Energy Management and Sustainability

Renewable Energy, Electric Power Grids, Oil/Gas excluding Extraction, Batteries, Power Electronic Conversion, Waste to Energy and Materials, Thermal Management of Electronic Devices, Air Pollution and Environment

Recent Highlights

26 October

At data centers, a search for sustainable cyberinfrastructure

UTA computer science engineer looks to make data centers more efficient and reliable

12 August

Enhancing energy storage

UTA researcher explores integration and power electronic regulation of batteries for Navy

11 January

Research aimed at improving efficiency of Navy ships

Grant to aid UTA electrical engineer in study of high-voltage insulators

16 November

Project converts food waste into energy

UTA partners with NCTCOG to generate energy from food waste found in landfills

Two researchers examining some electronics in a datacenter.

Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2)

With facilities at UTA, Binghamton University, Villanova University, and Georgia Institute of Technology, the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), works in partnership with government, industry and academia to develop methodologies for efficiently operating electronic systems, including data centers, by controlling resources and managing workloads to achieve optimal energy consumption.

Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2)

Example of a data graphic that might be used in lab.

Electronics, MEMS, & Nanoelectronics Systems Packaging Center (EMNSPC)

The EMNSPC focuses on developing and studying conventional and novel data center cooling technologies and determining the effects of environmental conditions on IT equipment reliability at the server and package level.

EMNSPC

Resources

Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems

Data center sustainability, availability and system energy optimization, holistic IT load management and control, air cooling systems, control and optimization, warm water liquid cooling, two-phase and immersion cooling, waste energy harvesting, power distribution and storage. Embedded cooling Electronics cooling lab, two 625-square-foot data center lab facilities.

Center for Renewable Energy and Science Technology

Converting lignite to low-cost crude oil, converting natural gas to sulfur diesel and aviation fuel, anotechnology-based reactors for converting plant fats to liquid fuel, low-cost solar photovoltaic devices, energy harvesting from wind and hydro sources, portable fuel cells, CO2 conversion to liquid fuels technology, conversion of biodiesel production byproducts to useful products.

Electronics, MEMS and Nanoelectronics Systems Packaging Center

Data center contamination, liquid cooling, immersion cooling, reliability. Viscometer, wind tunnel, DMA, TMA, polarizing microscope, environmental chamber.

Pulsed Power and Energy Lab

Pulsed power sources and loads, high-voltage dielectric breakdown, electrochemical energy storage, mechanical energy storage, electric power delivery systems, microgrids, and power electronics. Equipment?

Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS)

SWIS is an Organized Research Center of Excellence dedicated to developing clean and healthy urban cities through sustainable waste management. SWIS combines science, engineering, and social science expertise to develop new methodologies and solutions that allow researchers to explore international paths to sustainable waste management. SWIS works for a better future by developing sustainable solid waste management that incorporates the economy, people and environment which will be beneficial to all.