The group's emphasis on energy and the environment focuses on several broad areas:

• Waste remediation and treatment
• Fossil fuel conversion and upgrading
• Renewable biomass and geothermal energy recovery
• Clean processing and green chemistry

• Oxidation and hydrolysis of model compounds in supercritical water
• Chemistry and transport in hydrothermal flames
• Conversion of biomass into fuels and energy under hydrothermal conditions
• Extraction and upgrading of heavy oils in hydrothermal and supercritical water and carbon dioxide

• Organic synthesis in multiphasic systems of supercritical CO₂ / CO₂-expanded liquids
• Particle milling and encapsulation in supercritical CO₂ mixtures
• Acoustically stimulated reactions in biphasic CO₂ / H₂O media
• Salt nucleation and crystallization in supercritical water

• Thermodynamic modeling and simulation of gas hydrates
• Electrochemical partitioning of metals from chromated copper arsenate solutions
• Advanced methods of rock drilling using thermal spallation and fusion
• Property method accuracy using volumetric equations of state
• Geothermal energy recovery modeling and diagnostics
• Life-cycle assessment of energy technologies