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Research Projects at Michigan Universities (partial list):

Alternative Energy & Power Generation Technology


  • Hydrogen interaction with metals
  • Low-cost fuel processors to convert hydrocarbons into hydrogen for PEMs
  • Solar-powered vehicles
  • Fully CMOS compatible micro-fuel cells for portable device power
  • Carbide and nitride supported water gas shift catalysts
  • Photoconductive step-function sampler and detector
  • Combustion-based micro thermionic power generator
  • Selective sorbents for desulfurization of liquid fuels
  • Multifunctional electrochemical energy storage materials
  • Particle beam driven chemical reactions and combustion
  • Ultrahigh activity catalysts for low-temperature selected catalytic oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen
  • Microscale fuel cells: PEMFC and DMFC
  • Hydrogen sensors - detecting hydrogen concentrations down to 1ppm
  • Solar-powered portable fuel cells
  • Ethanol effectiveness
  • Chemical processes to densify agricultural waste products to increase their energy potential
  • Green oxidation catalysts
  • Estimating battery power needed for a space missionbalancing needs with weight
  • Thin-film cells that can be incorporated in building materials
  • Lightweight lithium-ion batteries for the military
  • Unmanned plane that can fly across the Pacific Ocean with advanced lithium-ion batteries
  • SUNTRAKER-calibrating solar cells in the stratrosphere under near air mass zero (NAM0) conditions using low cost helium balloons and state-of-the-art communication technologies
  • AIChE Chem E Car project
  • New fuel cell designs, sulfur-based fuel cells, and improved anode and cathode designs
  • Hybrid military vehicles
  • Distributed generation, distributed resources
  • Wind farms - integration/interface into power grid
  • Wind generators, frequency converters, and control systems
  • Wind farms - operational stability and electrical transients
  • Control algorithm development for the natrium fuel cell vehicles
  • Fuel cell APU modeling and integration within vehicle system simulation (ARC)
  • Direct injection investigation for optimized cold start
  • Reactor physics and transmutation studies for advanced nuclear fuel cycle
  • Systematic design of pore size and functionality for methane and hydrogen storage
  • Fuel processors for dynamic hydrogen generation
  • Ni-H Battery cell electrode microstructural analysis
  • Lifecycle assessment of thin film and multi-crystalline PV technologies
  • Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption
  • Control algorithm development for the natrium fuel cell vehicles
  • Li-ion electrodes: simulations and experiments on conductivity and mechanics
  • Level of particulate matter emitted in hydrogen production as well as by diesel, spark-ignited and jet engines




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