Welcome to the
Combustion and Catalysis Laboratory
at Columbia University
The Combustion and Catalysis Lab at Columbia University is directed by Professor Marco J. Castaldi. The main focus is the thermal and catalytic conversion of carbon based material to desired products. For example, municipal solid waste and biomass to synthetic fuels, liquid fuels to hydrogen and greenhouse gases (carbon-based) to fuels.
Recent News
- Lab, Brazilian mine team up for 'green' research.
- Symposium on Heterogenous Catalysis for Environmental and Energy Applications to be held on August.
- Professor Castaldi Launches Partnership with Brazilian Company.
- Naomi Klinghoffer won the ASME MER scholarship.
- WasteEng12 and WTERT 2012 and IT3 are coming.
WasteEng12: Porto, Portugal, September 10 – 13, 2012.
WTERT 2012: New York, NY, October 18-19, 2012
IT3: New Orleans, LA, October 22-24, 2012
- New York Metropolitan Catalysis Society will have the Annual Spring Symposium in March at ExxonMobil. More info
- CBMM and CCL have kicked off a partnership for finding environmental catalytic applications for Nb.
- Dr. Masato R. Nakamura, Postdoctoral Researcher with CCL has been appointed Assistant Professor in City College of Technology (City Tech), CUNY.
- Methane hydrate was grown in one of our smaller hydrate formation reactors and removed at atmospheric pressure and temperature, causing it to dissociate into water and CH4 gas which can be seen off gassing from the hydrate chunk. The hydrate you see in the video is pure methane hydrate and the flame is the combustion of methane as it transitions from the hydrate phase to the gaseous phase.
Past news available on the news page.
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