July 1, 2021 Recent HNEI Publications (January – June 2021)Below is the list of peer-review papers published by HNEI faculty and staff from January to June 2021. HNEI researchers are notated with an asterisk after their name.2021, G. Mohan*, R.L. Johnson*, J. Yu*, Conversion of...
June 3, 2021 HNEI Completes Study and Report on Renewable Natural Gas Resource AssessmentThe HNEI research team of Sharon Chan, Robert Williams, and Scott Turn, completed an assessment of biorenewable resources and their potential for renewable natural gas (RNG) production in Hawai‘i. Funded under the Energy Systems Development Special...
May 12, 2021 UH Team Wins DOE & NOAA Ocean Observing Prize: Design ContestUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Team Hālona, advised by HNEI researchers, was selected as one of seven winners in the joint U.S. Department of Energy and NOAA Ocean Observing Prize: Design Contest. Their concept for an...
April 8, 2021 HNEI’s Environmental Sensor Array Awarded U.S. PatentDeveloped by HNEI researchers Mitch Ewan and Scott Higgins, a “smart” system called an Environmental Sensor Array enhances the longevity and performance of fuel cells. This system senses and reacts to changing air quality in real...
January 14, 2021 HNEI Partners with DOE & NREL to Provide Technical Assistance on EITPP ProjectsHNEI was selected in a competitive solicitation as an initial partner of U.S. DOE’s Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to support energy system planning and project identification in island and remote communities. Beginning in December...
January 1, 2021 Recent HNEI Publications (July – December 2020)Below is the list of peer-review papers published by HNEI faculty and staff from July to December 2020. HNEI researchers are notated with an asterisk after their name.2020, M. Elliott, L.G. Swan, M. Dubarry*, G. Baure,...
October 19, 2020 HNEI-Led International Team Reaches 3rd Stage of DOE Waves to Water CompetitionAn HNEI-led team, in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Uppsala University (Sweden), has been selected among the winners in the first two stages of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Waves...
October 6, 2020 HNEI Advises to Improve Ventilation in Recent Journal PublicationA team led by HNEI was published in the October 2020 volume of the journal Developments in the Built Environment, on the significance of user awareness and training when operating a mixed-mode building that is designed...
September 1, 2020 HNEI Researcher Publishes 1st Ever Synthetic Training Datasets for AI Diagnosis of Li-ion BatteriesHNEI Assistant Researcher Matthieu Dubarry and his team published a new study in the Journal of Power Sources. In this, they proposed, for the first time, synthetic training datasets for artificial intelligence lithium ion diagnosis and...
July 30, 2020 UH Team Wins U.S. DOE 2020 Marine Energy Collegiate CompetitionA team from the University of Hawai‘i took first place against 14 other teams in the recently concluded Marine Energy Collegiate Competition. The competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technology Office and...
