Current Projects
- Alternative Fuels and Reformulated Fuels
- Examination of Dimethyl Ether as an Alternative Utility Fuel
- Effect of Oxygenated Cetane Improver on Diesel Engine Combustion and Emissions
- Development of a Dimethyl Ether (DME)-Fueled Shuttle Bus Demonstration Project
- Impact of DME-Diesel Blends on Injector Durability
- In-Cylinder Imaging of Alternative IC Engine Fuels in Production Engines
- Ultra Clean Transportation Fuels
- Low Heat Rejection Diesel Engine
- Examination of Thermal Barrier Coatings for Diesel Particulate Reduction
- Development of High Temperature Lubricants
- Low Temperature Combustion and HCCI Combustion
- Ignition Studies of Alternative Fuels
- Examination of the Thermodynamics of Low Temperature Combustion
- Vegetable Oil and Vapor Phase Lubricants
- Use of Renewable, Vegetable Oil-Based Lubricants in Diesel Engines to Reduce Particulate
Emissions
- Development of High Temperature Lubricants
- Heterogeneous NOx Catalysis
- Low Temperature Catalytic Reduction of NO via Selective Catalytic Reduction by Ammonia
- Catalytic Combustion and Catalytically Stabilized Combustion
- Numerical Studies of the Thermal and Chemical Behavior of Catalytic Combustion on
Monolith Supported Catalysts
- Advanced Thermally Stable Jet Fuels
- Studies of Jet Fuel Thermal Stability Aimed at Development of "JP-900", a Fuel
Formulation that will Resist Deposit Formation at Elevated Temperatures
- Flame - Material Interactions
- Studies of Flame Attenuation of Glass Fibers and Flame Synthesis of Advanced Coatings
from Fly Ash