Conventional Energy

Research focused on improving the efficiency and safety of conventional energy production, and on the mitigating of the environmental impacts of its production, transport and use

Water droplet from Ultra-low drag hydrodynamics, Energy Futures, Spring 2011 Credit: Justin Knight

Research

Underground storage of carbon dioxide

Towards a safer, more effective sequestration process

The Future of Natural Gas

Analyzing natural gas's role in a future energy market

Ultra-low-drag hydrodynamics

Decreasing drag at droplet level

The Future of Coal

Analyzing coal's role in a future energy market

Publications

Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions?

January 2018

John Sterman

Stress Transmission and Failure in Disordered Porous Media

August 2017

Roland Pellenq, Franz-Josef Ulm

Impact of Finite-rate Kinetics on Carbon Conversion in a Single-stage Entrained Flow Gasifer with Coal-CO2 Slurry Feed

December 2016

Randall Field, Howard Herzog, Ahmed Ghoniem

News

MIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

Awardees will use grants to advance research in areas including energy storage, renewables expansion modeling, and the chemistry of electrocatalysts.

MIT hosts Saudi-U.S. innovation forum

Gathering focuses on spurring new directions for economic development.

Clean power is shaking up the global geopolitics of energy

The Economist

Energy transitions change the world, writes Henry Tricks. So who will be the winners and losers of the green revolution?

People

Paul Barton Professor

Chemical Engineering

Carlos Batlle Research Scholar

Daniel Blankschtein Professor

Chemical Engineering

Richard Braatz Professor

Chemical Engineering

Sylvia Ceyer Professor

Chemistry

Wai Cheng Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Laurent Demanet Professor

Mathematics

Emre Gençer Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Howard Herzog Executive Director, CCUS center; Senior Research Engineer

MIT Energy Initiative

Jeremiah Johnson Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Heather Kulik Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

John Parsons Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Farrokh Sheibani Postdoctoral Associate

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science

Zachary Smith Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yogesh Surendranath Associate Director, CCUS center; Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Michael Triantafyllou Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering