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Using Biodiesel as a Lubricity Additive for Petroleum Diesel Fuel
(2009-04)
Professor Schumacher discussed aspects of lubricity in fuels, including a project to determine the concentration of biodiesel that will raise the lubricity of the new low sulfur diesel fuel.
Kansas City Plug-In Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project
(2009-04)
Kansas City's existing airport shuttle service and fleet operations will be used as a platform to demonstrate viability of PEV technologies in a controlled, real-world environment. The project will also evaluate the pathway ...
Biofuel policies and markets in an uncertain world
(2009-04)
Seth Meyer discussed biofuel policies and markets in the current economic and political climate.
Small Hydropower Potential in Missouri
(2009-04)
The overall objective of this research is to advance our understanding of how, and to what
degree, small hydropower development can aid in the fight against global warming. The leading
cause of climate change today is ...
Towards a carbon-neutral future: Scenario-based assessment of climate-induced risks to regional energy production and trends in the Kansas City area
(2009-04)
Climate change and weather-related events contain elements of both risk and uncertainty. Risk is often defined as more short-term in nature, more measurable, and predictable. Uncertainty, on the other hand, arises from ...
Preformed Particle Gels for Conformance Control
(2009-04)
Crude oil is found in underground porous sandstone or carbonate rock formation. After primary (natural energy) and secondary recovery (water flooding) have been exhausted, about 2/3rds of the original-oil-in-place is left ...
High Speed Production of Large Coal to Facilitate Easier and More Effective Cleaning
(2009-04)
Most modern mining equipment extracts coal through grinding it from the solid using a set of rotating picks. This produces coal that is quite small in average size and generates a lot of dust in the process. The coal is ...
Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Cost-Effective Refrigerated Storage Facilities
(2009-04)
A green, sustainable, energy efficient, cost-effective refrigerated storage facility is defined as a structure that maintains a safe and appropriate environment for the storage of perishable food items while limiting its ...
Hydrogen Generation via Novel Supercritical Water Reformation Technology
(2009-04)
A novel, robust, fuel reformation technology has been developed for portable, mobile, stationary, and on-site generation of hydrogen from a variety of feedstocks involving both renewable and nonrenewable resources. Unlike ...
Algae Photobioreactor Design Considerations for Commercial Scale Production
(2009-04)
Recent growth in the biofuels industry (ethanol and biodiesel) has put market
pressures on agricultural feedstock supplies, primarily corn and soybeans. In order for the biofuels industry to sustain and continue to grow, ...
Future Renewable Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems
(2009-04)
The mission of the FREEDM engineering research center is to develop the fundamental and
enabling technology to demonstrate the FREEDM system and through such development and
demonstration, foster a revolution in innovation ...
Missouri S&T Hydrogen Fuel Cell EcoCAR
(2009-04)
Today, the automotive industry is at a crossroads during the worst economic downturn in 75
years. Particularly frustrating is that this crisis struck just at a time when these companies were
successfully restructuring ...
Using a PV system to power an emergency water disinfection system
(2009-04)
Emergency relief efforts commonly include the provision of safe drinking water to populationswhose normal water supplies have been disrupted. An alternative to the shipment of bottledwater to the impacted areas is the ...
Genomic strategies for soybean oil improvement and biodiesel production
(2009-04)
Soybean oil, a promising renewable energy resource, comprises 73% of biodiesel in addition to other industrial applications. Missouri is the fifth largest state in the US for soybean plantation. With the target to produce ...
Photovoltaic and Betavoltaic Efforts at University of Missouri-Columbia
(2009)
Photovoltaic device converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Efficiency of a photovoltaic device depends on the active material which absorbs light as well as the window layer which transmits light ...
The University of Missouri Center for Sustainable Energy
(2009-04)
The University of Missouri Center for Sustainable Energy was formed as a collaboration between the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering. Over 70 faculty members, from a wide ...
Emissions from Alternate Aviation Fuels and their Environmental Impact
(2009-04)
The anticipated growth in commercial air traffic, rising fuel costs, and an increasing
desire to reduce reliance on fossil fuels produced in politically unstable regions, has
driven research into alternate renewable ...
Next Generation Neutron Detection for Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
(2009-04)
As the demand for nuclear energy increases worldwide, and MO reactors come online, so does
the availability of spent fuel that may be used as a medium of terror. That is, fuel for and waste
or byproducts from fissile ...
A Research Program on Very High Temperature Reactors
(2009-04)
Prismatic and pebble bed very high-temperature reactors (VHTRs) are very attractive both from a thermodynamic efficiency viewpoint and hydrogen-production capability. This project addresses numerous challenges associated ...
A Research Program Nuclear Energy Conversion
(2009-04)
Direct conversion of nuclear energy to electricity has been a challenging problem since the
inception of the generation of electricity from nuclear reactions. The development of wide bandgap,
p-n junctions in materials ...