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A Sustainable Path for Energy Production and Use
Currently Funded Projects
Spring 2008
Biofuels and Emerging Technology
Developing and Sponsoring a Workshop-Conference on: Cultivating Clean Renewable Energy from Understanding and Using Synthetic Biology
June Medford Department of Biology, Ken Reardon Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Jan Leach Department of Bioagricultural Science and Pest Management (Capacity Building/$15,000.)
Multi-Disciplinary Work Group for Biofuel from Oilseed Crops in Colorado
Jerry Johnson, Patrick Byrne, Gary Peterson Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Shawn Archibeque Department of Animal Sciences, Craig Bond Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Neil Hansen, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences; Alan Helm, CSU Extension; John McKay, Department of Bioagricultural Science and Pest Management; Dan Olsen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Meg Wilson, CSU Extension (Capacity Building/$15,000.)
Lignin Degradation in Plant Cell Walls by Expressing a Fungal Laccase
A.S.N. Reddy and Gul Shad Ali Department of Biology (Research/$15,000.)
Identification of Genes that Control Biomass Production using Rice Mutants
Jan Leach Department of Bioagriculural Sciences and Pest Management and Dan Bush Department of Biology (Research/$34,996.)
Development of Oilseed Crops for Biofuel Production in Colorado
Patrick Byrne, Jerry Johnson, Neil Hansen Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and John McKay Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management (Research/$35,000.)
Catalytic Membrane Bioreactor for Simultaneous Transesterification and Glycerol Removal
Xianghong Qian Department of Mechanical Engineering and Ranil Wickramasinghe Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Research/$35,000.)
Engine Durability Testing of Camelina Sativa Derived SVO
Daniel Olsen Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jerry Johnson, Nicolas Enjalbert Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Syndi Nettles-Anderson Department of Mechanical Engineering (Research/$32,300.)
Solar, Wind, and Efficiency
Development of Aerodynamically Optimized Photovoltaic Sun-Tracker
Bogusz Bienkiewicz Department of Civil Engineering (Research/$14,994.)
Synthesis of Chromium(III) Polypyridyl Complexes: Toward Control of Interfacial Hole-Transfer Photochemistry
Matthew Shores Department of Chemistry (Research/$15,000.)
Optimizing Cu2ZnSnS4-based Photovoltaic Devices through Chemical Control of Structures and Stoichiometry
Amy Prieto Department of Chemistry (Research/$15,000.)
The Impact of Improved Cook Stoves on Pollution Levels, Health Status, and Global Warming Potential in Nicaragua
Jennifer Peel Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences and Morgan DeFoort Department of Mechanical Engineering (Research/$15,000.)
Fulleride Salts: Decoupling Thermal and Electrical Conductivity for Thermoelectric Applications
Michael Elliott and Amy Prieto Department of Chemistry (Research/$15,000.)
Combustion Chemistry and Pollutant Emissions from Algae-Derived SVO, FAME and HTRD
Anthony Marchese, Azer Yalin, Daniel Olsen Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Volckens Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, and Jeffrey Collett Department of Atmospheric Sciences (Research/$35,000.)
Cross-Cutting Topics
Capacity Building Proposal for the Institute for the Study of Energy and our Future
Kyle Saunders, Michele Betsill Department of Political Sciences, Michael Carolan Department of Sociology, and Robert Kling Department of Economics (Capacity Building/$15,000.)
Clean Energy Capacity Building
Morgan DeFoort Department of Mechanical Engineering and Tom Dean College of Business (Capacity Building/$15,000.)
The Intellectual Property Landscape of Alternative Biofuel Technologies
Gregory Graff Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Research/$14,775.)
A Field-Gate to Factory-Gate Biofuel Offset Assessment System
Keith Paustian Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Richard Conant Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Stephen Ogle, Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, and Ken Reardon Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Research/$33,365.)
Demography, Economics, and Politics of Household Solar Energy Use in The United States
Sammy Zahran, Michael Lacy Department of Sociology, and Craig Trumbo Department of Journalism and Technical Communication (Research/$20,000.)
