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WHAT IS CHEPS?

The Carbon-Free H2 Production and Storage project, or CHEPS for short, is one of five ambitious Big Idea Challenge projects at the University of Oklahoma. CHEPS received seed funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships at OU to tackle large, impactful problems that affect our state and the nation. Big Idea Challenges require the convergence of expertise from different disciplines.

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2023 CHEPS RESULTS

As we look back in these past two years, the CHEPS team has generated a little over $9M dollars in federal funding – including a $4 million NSF grant to four CHEPS members, two DOE grants of about $750K each, and

an NSF grant through the Growing Convergence Research program

for $3.6 million over five years.

 

WHAT WE DO

Our project is about finding green and affordable ways to produce energy using socially just, community-centered approaches to knowledge production. In the United States, and in Oklahoma in particular, we have a lot of natural gas that can be utilized to produce hydrogen. We want to produce hydrogen without producing CO2 and then to develop safe and economically feasible technologies for storage and transportation of H2. Most importantly, we aim to develop the ground-breaking technologies that are deeply informed by the needs and wants of our communities.

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“We live in Oklahoma, where we have natural gas as a raw material for hydrogen production, where we are connected to the rest of the country with an excellent network of pipelines to transport H2, and where we have a great team of collaborators and the support of the University of Oklahoma. There is no better fit than OU for a project of this magnitude.”

Dimitrios Papavassiliou, Ph.D.
CHEPS Principal Investigator

LET'S CONNECT

Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering
Sarkeys Energy Center
100 East Boyd Street, T-301
Norman, OK 73019

(405) 325-5811

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