Ten proposals have been selected for funding under the First “Energy Seed Grant” Proposal Call by the Texas A&M Energy Institute. A total of 41 proposals were submitted from six different colleges across our campus. The high quality of submissions was impressive, and we anticipate announcing a second call for proposals in January 2016.
The internal competitive proposal competition has the primary objectives of:
- Encouraging innovative interdisciplinary energy research collaborations.
- Supporting groups of researchers working on important energy-related topics.
Below is a list of the funded projects:
2015 Funded Proposals
Research Proposal Call
Production/Logistics/Processing Design for the Use of Agricultural Feedstocks for Liquid Fuel Production: Case Studies in Two Regions
Principal Investigator
Bruce McCarl
Department of Agricultural Economics
Co-Principal Investigators
Neil Geismar
Department of Information and Operations Management, Mays Business School
Steve Searcy
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Demonstration of Computer-Aided Design and Discovery of Materials for Energy Applications
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Wilhite
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Tahir Cagin
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Domestication of Microalgae — From Natural Diversity to Synthetic Biology
Principal Investigator
Arum Han
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Timothy Devarenne
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Mesoscale Interactions in the Air Electrode for Li-Air Batteries
Principal Investigator
Partha Mukherjee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Sarbajit Banerjee
Department of Chemistry
Hong Liang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andreas Holzenburg
Department of Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Development of Synergetic/mobile Multi-source Multi-purpose Ocean Renewable Energy Station
Principal Investigator
Moo-Hyun (Joe) Kim
Department of Civil Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Kuang-An Chang
Department of Civil Engineering
James Kaihatu
Department of Civil Engineering
Jun Kameoka
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zephyrgy, a Novel Wind Turbine
Principal Investigator
Othon Rediniotis
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Jorge Alvarado
Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
Exploring the Effect of Oil Swelling due to Nanochannel Confinement of CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Unconventional Reservoirs (Shale)
Principal Investigator
Hadi Nasrabadi
Department of Petroleum Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Debjyoti Banerjee
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Petroleum Engineering
Energy Development under Water Scarcity and Climate Change: A Case Study in the San Antonio, TX Region
Principal Investigator
Rabi Mohtar
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Bruce McCarl
Department of Agricultural Economics
A Single-Step Separation and Storage of Methane from Conventional and Unconventional Sources
Principal Investigator
M.M. Faruque Hasan
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou
Department of Chemistry
Hae-Kwon Jeong
Department of Chemical Engineering
Phanourios Tamamis
Department of Chemical Engineering
Integrated Common-Grid Multiscale Models for Seismic Imaging of Subsurface Fluid Flow
Principal Investigator
Richard Gibson
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Co-Principal Investigators
Yalchin Efendiev
Department of Mathematics
Eduardo Gildin
Department of Petroleum Engineering