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 KAUST Supports Renewable Production ResearcherBruce Logan, the Kappe professor of environmental engineering at Penn State, and Director of the Penn State Hydrogen Energy Center, is one of 12 scientists worldwide to receive a Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Logan will receive up to $10 million over the next five years to investigate microbial fuel cell technologies. Logan’s research project is on "Energy for a Sustainable Water Infrastructure and Agriculture." The aims of this project are to produce hydrogen gas or electricity directly from organic matter either in wastewater or from agricultural cellulosic wastes. When used as a method of wastewater treatment, the process produces clean water and recovers energy from the organic matter in the wastewater. A modified version of this device, called a microbial electrolysis cell, can be used as a method for directly generating hydrogen gas at high yield and high efficiencies from cellulosic agricultural wastes or wastewaters. The energy recovered can be used for water desalinization, pumping or other applications. His renewable hydrogen technology was recently described in a publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Logan's website is at http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/enve/logan.htm. Through the GRP, KAUST, a new graduate-level research institution currently under development in Saudi Arabia, is providing individual research assistance to a group of highly accomplished scientists and engineers who are dedicated to a wide range of research topics of global significance with particular importance to Saudi Arabia and the region. Their research includes issues such as water desalination, renewable and sustainable next-generation energy sources, genomics of salt-tolerant plants, durable and environmentally friendly construction materials, sustainable utility of hydrocarbons, low-cost high-efficiency solar technology and the application of computational science to human health and biotechnology. Each Investigator is expected to spend three weeks or more on the on the KAUST campus in Saudi Arabia.  |
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