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Projects at this location
Project | Description |
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Geothermal at the Energy Farm |
Campus is exploring options for retrofitting Energy Farm with Deep Direct Use (DDU) geothermal energy. |
CornCrete |
In April 2017 three faculty members received $14,522 from the University Research Board to |
Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities | |
Foundational Program |
The AFRI Foundational Program supports grants in the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for solving current and future societal challenges. The six priority areas are: |
Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science (IDEAS) |
The IDEAS program - short for Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science - provides a continuing opportunity for the rapid support of early-stage applied research to explore pioneering new concepts with the potential for transformational and disruptive changes in energy technology. |
Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) |
The Office of Land and Emergency Management provides policy, guidance and direction for the Agency's emergency response and waste programs Opportunities for funding may be found under the following programs within The Catalog of Federal Assistance (CFDA) |
Biomass Research and Development Initiative Competitive Grants Program (BRDI) |
The program aims to carry out research on and development and demonstration of:
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Environmental Engineering |
The goal of the Environmental Engineering program is to support transformative research which applies scientific and engineering principles to avoid or minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges, resulting from human activities on land, inland and coastal waters, and air, while promoting resource and energy conservation and recovery. |
Environmental Sustainability |
The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. |
Bioenergy Technologies Office |
This office establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop and demonstrate technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). |
Geothermal Technologies Office |
This office supports groups that research, develop, and validate innovative and cost-competitive technologies and tools to locate, access, and develop geothermal resources in the United States. |
Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge |
The Sustainable Bioenergy challenge area focuses on the societal challenge to secure America's energy future. The challenge hopes to implement regional systems that materially deliver liquid transportation biofuels and reduce national dependence on foreign oil while also producing biopower and biobased products. |
Geothermal Test Well at Energy Farm |
The main objective is to provide comprehensive scientific data and analysis to help our community on evaluating the potential of using ground source heat pump system in a large scale as part of campus green energy policy. |
Biomass Boiler at the Energy Farm |
For many years, the UI has grown significant quantities of biomass plant products at the Energy Farm on South Farms. There have been a few preliminary attempts to identify a post-research use for this material, including the cancelled Vet Med Combined Heat and Power (CHP) project and a study of the compatibility with existing boilers at Abbott Power Plant. Meanwhile the biomass material continues to be stockpiled at the Energy Farm. This project is looking to convert the existing (and future) biomass from the Energy Farm into power for the on-site Energy Farm facility. |
Projects
- Bioenergy Technologies Office
- Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities
- Biomass Boiler at the Energy Farm
- Biomass Research and Development Initiative Competitive Grants Program (BRDI)
- CornCrete
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Sustainability
- Foundational Program
- Geothermal at the Energy Farm
- Geothermal Technologies Office
- Geothermal Test Well at Energy Farm
- Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science (IDEAS)
- Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM)
- Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge
Project Updates
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1/28/2019
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8/10/2018
Spring 2018 semesterly report submitted to the Student Sustainability Committee on behalf of the 'CornCrete' project.