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From left, Scott Meyer, a senior propulsion engineer, helps Cyril Jos, a master's degree student in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, make final adjustments on a 1,000-pound thrust rocket-based cycle engine at Purdue University's Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories. The research is part of Discovery Park's new Energy Center, which will develop economical and environmentally sound energy sources. The rocket in this technology includes a more efficient engine that uses oxygen from the atmosphere instead of oxygen carried on board the vehicle.
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The Energy Center at Purdue University will support research such as a genetically engineered form of yeast developed at Purdue's Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering. This yeast can produce about 40 percent more ethanol from sugars derived from agricultural residues that would otherwise be discarded or used as animal feed. Nancy Ho, a senior research scientist and leader of the lab's molecular genetics group, holds cultures of the new yeast strain (in the Petri dish) and a sample of ethanol.
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From left, Scott Meyer, a senior propulsion engineer, watches while graduate engineering students Zachery Thicksten, Jim Sisco and Jason Wennerberg conduct a test of a 1,000-pound thrust rocket-based combined cycle engine at Purdue University's Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories. The research is part of Discovery Park's new Energy Center, which will develop economical and environmentally sound energy sources. Research at the laboratory includes a more efficient rocket engines that uses oxygen from the atmosphere instead of oxygen carried on board the vehicle. Thicksten, of San Diego, and Wennerberg, of Chicago, are working toward their master's degrees, and Sisco, of Providence, R.I., is working toward a doctoral degree, all in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.
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Kyong-Shin Choi, an assistant professor of chemistry, conducts research in her lab on photo- electrochemical cells that use solar energy to produce hydrogen-based energy. The research is part of an endeavor to develop economical and environmentally benign energy production systems at Discovery Park's new Energy Center at Purdue. The Energy Center is one of four new Discovery Park interdisciplinary research enterprises funded by a $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment.
(Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)
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