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Greg Kremer's page
on RESEARCH
  
My main research interests are:
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
which 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 recent 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: Joe Schultheis, ____
Vehicle Projects
Ammonia-fueled
fuel cell powered prototype electric vehicle (NH3 Car) [web page]
A Parametric Study of Stack
Performance for a 4.8kW PEM Fuel Cell
Grad student: Tyler Edwards, 2010
Power Distribution System Modeling and Simulation
of an Alternative Energy Testbed Vehicle
Grad student: Yin Wu, 2010
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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