In just the past year, UMass Lowell faculty received approximately $13.5 million in research funding related to energy.
Energy Funding
| Principal Investigator (PI) | Co-PI(s) | Project Title | Agency | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agar, Ertan | Murat Inalpolat, Alireza Amirkhizi | Manufacturing of Fabric Electrodes using a High-Throughput Screening Platform for Redox Flow Batteries | US Department of Energy (DOE) | $500,000 |
| I-Corps: High-Stability Bio-Inspired Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $50,000 | ||
| Amir, Ameli | Margaret Sobkowicz-Kline, Idaho National Laboratory, Washington State University, Auburn University, DTG Recycle Group, Remacol Inc., Coperion Corp., Barnes Group, Sirmax | Developing Technologies for Recovery and Reuse of Nonrecyclable Mixed-Waste Plastics and Natural Fibers for Building Construction and More | U.S. DOE's REMADE Institute, Corporate partners | $1,750,000 |
| Apul, Onur | Xiaoqi Zhang | Increasing Biogas Production from Wastewater Residual Sludge by a Novel, Single-Step Nano-Enabled Thermal Pretreatment Method | Mass Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst | $65,000 |
| Hunter Mack | Nano-Enabled Combustion of Natural Gas in Constant Volume Isothermal Chambers | Columbia Gas | $150,000 | |
| Hunter Mack | Enhanced Combustion of Natural Gas using Nano-Additives | Columbia Gas | $150,000 | |
| Che, Fanglin | CAREER: Interpretable Deep Learning for Advancing Field-Enhanced Catalysis | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $875,000 | |
| Chen, Julie | Christopher Neizrecki & Joe Hartman | UMass Lowell (UML) / Fraunhofer CSE integration | MassCEC | $1,200,000 |
| Adam Shine, Matthew Plummer, & David Wagger | Chemical Recycling of Mixed Plastics and Precious Metals in the Electronic Wastes Using Solvent-based Processing | The REMADE Institute | $89,000 | |
| TOTAL | $37,236,677 | |||
*Noted if affiliated organization or institution is other than UMass Lowell.
**Noted where UMass Lowell is the sub-contractor and there is a different non-UML PI listed.