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Professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering
Expertise: Clean coal, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, materials, synthesis, flames
Bio:
Axelbaum is the Director of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. He also heads the Laboratory for Advanced Combustion and Energy Research and has directed the Engineering section of the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium at Washington University in St. Louis since 1997. He served as the associate director of the Center for Materials Innovation from 2005 to 2008. From 1998 to 2007 he was chairman and chief scientific advisor for AP Materials, Inc., a startup company he founded that specialized in flame synthesis of nanopowders. Cabot Corporation acquired the company and technology in August of 2007. Professor Axelbaum has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and holds four patents. He earned a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Washington University in 1977, a master's and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
WUSTL Contact Information:
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| E-mail: | rla@wustl.edu |
| Address: | One Brookings Drive
Box 1180
St. Louis, MO
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Education:
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Sc.B. in Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
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Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Davis
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Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Davis
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Energy consortium created
Washington University research to advance clean coal technology
Dec. 2,
2008 -- Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced during a Dec. 2 news conference the establishment of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. The university has dedicated more than $60 million in financial resources during the past year to advance education and research related to energy, environment and sustainability. The new consortium will receive additional support in the form of research partnership commitments of $5 million each from Arch Coal and Peabody Energy and $2 million from Ameren, to be paid over five years. The consortium's goal is to bring university researchers, industries, foundations and government organizations together to research clean coal technology, making St. Louis the nation's center for clean coal research.
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Effort would make St. Louis clean coal focal point
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 13 others
Dec. 3,
2008 -- Two major coal companies and one of the Midwest's largest utilities are combining with WUSTL to try and make St. Louis the nation's center for clean coal research and education.
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Additional Background: Axelbaum studies combustion phenomena, ranging from oxy-coal combustion to flame synthesis of nanotubes. His studies of fossil fuel combustion focus on understanding the formation of pollutants, such as soot, and then using this understanding to develop novel approaches to eliminate pollutants. His recent efforts are addressing global concerns over carbon dioxide emissions by developing approaches to carbon capture and storage (CCS). Axelbaum's research has yielded methods of synthesizing stable metal nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes in flames. His present efforts in synthesis are directed towards producing next-generation battery materials.
Axelbaum also performs research on combustion in microgravity and hydrogen fire safety.
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