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Partnership for the Environment: Academia, Industry, Government
Broad Proposal to Build Leadership in Electric Vehicle Power/Research
An Air Quality Management District award of $2 million to CE-CERT will advance the solar energy ambitions of the University, the City of Riverside and the Riverside Public Utilities. The grant will help the partners build up to 2 MW of solar collectors, battery storage and electric vehicle charging stations to benefit the Inland Empire. Full Story
Gift Honors Engineering Education Partners
Portraits of Marlan and Rosemary Bourns, founders of Bourns Inc. and namesakes of the Bourns College of Engineering now have honored places at the College and at its Center for Environmental Research and Technology. The portraits were unveiled at a December ceremony attended by members of the Bourns family, Dean Reza Abbaschian, and UCR Chancellor Timothy P. White.
State-of-the-Art Battery Test-Bed Unveiled at Chung Hall Ceremony
A $2.5-million gift of rare earth lithium-ion batteries and $600,000 in research funding from Chinese inventor, entrepreneur and Fellow of the Bourns College of Engineering Winston Chung were announced at a ceremony November 9, during which Engineering Building II became Winston Chung Hall. Full Story
Davis Named CE-CERT Deputy Director
Nicole Davis, a CE-CERT/UCR alumna has returned to the Center as the new Deputy Director, succeeding Dennis Fitz who retired in 2011. Davis' efforts will be focused on both the day-to-day operation of CERT and in fulfilling its mission to serve as a creative source of new technology and a valuable contributor to solving pressing environmental and sustainability issues. Full Story
Efficiency of Electric Motors Studied for Significant Savings
CE-CERT has been awarded a grant from the California Energy Commission to conduct the first survey to document the efficiency of existing motors in buildings under actual operating conditions.Electric motors account for almost two-thirds of electricity use in this country. The potential impact of reducing energy waste is high in California where 46.7 percent of power generation goes to HVAC systems in commercial buildings alone. Full Story
Student Research Exchange Explores Environmental Issues
The seventh research symposium between students of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and the University of California, Riverside was a spirited exchange of 10 presentations spanning sustainable energy and emissions research. The collaboration between the two universities has been supported by William Johnson of Johnson Machinery Company of Riverside. The exchange program has served to deepen students understanding of the research approaches of both nations. Full Story
Research Points to More Accurate Pollutant Particle Detection
Graduate Student Zhongqing Zheng won the poster competition at a major aerosol research conference by demonstrating a way to make more accurate counts of diesel particles and showing that the standard laboratory testing cycle (the Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule) underestimates the particle number emissions from real-world driving. Full Story
Lab Honored for Biofuels Pre-Treatment Technology Commercialization
A CE-CERT invention that greatly speeds the laboratory analysis of biomass has received the first License Execution Award of the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC). The award recognized the successful licensing of a method of evaluating 96 biomass samples for their sugar yield simultaneously rather than the previous one-at-a-time, labor-intensive practice. Full Story