5) fabricate micromachined power sources to replace batteries. As a result of the common focus we have pooled our efforts to develop a 10kW fuel processor for DOE over the next four years and advance the state of fuel processor catalysts and reactors in the process. The group collaborates extensively with other engineering faculty to further research in energy and environment
H. Scott Fogler - Flow and Reactions
Catalyzed dissolution, gellation kinetics, fused chemical reactions, oil pipeline deep sea plugging and remediation
Erdogan Gulari - Reactions at Interfaces
Catalysts for fuel cells, catalysts for clean air, biochips, thin films
Suljo Linic - Reactions at Interfaces
Surface chemistry and first principles design of catalyst
Charles W. Monroe - Electrochemical Systems Modeling
Modeling of batteries, fuel cells, and other electrochemical systems; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; coupled and multicomponent transport theory
Phillip E. Savage - Sustainable Production of Energy and Chemical Products
Green Chemistry & Chemical Reaction Engineering
Johannes W. Schwank - Catalysts, Fuel Cells, and Fuel Conversion
Heterogeneous catalysis, thin films, and chemical sensors, fuel cells
Levi T. Thompson - Catalysts, Reactors, and Fuel Cells
Nitride/carbide catalysts, fuel processing, micro-fuel cells and micro-reactors
Angela Violi - Multiscale Computational Nanoscience
Coarse-graining methods; molecular dynamics, assembly of nanoparticles, environment
Walter J. Weber, Jr.
Environmental Process Dynamics & System Sustainability
Ralph T. Yang
Hydrogen storage, nanostructured adsorbents, separations, adsorption, catalysis, catalytic NO reduction, fuel desulfurization for fuel cells, carbon.
