CONSERVATION / EFFICIENCY
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From highly efficient automobiles to efficient light bulbs to motion-sensing light switches, more efficient devices and reduction in waste can contribute as much toward a sustainable energy future as discovery of new energy sources. Research carried out at the University of Illinois is aimed at both improving efficiency of energy-consuming devices as well as conservation of energy by reducing waste.
Areas of Research Focus
Illinois researchers are leading the way on saving energy and resources — now and in the future.
Specific projects include:
- Design and operation of motors.
- Design of a high-speed, high-frequency air-core machine.
- MEMS and microelectronics for motor and energy applications.
- Progress toward more efficient wind farms.
- Fast modeling of solar costs and sensitivity.
- Dynamic energy management needs in energy-efficient buildings imposed by stochastic solar resources.
- Applied fluid mechanics principles for efficient wind power harvesting.
- Differential processing for improvements in solar array energy harvest.
- Induction motor drive design based on drive-cycle energy minimization.
- Energy and water efficiency in residential homes.
- Photoconversion efficiency of perovskite solar cell materials.
- High-efficiency III-V solar cells and thin-film inorganic solar cells.
- Visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) and thin-film flexible LEDs.
- Wind energy and environment.
Researchers
Phillip Ansell
Electrical and chemical engineering; materials science
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Fluid mechanics and thermal sciences
Nam Sung Kim
Electricity grid and energy consumption
Waltraud M. Kriven
Mechanical properties and materials
Nenad Miljkovic
Fluid mechanics and thermal sciences
Carlos Pantano-Rubino
Fluid dynamics and thermal sciences
ILLINOIS RESEARCH CENTERS
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)
- Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)
- Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS)
- Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability (EWES) Program
- Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromagnetics (CEME)
- Illinois Center for Smarter Electric Grid (ICSEG)
- International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER)
- Light Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI-EFRC)
- Power and Energy Systems Research Area in ECE Department
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)
ONGOING GRANTS & GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
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