The Texas A&M Energy institute is proud to announce that nine proposals have been selected for funding under its Second Annual “Energy Seed Grant” Research Proposal Call. A total of 55 proposals were submitted from five colleges at Texas A&M University, as well as the Texas A&M School of Law, the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and Texas A&M at Qatar.
In its second year, 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.
The faculty steering committee members reviewed the proposals and were challenged by the high caliber of research programs submitted by our Texas A&M Energy Institute affiliated faculty.
2016 Funded Proposals
Second Annual Research Proposal Call
Geothermal Foundations to Reduce Utility Cost for Buildings
Principal Investigator
Jean-Louis Briaud
Spencer J. Buchanan Chair Professor and Regents Fellow, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Marcelo Sanchez
Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Charles Culp
Professor, Department of Architecture
Analysis and Optimization of the Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Networks
Principal Investigator
Sergiy Butenko
Professor and Donna and Jim Furber ’64 Faculty Fellow in Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Ivan Damnjanovic
Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Data Science Methods to Improve Wind Energy Operations
Principal Investigator
Yu Ding
Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Co-Principal Investigators
Jianhua Huang
Professor, Department of Statistics
Chanan Singh
Professor, Department of Statistics
Modeling and control of proppant bank height to achieve uniformity in hydraulic fracturing
Principal Investigator
Joseph Sang-II Kwon
Assistant Professor, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Peter P. Valkó
Professor and Robert L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering, Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
Renewable and Low-cost Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Sector
Principal Investigator
Mohammad Naraghi
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Lei Fang
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Grid Scale Energy Storage Flywheels
Principal Investigator
Alan Palazzolo
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Principal Investigator
Hamid A. Toliyat
Raytheon Endowed Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
In-situ/in-operando Probing of Lithiation/Delithiation Dynamics and Computational Structure-Dynamics Correlation Study for Development of Efficient Nanoscale Si-Li Anodes for Batteries
Principal Investigator
Dong Hee Son
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Co-Principal Investigator
Perla Balbuena
Professor and holder of the GPSA Professorship, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Modeling Surface Water Quality Impacts of Shale Oil and Gas Development in Texas
Principal Investigator
Reid Stevens
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Co-Principal Investigator
Raghavan Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Management and Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Lignin Carbon Fibers to Enable Sustainable and Cost-effective Biorefinery
Principal Investigator
Joshua S. Yuan
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
Co-Principal Investigator
Li Liu
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering