Minority Universities Selected for Energy Research Grants Projects
Posted on: Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 03:01 CDT
The Dept. of Energy has awarded grants to several institutions for energy research through the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU) program. Carried out under DOE's Office of Fossil Energy, the program gives minority students valuable hands-on experience in developing technologies to promote the efficient and environmentally safe use of coal, oil and natural gas. The universities selected by the DOE include:
* Hampton University, VAResearchers will use a novel absorption process called "phase transitional absorption" to capture carbon dioxide from flue gas. DOE grant: $200,000. Project duration: 36 months.
* West Virginia State University R&D Corp. - Scientists will create a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight into a useful fuel, such as methane or methanol. DOE grant: $199,053. Project duration: 36 months.
* University of Texas at El Paso - Researchers from the university and Argonne National Laboratory will explore super-high- temperature (in excess of 1,000C) alloys and composites from niobium- tungsten-chromium systems. DOE grant: $200,000. Project duration: 36 months.
The university also received a second grant in which researchers will study the flame dynamics of syngas for the production of fundamental combustion data to aid the design of fuel-flexible and low-emission gas turbine combustors. DOE share: $20,000. Project duration: 12 months.
* Colorado State University at Pueblo - Researchers will explore the viability of combining fly-ash and woody biomass waste into a fuel briquette for testing in a laboratory setting and in a coal- fired power plant. The project is also a study of the technical reguirements and economic feasibility of establishing a flyash/ sawdust briquette manufacturing facility. DOE grant: $73,963. Project duration: 12 months.
* North Carolina A&T State University - Scientists will develop a composite membrane based on palladium and palladium-silver alloy for hydrogen separation. The researchers will use steam reforming of methanol by eguilibrium shift to demonstrate the membrane as a membrane-reactor-separator. DOE grant: $199,996. Project duration: 36 months.
* University of Houston Researchers will use spectroscopy, remote sensing data, and geochemistry data to identify and map chemical and mineralogical alterations in rocks and soils caused by long-term hydrocarbon microseepages in the Patrick Draw area of southwest Wyoming. The information will be used to develop a new methodology for remotely mapping alteration zones produced by hydrocarbon microseepages. DOE grant: $19,995. Project duration: 12 months.
* California State University, Los Angeles - Scientists will develop catalysts that will promote important carbon-carbon bond formation reactions under mild conditions using small molecules that can be derived from coal. DOE grant: $20,000. Project duration: 12 months.
Copyright American Institute of Chemical Engineers Aug 2005
Source: Chemical Engineering Progress
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