**The Fuel Science Program No Longer Accepts New Students.**
This web site is for the use of graduate students who were enrolled in the Fuel Science program before its migration into the current EME graduate program in Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering.

The Fuel Science specialty at Penn State provides advanced knowledge and research opportunities in the characterization and use of fuels, including their conversion to other fuels and to other materials. Special facilities exist for research in areas of:

• combustion of fuels
• coal ash behavior
• coal pyrolysis
• catalysis
• fluidized-bed combustion
• coal and carbon characterization
• carbonization
• coal gasification and liquefaction
• activated carbon preparation and properties
• air and water pollution control
  
• electrochemistry and fuel cells

Research projects that are likely to be available include studies of popular topics such as air pollution prevention and control, advanced carbon-based materials, fullerenes (buckyballs), nanotechnology, materials engineering and catalysis. Well-instrumented research facilities exist for investigation of the organic geochemistry of plant-derived sediments, chemical and physical characteristics of coals, chemistry and physics of combustion phenomena, flame dynamics in practical combustion systems, industrial fuel efficiency, fundamentals of coal gasification and liquefaction, chemistry and physics of carbon and graphite materials, activated carbon preparation and characterization, and heterogeneous catalysis.

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