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Hybrid Membrane–Adsorption Process for Efficient Direct Air Capture
TS-073184 — Direct air capture (DAC) technologies are essential for meeting global carbon‑reduction goals, yet most current systems remain limited by high energy demand, high cost, and materials with insufficient stability. Traditional solid‑sorbent DAC approaches require significant thermal input for reg…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Ho, W.S. Winston; Han, Yang; Huang, Yi-Chen
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Fuel Cell-Enabled CO2-to-CO Conversion Using Ultra-Selective Membrane Technology
TS-072615 — The Need Efficient carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization and separation remain critical challenges in energy, chemical, and environmental sectors. Existing processes for CO₂ conversion to carbon monoxide (CO) and for separating CO₂/CO mixtures are energy-intensive, costly, and often lack selectivit…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Ho, W.S. Winston; Han, Yang
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

3-Stage Membrane Processes for CO2 Capture from Flue Gases
TS-069650 — The Need The urgent need to mitigate climate change has driven the demand for efficient carbon capture technologies. Current methods often fall short in achieving high capture rates and purity levels, especially for industrial applications. This technology addresses the critical need for a scalable…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Han, Yang; Ho, W.S. Winston
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Enhanced Butanol Production via Engineered Clostridium Strains
TS-069522 — The Need The biofuel and biochemical industries face challenges in efficiently converting fermentation byproducts, such as butyrate, into higher-value products like butanol. Traditional methods often result in the accumulation of waste products, limiting overall process efficiency and economic viab…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Moore, Curtis; Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Amine-Containing Facilitated Transport Membranes For Carbon Dioxide/Nitrogen Separation
TS-041856 — Novel membrane technology utilizing active transport for carbon dioxide/nitrogen separation. The membrane exhibits high permeance and selectivity
Improved separation of by-product carbon dioxide from nitrogen in power plants and industrial exhaust systems would considerably decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The current method of separation that is most often used in industry is amine absorption, however this method is costly, has a large c…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Ho, W.S. Winston; Han, Yang
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Production of Galacto-oligosaccharides from Lactose by Enzyme Immobilized on Cotton Cloth
TS-037689 — Lactose from cheese whey is converted from a dairy byproduct to a useful prebiotic using enzymes immobilized on cotton cloth.
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are a collection of prebiotic fibers made of a chain of galactose sugars of variable length. GOS has been shown to exert some of the most potent and beneficial effects among prebiotic fibers. When added to infant formula, it can change bowel flora to approximate the …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"; Albayrak, Nedim
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Methods for Making Three Dimensional Microfluidic Bioreactor Array
TS-037642 — Design for a three-dimensional microfluidic bioreactor array; device allows for culturing of a variety of cell types without contamination.
Cell culture in a three-dimensional fluidic-flow microenvironment is critical for long-term cell-based assays. Conducting in vitro research offers an accessible, reproducible, and reliable mode of investigation for therapeutic decisions before work is conducted in vivo. However, because of the com…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"; Wen, Yuan
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Methods and Processes for Producing Butyrate Esters from Sugars
TS-037568 — A method and process for producing butyrate esters for use as novel biofuels.These products have a similar energy content to biobutanol, but are easier to produce.
Currently, bioethanol is the major biofuel on the market, but recently butanol has gotten attention for its potential as a transportation fuel. It has many characteristics that make it a better fuel source than ethanol: butanol has 25% more Btu per gallon, it's less evaporative/explosive with …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium Tyrobutyricum for Butanol Production
TS-037555 — A new strain of bacteria that can produce butanol at a high titer for transportation fuel.
Butanol is generally used as an industrial solvent but can also be blended with gasoline and used as transportation fuel. Butanol is commonly produced using fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from biomass, referred to as biobutanol. Biobutanol is produced from fermentation of the same feeds…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Yang, Shang-Tian "ST"; Yu, Mingrui
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

2 Stage Hybrid Membrane Process for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas in Power Plants
TS-037391 — A 2-stage enriching cascade membrane process for capturing CO2 from flue gas in a power plant without air sweep
Post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) provides an option to mitigate CO2 emissions from large stationary sources, followed by compression, transport, and geological sequestration; the captured CO2 may be used for enhanced oil recovery. Because of the system compactness and energy efficiency, CO2-se…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Ho, W.S. Winston; Han, Yang
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

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