Graduate Program in Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering
Research
The range of faculty research interests are broad, representing both Energy and the Environment. The program maintains excellent research facilities, both within the department and through the EMS Energy Institute.
Energy...
- Air Emissions from Fossil Fuel Utilization Systems
- Alternative and Reformulated Fuels
- Applied Catalysis
- Carbon Materials from Petroleum and Coal
- Carbon Deposition on Metal Surfaces
- Catalytic Oxidation of Solid Carbons
- Characterization of Solid Carbons
- Chemical Problems in Conversions of Fuels into Higher-Value Products
- Combustion-Generated Air Pollutants
- Control of Emissions from Combustion Sources
- Conversion of Waste Material to Fuels and Chemicals
- Corrosion of Metals and Alloys in Hydrothermal Environments
- Diesel and Jet Fuel Formulation
- Diesel Combustion and Engine Emissions
- Desirable and Undesirable Solid Carbons
- Electrochemical Kinetics and Thermal Diffusion Transport
- Exhaust After treatment and Reactor Modeling
- Flame Studies and Flame-Materials Interactions
- Fuel Processing and Chemicals Synthesis
- Microscopy and Image Analysis of Cokes and Carbons
- Molecular Modeling
- Power Generation Systems, Fuel Cells, and Batteries
- Preparation of Activated Carbons
- Recovery and Utilization of Industrial Waste Streams
- Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology
- Surface Properties and Behavior of Carbon Materials
...and the Environment
- Aqueous processing, electrochemistry
- Atmospheric turbulence, environmental meteorology
- Carbon materials, hydrocarbon processing
- Carbon physics and electrochemistry
- Catalysis, fuel processing and chemical synthesis
- Combustion emission, coal and biomass
- Combustion, trace metals and particulate emissions
- Drilling engineering, enhanced oil recovery
- Electrochemistry, fuel cells
- Environmental geophysics
- Exploration geophysics
- Geomechanics, transport properties
- Groundwater geology, contaminant hydrology
- Hydrocarbon chemistry, alternative fuels, carbon products
- Inorganic and carbonate geochemistry
- Inorganic chemistry, biogeochemistry
- Interfacial and colloid chemistry
- Mesoscale weather, environmental meteorology
- Mineral and environmental solid separations
- Multiphase hydrodynamics, pipeline engineering
- Multiphase flows, transport properties, imaging
- Multiphase reactors, environmental separations
- Oil and gas geology, petroleum geosystems
- Organic chemistry, biogeochemistry
- Petroleum geomechancis, completions, imaging
- Porous media flows, reservoir engineering
- Powder mechanics, particulate processing
- Reformulated fuels and emissions
- Solid separations and comminution
Facilities
Students have access to the excellent experimental and computational laboratories of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, including state-of-the-art analytical facilities at the EMS Energy Institute and the Materials Research Institute.
All students have access to a networked system of thin-wire-served PCs, to a Unix Laboratory of networked SparcStations, and to a variety of computing facilities on campus. All graduate students have the option of having a PC on their desk.