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Eckhard A. Groll, the William E. and Florence E. Perry Head of Mechanical Engineering and Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received the F. Paul Anderson Award from ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), the society's highest honor.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and ClimateWorks Foundation have made awards to seven cross-disciplinary teams of early career scientists in the fourth and final year of Scialog: Negative Emissions Science, an initiative aiming to advance the underlying science needed to make technologies to capture and utilize greenhouse gases globally scalable.

Purdue University researchers have created an IoT software platform called MySmartE that incentivizes people to use energy-efficiency programs developed by government and industry.

On October 19 and 20 the Industrial Advisory Committee met at Purdue University's Herrick Laboratories.

Davide Ziviani is leading a $3 million project from the Department of Energy to investigate high temperature heat pumps, which have the potential to reduce energy use in many industries.

Professor Xiulin Ruan's research into the "Whitest Paint" makes the NBC Nightly News

56-year-old Ramin Ansari had a long and successful career before deciding to enroll for a Ph.D. at Purdue University. He was surprised to learn that graduate students are eligible to participate in the Purdue Grand Prix, the prestigious annual go-kart race. So he assembled a team of fellow Herrick Labs students to make it happen.

There's a battle going on to create more efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. But what if those systems are needed on an actual battlefield? The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has enlisted Herrick Labs to explore refrigerants that are both sustainable, and safe to operate in combat conditions.

Greg Shaver doesn’t believe there should be a trade-off between protecting the air we breathe and achieving better engine efficiency of large vehicles on the road. Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor and director of Purdue’s Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, is part of a national effort researching the reduction of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and microscopic particle emissions and improving the efficiency of diesel engines on the road today.

Switching to renewable energy is an important step to reducing the effects of climate change, especially in heavy industry like steel mills. But while many choose to focus on technological advancements alone, it’s the steelworkers themselves who will ultimately make-or-break this transition away from fossil fuels. A new research project from Herrick Labs assistant professor Rebecca Ciez combines both technology and sociology – studying how the steelworkers of the future will be affected by electrification.