Design Engineering of Energy & Mineral Engineering Systems

 

Students in this class work in teams to address a contemporary issue in science and engineering. At the initiation of a project, the teams compile concept maps to define the critical inter-relationships within the task, redefine the task as necessary, and then proceed to complete a workable solution.

 

Some examples of recent projects are given below:

 

Fall 2004 - Offshore Methane Hydrates: Their Optimal Recovery and Utilization

 

Team I - An Assessment of Methane Hydrate Recovery and Processing at Hydrate Ridge

George Alexander, Masoud Almarri, Esra Eren, Elise Fox, Deepa Narayanan

 

Team II - Offshore Methane Hydrates: Optimal Recovery and Utilization

Yanming Gong, Venkata Pradeep Indrakanti, Peter Perez, Scott Powers, Ramya Venkataraman

 

Team III - Optimal Recovery of Methane Hydrates of the Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon

Prabhat Naredi, Marielle Narkiewicz, James Strohm, Uthaiporn Suriyapraphadilok, Bei Wang, Yu Zhang

 

Spring 2006 CO2 Capture, Sequestration, and Utilization

 

Team Capture

Lu-Ming Chen, Vasudha Dhar, Jiahua Guo, Meredith Hill, Hyun Jae Kim, Onur Mustafaoglu, Nari Soundarrajan, Ram Sundararaman

 

Team Sequestration

Dirk Van Essendelft, Joshua Taron, Michael Fitzgerald, Abdallah Abdel-Hafez, Apurba Sakti, Ogogbane Achimugu, Igor Faoro

 

Team Utilization

Yan Li, Brandie Markley, Arun Ram Mohan, Victor Rodriguez-Santiago, David Thompson, Daniel Van Niekerk

 

Spring 2007 Biomass, Biofuels and Geothermal Energy

 

Team Biofuels

Jamie Clark, Qixiu Li, Greg Lilik, Nicole Reed, Chunmei Wang

 

Team Biomass

LaTosh Gibson, Junichiro Kugai, Charles Winslow, Chao Xie

 

Team Geothermal

Denis Pone, Eunhye Kim

 

Spring 2008 Sustainable Energy Policies for the United States

 

Team West

Victor Fernandez-Alos, Sarah Hipple, Yu Noda, Po-fu Shih

 

Team Central

Thomas McGuire, Hee Je Seong, Kuen Yehliu, Peng Ye

 

Team East

Sylvain-Didier B Kouame, Robert Edward Snow III, Aime Hilaire Tchapda, Roozbeh Foroozan

 

Spring 2009 Sustainable Energy Policies for the United States

 

CO2 Capture, Utilization and Sequestration [presentation] [report]

Bander Al Ghamdi, Kyungsoo Kim, Seyhan Emre Gorucu, Yogesh Bansal

 

Design of a Coal IGCC Plant for the Co-Production of Electricity and H2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [presentation] [report]

Brad Hartwell, Nasir Ismail, Daniel G. Kim, Jae Hyun Ma

 

Sustainable Development and Design of Marcellus Shale Play in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania [presentation] [report]

Armstrong Agbaji, Byungtark Lee, Hemant Kumar, Rohan Belvalkar, Safa Eslambolchi, Sidonie Guiadem, Sunghae Kim

 

Assessing the Costs of Dispatchable Wind Energy: An Integrated Wind-Turbine and Energy Storage System [presentation] [report]

Clayton Barrows, Alisha Fernandez, Brian Marpoe, Lucas Witmer

 

Spring 2010 A Critical Assessment of Sustainable Energy Choices for the United States

 

Economic Optimization Analysis of the Development Process on a Field in the Barnett Shale Formation [report]

Chukwuma Uzoh, Jiahang Han, Li Wei Hu, Nithiwat Siripatrachai, Tunde Osholake, Xu Chen

 

Implementation of Biogas or Biomass at the Penn State University West Campus Steam Plant [report]

Sakthivale Roshan Dhaneswar, Heather Fennessey, Hari Swarup Jammulamadaka

 

Coalbed Methane: Recovery and Utilization in North Western San Juan, Colorado [presentation] [report]

Eghonghon Ojeifo, Kelvin Abaa, Megan Orsulak, Sarmishtha Sircar, Sashank Sharma, Tushar Vatsa

 

Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Hydrocarbon Fuels [presentation] [report]

Justin Beck, Ryan Johnson, Tomoki Naya

 

Comparative Analysisof ICL as an Alternative to Crude Oil [presentation] [report]

Yesica Alvarez, Vamsi Karri, Enette Louw, Sarah Luchner, Orin Moyer, Emanuela Peduzzi

 

Feasibility and Design of an Engineered Geothermal System using Dry and Abandoned Holes as a Prospective Location [presentation] [report]

Amirreza Ghasemi, Denis Arun Alexis, Pichit Vardcharagossad, Vijayragavan Krishnamoorthy

 

Carbon Capture and Storage [presentation] [report]

Kanin Bodipat, Diraj Diraj, Evan Frye, Louyi Hua, Toby McCabe

 

Design and Simulation of a Distributed PV System for Pennsylvania State University [report]

Oladipo Ositelu, Ruveyda Cetiner, Mesude Bayrakci, Charith Tammineedi, Vasudev Jagarlamudi

 

Spring 2011 A Critical Assessment of Sustainable Energy Choices for the United States

 

Plasma Gasification for VOC Destruction [presentation] [report]

Amrita Mukherjee, Chethan K Gaddam, Debanjan Das, Ganesh R Bhimanapati

 

Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide-Circulated EGS Combined with IGCC in New Mexico [presentation] [report]

Divya Chandra, Caleb Conrad, Vaibhav Rajput, Anukalp Narasimharaju

 

Renewable Sources of Electricity for Penn State University Park[presentation] [report]

Olaide  Oyetayo and Osahon Abbe

 

Economic Comparison of Multi-Lateral Drilling over Horizontal Drilling for Marcellus Shale Field Development [presentation] [report]

Taha Murtuza Husain, Leong Chew Yeong, Aditya Saxena, Ugur Cengiz, Sarath Ketineni, Amey Khanzhode, Hadi Muhamad

 

EESiPV: Electrochemical Energy Storage-integrated Photovoltaics [presentation] [report]

Rebecca Hott, Mark Labarbera, Jeff Rayl, Kuangyuan Zhang

 

Coal Conversion and Utilization for Reducing CO2 Emissions from a Power Plant [presentation] [report]

Chenxi Sun, Ruthut Larpudomlert, Sukanya Thepwatee

 

Optimization of Well Stimulation Fluids in the Marcellus Shale Gas Development Using Integrated Technologies [presentation] [report]

Richard Olawoyin, Jason York, Christian Madu, Hang Li, Chong Hyun Ahn, Khalid Enab

 

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