Energy

Study shows routes for recycling carbon dioxide and coal waste into useful products
Sept. 27, 2024
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Written by Steven Schultz, Office of Engineering Communications

A congressionally mandated study led by Princeton's Emily Carter has released a comprehensive roadmap for research and policies to enable large-scale recycling of carbon pollution into high-demand, useful products like fuels and construction materials.

The release follows a 

Apprenticeship program at PPPL to expand with DOE funding 
Sept. 25, 2024
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Written by B. Rose Huber, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will expand its apprenticeship program model nationally, thanks to funding from the DOE’s Office of…

News Producing ‘green ammonia’ using plasma will be the focus of a new Princeton-PPPL project
Sept. 18, 2024
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Written by B.Rose Huber, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Project supported by a $3.6 million National Science Foundation grant

A new collaborative research project will provide potential solutions for decarbonizing chemical plants, helping to establish American leadership in “green manufacturing.”

The project is supported by a $3.6 million grant from the…

Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering
Sept. 18, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning

As a part of a broad set of investments around artificial intelligence, Princeton University has launched AI for Accelerating Invention, an initiative to achieve faster breakthroughs across engineering disciplines, including biomedicine, robotics and nuclear fusion.

“What we have the…

NJ R&D Council honors pioneering contributions by Princeton researchers
Aug. 15, 2024
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Written by by Office of Engineering Communications

The Research & Development Council of New Jersey has recognized four Princeton Engineering researchers for their pioneering contributions to innovation.

Brian Kernighan won the Science & Technology Medal, the R&D Council’s highest honor, for his work on computer programming languages. Naveen Verma, Hongyang Jia and Hossein…

Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future
July 17, 2024
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Written by Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Since 2011, enormous seaweed blooms have spread across the Atlantic Ocean, spanning over 5,000 miles from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the leviathan — visible from space — has wreaked havoc on environments and economies throughout the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, where unprecedented…

Diversifying China’s Urban Heating Systems will Reduce Risk of Carbon Lock-in
July 8, 2024
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

Since its implementation in 2017, China’s clean heating policy has considerably improved air quality.  However, the share of non-fossil sources in China’s urban district heating systems remains low.   According to a Princeton-led study (Link is external),…

Common plastics could passively cool and heat buildings with the seasons
June 27, 2024
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Written by by the Office of Communications

Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter.

In an article published June 27 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, they report that by…

Co-production of steel and chemicals could help mitigate hard-to-abate carbon emissions
June 27, 2024
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

Hard-to-abate sectors accounted for approximately 30% of global CO2 emissions in 2018.  One third of these hard-to-abate emissions were a result of the fossil fuels and feedstocks used in the steel and chemical industries.   A Princeton-led 

AI approach elevates plasma performance and stability across fusion devices
June 7, 2024
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Written by Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Achieving a sustained fusion reaction is a delicate balancing act, requiring a sea of moving parts to come together to maintain a high-performing plasma: one that is dense enough, hot enough, and confined for long enough for fusion to take place.