Environmental and political problems created by our dependence on fossil fuels combined with diminishing petroleum resources are forcing society to search for more efficient renewable sources of energy. The goal of the Huber research group is the design of disruptive technologies for the conversion of biomass, waste plastics and waste resources into fuels and chemicals.
We are developing new generations of catalysts, reactors, spectroscopic and imagining tools, and computational models that are essential for understanding and controlling the chemical transformations we study.
The Huber research group uses a wide range of chemical engineering tools including: heterogeneous catalysis, kinetic modeling, reaction engineering, spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, catalyst synthesis, conceptual process design, transport phenomena, economic analysis, and theoretical chemistry.