What if unused resources could power sustainable energy?
6/6/19
Penn State environmental engineer Bruce Logan is turning local water resources into innovative energy sources, so one day communities can power themselves sustainably.
Bruce Logan
Bruce Logan
Clean water, cleaner energy: Penn State powering renewable energy technologies
6/4/19
Among renewable sources of energy, humans have long recognized the power of water. At the places where freshwater and saltwater meet, for example, there are vast amounts of potential energy to be tapped — enough, in theory, to supply 40 percent of global electricity needs. The process is called salinity gradient energy, and it’s a new area of focus for environmental engineer Bruce Logan. But it’s also a continuation of the work he’s been doing at Penn State for 20 years.
Environmental engineering graduate student 'a source of inspiration' for family
5/14/19
Emmanuel Fonseca, a doctoral student in environmental engineering at Penn State, is the first of his family to attend college and strives to be an inspiration to his younger siblings through his own successes.
Re-Imagining Energy: Generating Energy
11/9/18
Penn State researchers are developing a range of innovative technologies to harvest the sustainable energy of natural processes to power our future. Part one of a five-part series.
Civil engineering professor named a Thomson Reuters 'Highly Cited Researcher'
2/6/17
Bruce Logan, Kappe Professor of Engineering and Evan Pugh University Professor, has been named to the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list for 2016. This is the third year in a row Logan has received this honor.
Logan named distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University in China
4/27/16
Bruce Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and Evan Pugh University Professor in the College of Engineering at Penn State, has recently been named a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Engineering professors named to Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers list
12/16/15
Bruce Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and Evan Pugh University Professor, and Chao-Yang Wang, William E. Diefenderfer Chair of Mechanical Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and materials engineering, were recently named to Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2015 list.
Researchers obtain patent for new process that converts waste heat into hydrogen
10/29/15
Researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State have discovered an effective method to convert waste heat into hydrogen gas without the use of fossil fuels.
Bruce Logan to receive 2016 American Chemical Society award
8/31/15
Bruce Logan, Kappe and Evan Pugh Professor of Environmental Engineering, has recently been named the 2016 recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology.
Professor Bruce Logan reaches significant milestone on Google Scholar
7/9/15
Bruce Logan, Kappe and Evan Pugh Professor of Environmental Engineering, reached a career milestone recently by hitting 100 on the Google Scholar h-index.
Low-grade waste heat regenerates ammonia battery
12/3/14
An efficient method to harvest low-grade waste heat as electricity may be possible using reversible ammonia batteries, according to Penn State engineers.
Tiny power generator runs on spit
4/3/14
Saliva-powered micro-sized microbial fuel cells can produce minute amounts of energy sufficient to run on-chip applications, according to an international team of engineers.
Seven faculty named Fellows of AAAS
11/25/13
Seven Penn State faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Logan named deputy editor of new environmental journal
5/8/13
Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and the Stan and Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, has been named the inaugural deputy editor of the newly launched Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) Letters journal.
Microbes make 'clean' methane
7/25/12
Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas could become an important source of renewable energy, according to scientists from Stanford and Penn State universities.
Researchers at both universities are raising colonies of microorganisms -- methanogens -- with the remarkable ability to turn electrical energy into pure methane, the key ingredient in natural gas