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Greg Kremer's
page on RESEARCH
  
My main research interests are in
Sustainable Energy & the Environment,
especially relating to vehicles,
and Designing to Make a Difference,
including Appropriate Technology.
I am an associate director of
The Ohio Coal Research
Center
and am involved in many of the center's projects.
The center is part of the Russ
College of Engineering's
Institute for Sustainable Energy and the
Environment,
and is affiliated with Ohio University's
Consortium
for Energy, Economics and the Environment.
Some info on current projects
Appropriate Technology Projects
Engineering
Around the World: Driving local economics in Africa with human power
Grad Student: Timothy
J. Cyders, 2008.
The project involved Design of a Human-Powered Utility Vehicle for Developing
Communities
Community-Appropriate
Technology for Staple Seeds (CATSS) Project
[Develop and build a community-scale appropriate technology thresher for
small farms]
Grad Student: ?
Vehicle Projects
Ammonia-fueled
fuel cell powered prototype electric vehicle (NH3 Car) [web page]
Green Fuels [Online article - Perspectives Magazine]
Alternative
Energy Testbed Electric Vehicle and Thermal
Management System Investigation
Grad student: Christopher Gregg, 2007
RESTORATION
OF FIBERFAB BODY AND 1967 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DEMO
VEHICLE
Grad Student: Todd Steigerwalt, 2009
Developing,
Demonstrating, and Validating a Vehicle Test Bed
to Extend the Capabilities of a Chassis Dynamometer Test System
Grad Student: Robert T. Murphy, 2008
Aeromobile regenerative supercirculation
test stand (ARSTS)
Grad Student: Jason Fink, 2004
Analytical
design of a parallel hybrid electric powertrain for
sports utility vehicles and heavy trucks
Grad Student: Madhava Rao Madireddy,
2003
Design
and validation of a chassis dynamometer for present and future vehicle
testing and design
Grad Student: Robert L. Wilson,
III, 2002
Biofuels Projects
Diesel Engine
Energy Balance Study Operating on Diesel and Biodiesel
Fuels
Grad student: Scott J. Wallace, 2008
Development and Validation of a NOx Emission Testing Setup for a Diesel Engine, Fueled
with Bio-Diesel.
Grad student: Dhruv Kohli,
2009
Biodiesel production from algae
Algae
production and CO2 mitigation [pdf presentation
file]
Our research group (with D. Bayless as first
named inventor and Morgan Vis as co-inventor)
has a patent titled “Enhanced Practical Photosynthetic CO2
Mitigation” (Patent No. 6667171)
for producing algae on suspended membranes.
Bioreactor design for CO2 Remediation
Analytical
& experimental analysis of alternative systems for harvesting organisms
in a biologically based CO2 mitigation system
Grad student: Jia Ma, 2003
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Projects (with coal syngas),
Pressurized planar SOFC testing
Grad student: Steve Spencer [PhD, in process]
The
Performance of Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells using Hydrogen-depleted Coal Syngas
Grad Student: David Burnette, 2007,
Project: Small-scale coal gasification to produce syngas
Grad Student: Edward Achaab
For More Info:
Greg Kremer’s
Resume (including info on publications)
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