The Energy and Environmental Engineering (EEE) Section uses a multi-disciplinary, team-based approach in meeting challenges and solving problems relating to the energy and environmental issues facing Illinois and the nation.

The Section's programs involve process and product development; process evaluation, analysis, and economics; and technology development and transfer.

Currently staff are cooperating with several industrial partners to develop technologies for recovering fine coal, burning coal in an oxygen-enriched flue gas, co-firing biomass with coal, removing mercury and carbon dioxide from coal combustion flue gas, developing advanced mercury sorbents, developing advanced coal filtration systems, generating cost-effective tracers for underground natural gas storage, developing energy and environmental applications for carbon nanotubes, and using limestone and dolomites for wet flue gas desulfurization and fluidized-bed combustion.