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Huber Group Creates New PEM Fuel Cell Technology for Renewable Fuels

George Huber, the Armstrong Professional Development Professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chemical Engineering Department, has received $25,000 from the university’s Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) office to help commercialize a “proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology” capable of producing renewable fuels and other chemicals from biomass, electricity, and water. With time, PEM fuel cells could prove to be an economical and efficient power source to replace the gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines.

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Wolf Publishes “Most Comprehensive Book” on Network Systems

Dr. Tilman Wolf of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is the co-author of a new textbook, Architecture of Network Systems published by Morgan Kaufmann, which has been called “the most comprehensive book on network systems” published to date. As Wolf explains, “Basically, you would read our book in order to understand how to design the devices that make the Internet work.” Architecture of Network Systems shifts the emphasis of most books and courses on computer networks away from their protocols and the software they use to the hardware systems that are...

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In Search of an Optimal Climate Change Policy

A crucial step for establishing a national climate change policy, one of the biggest policy decisions facing this country and the world, is deciding which developing energy technologies will best maintain that policy once it’s in place. The next step is calculating exactly how much money to invest in R&D for each of those chosen technologies. These critical steps, in fact, describe the ongoing research of Dr. Erin Baker of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. Her research employs interviews with experts combined with sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques to...

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Dauenhauer Receives NSF Grant to Study Pyrolysis of Wood

Paul J. Dauenhauer of the Chemical Engineering Department has been awarded a one-year, $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct basic research on the chemical process pyrolysis - breaking down woody biomass by heating it. Dr. Dauenhauer seeks to unlock the complex chemistry that takes place when wood is heated. He says heating woody biomass to high temperatures actually creates a brief liquid state before it turns to gas and this liquid state is of particular interest to scientists trying to produce the basic chemicals needed for biofuels. Dauenhauer says this...

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