Dr. Bruce McCarl
In an era marked by climate change and the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, agriculture provides environmentally safe resources and significant opportunities for economic growth. Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce McCarl is a pre-eminent Texas A&M University faculty member investigating policy, economic analysis and agricultural-based strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change through the utilization of agriculture management strategies such as producing feedstocks for biofuels and capturing carbon in agricultural soils.
Texas A&M Energy Institute Announces 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy
The Texas A&M Energy Institute is proud to announce its 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy schedule, which includes prominent energy leaders from across many energy disciplines and topics. Running from September 2024 through March 2025, this cohort of experts will present the latest innovations, concepts, and topics and will be sure to spark thoughts […]
Building Nexus Resilience
Dr. Bassel Daher, Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Energy Institute, co-leads a Building Nexus Resilience Webinar Series to fill the gap. The series is a partnership between the Texas A&M Energy Institute, United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), SustainFood, Nexus Net, PRIMA, and the International Water Resources Association. It aims to catalyze cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional, and international dialogues toward understanding the knowledge gaps and opportunities in taking a holistic, systems approach to addressing these tightly interconnected challenges.
Team led by Hasan will receive $1.5m from EPA to Reclaim Harmful Refrigerant Chemicals
Prof. Faruque Hasan will lead an EPA funded project titled, SMART-RECLAIM: Scalable, Modular and Adaptable Reclamation Technology for Hydrofluorocarbon Refrigerant Enhancement, Circular Logistics, and Intelligent Manufacturing. In partnership with co-leads Prof. Eleftherios Iakovou and Dr. Kalin Baca the team aims to reduce the overall time and cost of reclaiming highly mixed hydrofluorocarbons by developing a modular technology amenable to extreme changes in hydrofluorocarbons compositions and a data-driven and prescriptive framework for smart reverse logistics.
Former Energy Institute Student Honored with Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dr. Yuhe Tian, a Texas A&M chemical engineering doctoral student from 2016 to 2021 who worked at the Texas A&M Energy Institute, is being honored with the The Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.