Research Initiatives
To achieve its ambitious mission, the Andlinger Center is advancing strategic research initiatives that leverage the unique interdisciplinary expertise of Princeton faculty to address the most pressing energy and environmental challenges of our time.
Convergent research on these complex problems will leverage our community’s broad expertise and be advanced through three complementary, cross-cutting themes: Enabling Technologies, Systems Modeling, and Policy and Decision Making.
Renewable Energy Systems
Renewable Energy Systems will develop improved approaches to generate and transition to clean electrical power and enable effective deployment at scale.
Industrial Decarbonization
Industrial Decarbonization will develop approaches for process electrification and energy efficiency improvements to decarbonize heavy industry in materials, chemicals, and fuels.
Decarbonizing Buildings and Transportation
Decarbonizing Buildings and Transportation aims to decrease the carbon intensity of buildings and transportation systems by developing and deploying novel materials, technologies, and processes.
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage aims to develop new materials and systems that improve the efficiency and practicability of carbon dioxide capture, valorization, and sequestration.
The Water-Energy-Resource Nexus
The Water-Energy-Resource Nexus aims to reduce the energy and resource intensity of water and wastewater treatment, recover energy and valuable resources from process waste, and develop technologies for effective pollution remediation.
Climate Resilience Engineering
Climate Resilience Engineering will create effective strategies for making infrastructure and energy systems more resilient to climate risks and mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health and wellbeing.