Professor N. Ashgriz
Emission Reduction from Combustion Systems: Majority of combustion systems, such as Boilers, incinerators and diesel engines, burn liquid fuels. During this process, liquid needs to be atomized and mixed with the oxidizers for proper combustion. Improper mixing and combustion will result in significant emissions. We are involved in developing methods to better mix liquid fuels with the oxidizers to reduce emissions.

Professor S. Chandra
Development of air filtration systems to remove sub- micron sized particles from an air stream. Experimentation to observe the motion of air-borne particles in an electric field. Development of computer codes to model air filtration.

Professor A. Mandelis
Research and Development of a family of new solid-state gas sensors for environmental pollution monitoring, and primarily for hydrogen, hydrocarbon and helium trace gas detection, with a view to the era of safe hydrogen energy production and utilization.

Professor C.B. Park
Development of environmentally-safe blowing agents in microcellular plastic foam processing: the development of a sorption system to measure the solubility and diffusivity of an environmentally sound blowing agent, and the investigation of the surfactant effect on the foam morphology.

Professor L. Shu
Environmentally responsible product design.  Such design aims to produce minimal environmental impact during product manufacture, life, recycling, and disposal.  Resource inputs and waste outputs over the product life-cycle are useful metrics for comparing environmental impact of various product designs.  Computer tools and optimization methods are used to determine minimal-impact designs for particular applications and to develop general guidelines for environmentally conscious product design.

Professor M. Thomson
Air pollution control; Formation and control of combustion generated air pollutants; Experimental and computational studies of soot formation and control; Modeling with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and chemical kinetics;  Novel pollutant control strategies;  Development of laser systems for pollutant measurement; Applications in the steel,  pulp and paper, energy and solid waste management industries.

Professor J.S. Wallace
Catalytic after treatment of exhaust gas for reducing the amounts of combustion generated air pollutants: Examining the effectiveness of novel means of achieving faster catalyst light off to reduce the amount of time that engine emissions pass through the catalyst unreacted.