Clean Fuels & Catalysis (CFC)

The main mission of CFC is to promote comprehensive, efficient and environmentally-friendly utilization of hydrocarbon resources for making and using clean fuels and chemicals through catalytic and chemical research.

CFC research focuses on ultra-clean fuels, chemicals, applied catalysis, reaction chemistry, new materials and new processing methods related to energy conversion, energy utilization, chemical processing and environmental protection.

The work approaches of CFC are to develop and carry out applied fundamental research projects and to disseminate new knowledge through publications and reports to sponsors.

A major component of CFC work is to carry out collaborative research with industrial partners to provide technical support to industrial partners to provide technical support to industrial R&D in fuels and chemical industries.

Vision

Applied catalysis coupled with reaction chemistry and processing research will become more and more important for environmentally-benign processing in fuels, chemical, and power industries as we move into the 21st century.

Applied catalytic research at CFC will promote potential practical applications of new and improved processes, catalysts, absorbents and reaction chemistry.

CFC will serve as a platform of externally funded research projects and industry-academia collaboration on subjects of practical importance involving clean fuels, catalytic materials, chemical processing, energy conversion, energy utilization, chemicals synthesis and electrical power generation.

CFC will be recognized as an active center of applied catalytic and chemical research in areas of ultra-clean fuels, chemicals and materials that are important to the society at large.