Research Programs Summary

Transportation Technology

Technology to improve efficiency and reduce emissions from vehicular systems including automobiles, trucks, buses and locomotives…

Distributed Energy Systems

Technology to improve efficiency and reduce emissions from stationary power sources…

Process Engineering and Analysis

Transitional and transformational industrial technology to improve resource efficiency, profitability, and competitiveness in a global economy…

• Materials Recycling ---new processes to recover materials and resources from industrial and post-consumer scrap
• Industrial Metals and Materials ---nanomaterials for industrial applications, atomic layer deposition transformational primary metal production and fabrication technology 
• Chemical and Biological Processes ---advanced chemical synthesis and separation technologies, electrodeionization, electrodialysis, separative bioreactors
• Hydrogen and Greenhouse Gases ---thermo chemical nuclear hydrogen, coal conversion technologies, plasma separation, carbon-dioxide capture
• Process Simulation and Modeling ---thermodynamic and process cost modeling using commercial codes and proprietary computational fluid dynamic models

Environmental and Security Science and Technology

Advanced technologies for detection of chemical and biological species of interest for environmental protection, national security and disease detection...