CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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Current Grants

1. NSF-HRD CREST $5,000,000 “Bioenergy Center”, 10/01/12-09/30/17, PI institution: North Carolina A&T. Subcontractor: D. Mainardi with a total budget of $300,000

2. NSF-EPS $20,000,000 “Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications” within the Louisiana EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement project, 08/01/10-07/31/15, PI: M. Khonsari, Co-PIs: Bala Ramachandran, Randall Hall, Mark Jarrell, Lawrence Pratt. Senior Investigator: D. Mainardi (with a total budget of approximately $275,000) and over 51 other researchers within the State of Louisiana

3. Louisiana Tech Technology Fee Board $75,912 “College-Wide Engineering and Science Computational Teaching Laboratory Upgrade”, 10/01/12-09/30/13, PI: D. Mainardi

4. Shell Chemical $47,738 “Louisiana Northern Regional Collaborative”, 09/01/12-08/31/13, PIs: P. Derosa (replaces D. Mills as of 09/01/12) and D. Mainardi. This is a Grambling State University (GSU)/Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech) joint collaborative. Derosa acts as the GSU PI, while Mainardi acts as the LA Tech PI.

Research at a glimpse

Expired Grants:

EXPIRED RESEARCH GRANTS:

1. NASA $20,000 “Testing of Geopolymer  Binders in Rocket Plume Environments at NASA Stennis Space Center”, 05/01/12-01/31/13, PI: E. Allouche, Co-PIs: D. Mainardi and Kunal Kupwade-Patil

2. NSF CBET-0955812, $96,447 “Emerging Issues in National Energy and Environmental Security: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Chemical Engineers”, 09/01/09-08/31/11, PI: V. K. Mathur (University of New Hampshire), Co-PI: D. Mainardi

3. DoE $40,000 “Nano-structured Catalytic Matrices for Enhanced Hydrogen Production from Ammonia Borane”, 09/01/09-08/31/10, PI: S. Gold, Co-PI: D. Mainardi

4. LA BoR-NSF PFUND contract NSF(2008)-PFUND-109, $10,000 “Kinetics of Methanol Production Catalyzed by Methanol Dehydrogenase after the Photochemical conversion of CO2 to Formate”, 04/01/08-03/31/09, PI: D. Mainardi

5. LA Tech Summer Research Faculty Development Grant, $1,000 “Carbon-Beryllium Lithium Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage: A Theoretical Approach”, 05/19/06-09/15/06, PI: D. Mainardi

6. DARPA and NAVY SPAWAR SC under award N66001-05-1-8903, $57,422 “Nanotechnology in Microscale Fuel Cells”-Phases I and II, 02/20/05-05/31/06, PI: S. Gold, Co-PI: D. Mainardi

7. LA Tech Summer Research Faculty Development Grant, $2,000 “Study of Polymer Geometrical and Electronic Structure using Quantum Mechanics Calculations”, 02/20/05-06/30/05, PI: P. Derosa, Co-PI: D. Mainardi

8. DARPA and NAVY SPAWAR SC under award N66001-05-1-8903, $10,000 “Novel Carbon-Based Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage”, 02/20/05-06/30/05, PI: D. Mainardi

9. DoE-BES DE-FG02-05ER46246, $300,000 “Understanding the local atomic level effect of dopants in complex metal hydrides using synchroton x-ray adsorption spectroscopy and density functional theory”, 09/01/05-07/31/09, PI: T. Dobbins, Co-PI: D. Mainardi, Y. Lvov and Amitava Roy (replaces Roland Tittsworth, initial co-PI who deceased 12/20/2005) from the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) at Louisiana State University

10. NSF-CTS-0449046, $400,000 “CAREER: Modified-Methanol Dehydrogenase Enzymatic Catalysts For Fuel Cell Devices”, 08/01/05-07/31/10, PI: D. Mainardi

11. NSF-DMR-0414903, $119,649 “IMR: Acquisition of an Altix3700 for Nano/Bio-Technology Computational Research and Student Training”, 09/01/04-08/31/07, PI: D. Mainardi, Co-PI:  B. Ramachandran, A. Paun, D. Haynie, and P. Derosa.

 

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