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Latest Energy Research Center News
Turning Heat Into Power, and Research Into Reality
Lehigh Startup Energy Storage Technologies (EST) Signs Express License to Commercialize Thermal Battery Technology
Developing Energy-Efficient Solutions for AI Data Centers
Lehigh’s Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions (ACES) is addressing the energy needs of AI data centers.
ACES university center faculty hosts electrification workshop at Lehigh
The core members of a proposed university research center, the Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions (ACES), organized a workshop on the campus of Lehigh University.
Lehigh team awarded $3.7M for Hydrogen Technology Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been incentivizing researchers to identify alternative fuel sources. DOE Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) recently awarded six research groups a total of $9.3 million to develop clean hydrogen technologies, including a Lehigh University team led by Carlos Romero.
ERC grad student wins ‘Excellence in R&D’ award
Energy Research Center (ERC) graduate student Gabriel Bonsall ’23, who is pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, won the Best Student Poster and Excellence in Research and Development award at the 2024 FECM/NETL Spring R&D Project Review Meeting.
Recovering valuable resources from utility waste
Recovering valuable resources from utility waste: Multidisciplinary team of researchers receive $2.5M DOE grant to identify REEs & EOIs in wastewater and solid waste streams, and to develop tech to extract those elements
ERC Develops Anthracite-Based Activated Carbon for Supercapacitor Applications
Under funding from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) and Blaschak Anthracite Corp. (Blaschak), the Energy Research Center (ERC) worked on the development of a promising anthracite-base electrode material for high-performing supercapacitor applications.
A cool (temperature) take on direct air carbon capture
With continued DOE support, Lehigh University and Advanced Cooling Technologies tackle the next phase of developing technology that extracts CO2 at ambient temperature and could tap into industrial waste heat or geothermal energy to power the process.
