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Greg Kremer's
page on RESEARCH
  
Photo Credit: Rick Fatica
My main research interests are
in Sustainable Energy & the Environment,
especially relating to vehicles.
I am an associate director of the Ohio Coal Research Center
and co-PI on 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
Cyders
Vehicle Projects
Ammonia-fueled
fuel cell powered prototype electric vehicle (NH3 Car) [web page]
Grad student: Christopher Gregg (graduated Summer 2007)
Current Grad Student: Todd Steigerwalt
Green Fuels [Online article - Perspectives Magazine]
Biofuels Projects
Small diesel engine performance testing using biodiesel blends
Grad students: Scott Wallace (graduated Spring 2008), Dhruv
Kohli (all but thesis, on CPT)
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.
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Projects (with coal syngas),
Current Grad students: Steve
Spencer [PhD] (Pressurized planar SOFC testing)
Recent graduates: David Burnette (SOFC testing with hydrogen-depleted syngas)
Edward Achaab (Small-scale coal gasification to
produce syngas)
List of Recent Funded Projects
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Ohio Distributed Hydrogen
Program - Using Coal to Bridge to the Hydrogen Economy, Funded for $20,000 by
the 2005 OU Stocker Endowment Fund (with Dave Bayless),
and $1.3 million through a federal appropriations bill.
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Biodiesel
production and analysis laboratory, $50,000 awarded 2/23/06 by OU Vice
President for Research (with Dr. Stuart, Dr. Bayless,
and Dr. Vis)
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OU Ammonia Fuel Engine Car,
Funded for $36000 as part of the Faculty Research and Graduate Studies Pool
of the 1804 Endowment, 2005-2007. (with Gerri Botte
[CHE] and Jim Zhu [EECS])
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Development of Sulfur Tolerant
Anodes for Deployment of Coal Syngas with Planar
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Stationary Power Generation, Ohio Air Quality
Development Authority - Ohio Coal Research Consortium 2006, $1.13 Million
(with Dave Bayless PI and Ohio Coal Research
Center)
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Hot Gas Cleanup using
Electrostatic Separation, $140,963 from the OCDO Ohio Coal Research
Consortium-IV, 09/01/2004 - 09/30/2006 (with Dave Bayless).
·
The Aeromobile
Project - A Pilot Program for Development of Interdisciplinary Research and
an Aeronautical Graduate Education Program, 1804 Fund Award, $30,000, 8/1/04
- 6/30/06. (with
Jim Zhu [EECS]).
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Fuel Cell Adaptation to
Coal-Derived Syngas, Stocker Research Endowment
Fund, 2002-2003, $20,000. (with Dave Bayless).
·
Adapting Planar Solid Oxide Fuel
Cells for use with Solid Fuel Sources in the Production of Distributed Power,
United States Department of Energy, DE-FG36-03GO13059, $1.93 million, 9/1/03
through 9/30/07 (with D. Bayless PI, B. Stuart and
G. Botte)
·
Integration of Planar
Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells with Coal-Derived Syngas to
Promote Environmentally Sound Energy Production, funded through the Ohio
University 1804 Fund, $43,107, 9/1/2002 through 8/30/2004 (with D. Bayless PI and M. Prudich)
·
Regenerative Supercirculation
Wing for Vertical Takeoff: Experimental Concept Validation, 1804 Fund Award,
$34500, 7/02 – 6/30/04.
(with Jim Zhu [EECS] PI)
·
Adaptive Full Spectrum Solar
Energy Systems, United States Department of Energy DE-PS36-00GO10500, $150,000
for OU to study the use of separated light to grow photosynthetic organisms
in a bioreactor for CO2 mitigation., 6/1/01-5/31/04 (with D. Bayless PI, B. Stuart and M. Vis,
and University of Nevada Reno as the lead institution )
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Enhanced Practical Photosynthetic
CO2 Mitigation, United States Department of Energy DE-FC26-00NT40932, $1.075
million, 9/1/2000 through 8/30/2003 and continued on a no-cost extension
through 2006 (with D. Bayless PI, M. Vis, and B. Stuart)
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Research in Propulsion Systems For Future Vehicles, Ohio Board
of Regents – Hayes Investment Funds, $50,000 for Ohio University,
2000-2002. I am the PI from OU
for this project which was submitted as a collaborative proposal with the
Ohio FutureCar Consortium (PI Giorgio Rizzoni of OSU).
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Dynamometer System for
Automotive Research, Stocker Endowment, $10000, FY 2001-2002.
List of Recent
Publications
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Bayless, D.J.,
Kremer, G., Vis, M., Stuart, B., Shi, L., Cuello, J., Ono, E., “Photosynthetic CO2 Mitigation
using a Novel Membrane-based Photobioreactor,”
accepted for publication in the Journal
of Environmental Engineering and Management, 2006.
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Shi, L., Bayless,
D.J., Kremer, G., and Stuart, B., "CFD Simulation of the Influence of
Temperature and Pressure on the Flow Pattern in Cyclones,",
accepted for publication in Industrial
& Engineering Chemistry Research, 2006.
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Leal, W., Kremer G et al, Design
and Verification of a Safety Monitoring and Control System for a Fuel Cell
Laboratory, Clearwater Coal Conference,
2006.
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Bayless, D.B,
Shi, L., Kremer, G., et al., Membrane-Based Wet Electrostatic Precipitation, Journal of the Air & Waste Management
Association, V55, June 2005.
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Bayless, D.J.,
Kremer, G.G., Vis, M. Stuart, B.J., Prudich, M.E., Cooksey, J.E., and Muhs,
J.S., “Enhanced Practical Photosynthetic CO2 Mitigation,” Third Annual Conference on Carbon
Sequestration, Alexandria, VA, May 3, 2004.
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Trembly, J.,
Marquez, A., Stuart, B., Botte, G., Kremer, G., and
Bayless, D., “Adapting Planar Solid Oxide
Fuel Cells for use with Solid Fuel Sources in the Production of Distributed
Power,” Proceedings of the 29th
International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems,
2004.
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Madireddy, M. and
Kremer, G. "A Study of the "Optimum" Hybridization Ratio for
SUVs and Heavy Trucks", IMECE2003-41777 in the Proceedings of the IMECE 03: 2003 ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November
2003.
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Kremer, G.G., “Enhanced
Robust Stability Analysis of Large Hydraulic Control Systems via a
Bifurcation Based Procedure,” Journal
of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 338, No. 7, November 2001, pg. 781-809.
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Thompson, D.F. and Kremer, G.G.,
“Parametric Model Development and Quantitative Feedback Design for
Automotive Torque Converter Bypass Clutch Control,” Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical
Engineers, (Vol 213 Part I), 1999, pp.249-266.
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Kremer, G.G. and Thompson, D.F.,
“A Bifurcation Based Procedure for Designing and Analyzing Robustly
Stable Nonlinear Hydraulic Servo Systems,” Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, (Vol 212 Part I), 1998, pp. 383-394.
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Thompson, D.F. and Kremer, G.G.,
“Quantitative Feedback Design for a Variable Displacement Hydraulic
Vane Pump,” Optimal Control:
Applications & Methods, (19), 1998, pp. 63-92.
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