Viterbi School Research Topics
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Energy Networks
Information and power itself must move over wide geographical areas. The systems that permit this are complex and have grown without systematic plan and efficiencies are often possible.
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Infrastructure/Megacities/Transportation
The engineering issues around large urban areas are a major focus at the Viterbi School's Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering — and a large portion of these problems deal with energy
- Faculty: Masri, Bardet, Ghanem, Khoshnevis, Dapkus, Govindan, Krishnamachari, Breuer, Gupta, Prasanna, Pedram, Sioutas, Phares, Ghanem, Tsotsis,
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Nano Solar
Certain materials generate electricity when energized by light, while other chemically related materials do the opposite, generating light when energized by electrons.
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New Fuels and Engines
Fuels are substances used as sources of chemical energy, now the main source of electrical power and vehicle propulsion in our society.
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Smart Oil and Gas Extraction
The Viterbi School and its industry-funded Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies, established in 2003, is a world leader in use of IT to guide more efficient extraction of oil and other fossil fuels.
- Faculty: Aminzadeh, Banaei-Kashani, Chung, Ershaghi, Gomadam, Granacki, Heidemann, Kalia, Khoshnevis, Knoblock, La Coss, Mansfeld, Mendel, Nakano, Neches, Neumann, Nocera, Ortega, Prasanna, Qin, Raghavendra, Shahabi, Tambe, Taylor, Vashishta, Wills, Yao, Yortsos, Suya, Don Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang
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Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Each kilo of carbon burned as fuel creates about 4 kilos of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Geological structures exist in which these vast quantities of CO2 could theoreticaly be held for millennia
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Geothermal
Tapping the earth's own wamth is a promising but environmentally complex challenge.
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Ocean Wave Energy
U.S. Pacific coast waves could provide the equivalent of five nuclear power plants worth of completely clean energy.
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