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CBME faculty are involved in many aspects of energy
and chemicals research from production to processing
to consumer use. Some faculty are also participants
in the Institute for Gas Utilization Technologies
and the Poromechanics Institute located at the University.
Current research projects include:
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solid catalyzed and electric discharge catalyzed
methane conversion to oxygenates, higher hydrocarbons,
or olefins
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heterogeneous catalysis for the aromatization
of paraffins and the nitration of aromatics
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single wall carbon nanotube - based fuel cell electrodes
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prediction of
thermodynamic properties of working fluids
for sorptive refrigeration
systems and for
natural gas sweetening
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high density
bulk or adsorptive storage of natural gas
- surfactants for cold detergency
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heat integration across plants
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improvement of
plant energy efficiency through heat exchanger
retrofit
and simultaneous process optimization
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hydrogen production
from photocatalytic water splitting
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upgrade
of raw natural gas by solvent-extraction
of
diluents
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phase
behavior of inclusion
gas in
porous media
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non-Darcy flow through
porous
media
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well modeling
for
reservoir simulation
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control
of turbulence
production-dissipation
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turbulent
reactive flow
Research equipment
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catalytic reactor systems
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electric field reactor
- x-ray photoelection spectrometer
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adsorptive storage apparatus
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BET adsorption
instrument
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Berty gradientless reactor
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IBM Risc 6000 workstations
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photocatalytic reactor
system
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Analytical equipment:
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gas chromatographs
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quadrupole mass spectrometers
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FTIR with accessories
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liquid and gel permeation
chromatographs
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atomic absorption spectrometer
Campus facilities
Off-campus facilities
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HP Convex Exemplar X-series,
4-node, 64-processor supercomputer at the National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications
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SGI Origin2000 1024-processor
supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
- IBM pSeries 690, 368 processor supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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