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Industry projects:

Among the program's course requirements is ESE 404, the Energy Systems Engineering Project. This course, and the research it entails, is a hallmark of Lehigh's Energy Systems program.

The project constitutes 3 or 6 credits, depending on the complexity of the student's research topic. The project is a collaborative and intensive study in an area of energy systems engineering, with emphasis on direct industrial application.

The following list describes some of the current student research projects underway within ESEI:

POWER GENERATION:
  • Combined Cycle Power Plant Operations Cost Modeling Project
  • Cost Estimates for Retrofit of Once Through Cooling Systems to Closed-Cycle Cooling Systems for Power Plants
  • Biomass Cofiring and Its Effect on the Combustion Process
  • Geothermal Heating and Cooling
  • Passive Anaerobic Digestion System: Backend Integration and Sustainability Implications
  • Anaerobic Digestion for the Production of Biogas
  • Thermal Integration of Compressors in Post-Combustion Carbon Capture and Storage
  • The Future of U.S. Nuclear Power Generation
  • Comparison of Renewable Energy in Germany and Pennsylvania
POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION:
  • Travel Resort Project
  • Smart Grid Data Collection
  • Aluminum gallium nitride Field-Effect Transistor with Normally Off Operations
  • Achieving the Renewable Portfolio Standard in the Mid-Atlantic States
  • Fiber-based Communications
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
  • Analysis of Chemical Treatment in Heterogeneous Soils
  • Evaluating high performance analytical equipment to determine the most cost effective way for fate and transport clean up technology
  • Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Generation Facilities
  • Methods to Reduce the Bioaccessibiltiy of Arsenic in Soils; Interactions of Arsenic-contaminated Fill Material at Substations
  • Water Demands and Availability for Power Generation: Assessing Water Sustainability Options
  • Remediation of PCBs by use of Engineered Natural Systems Technology