Clean Fuels & Catalysis Research

• Production of advanced thermally-stable jet fuels using petroleum- and coal-based feedstocks
  
• Catalytic reforming of natural gas to produce syngas and hydrogen
  
• Deep desulfurization of diesel fuels, jet fuels and gasoline for ultra-clean fuels (pdf)
  
• Tri-reforming of natural gas for conversion and utilization of CO₂ with flue gas
  
• Reforming of liquid hydrocarbon fuels and alcohols for fuel cell applications
  
• New catalytic materials for jet fuel processing including deep desulfurization and hydrogenation
  
• Chemistry and stabilizers for advanced thermally stable jet fuels for high-Mach aircraft
  
• Capture of CO₂ from flue gas of power plants (pdf)
  
• Capture of H₂S from reformate of hydrocarbon fuels for fuel cell applications
  
• Shape-selective catalysis over molecular sieves for value-added organic chemicals
  
• Computational analysis of reaction pathways in catalytic processes
  
• Computer simulation of molecular dynamics in pore channels of catalytic materials
  
• New catalytic materials for fuel and chemical processing and synthesis of organic chemicals
  
• Analytical characterization of catalytic materials and fuels
  
• Upgrading of coal, heavy oil, resid and coal-based liquid feedstocks to clean fuel