2017 “Mechanistic studies of fracture-matrix interactions and shale hydrocarbon development”, Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China.
2017 “Quantifying pore-throat thresholds for oil movement in shales”, State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanisms and Effective Development, Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute of Sinopec (PEPRIS), Beijing, China.
2013 – 2014 “Characterization of shale samples for improved hydrocarbon recovery” (PI), supported from a multinational oil and gas company, Houston, TX.
2010 – 2014 “Integrated Experimental and Modeling Approaches to Studying the Fracture-Matrix Interaction in Gas Recovery from Barnett Shale” (PI), Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.
2010 – 2013″Analyzing and Modeling Chemical Penetration in Building Materials” (PI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.
2010–2012 “Pore connectivity of Hanford sediments and natural rock” (PI; 50 hours Dual FIB/SEM and 150 hours X-ray Tomography, EMSL-PNNL.
2010–2012 “Effects of pore-scale physics on uranium geochemistry in Hanford sediments”, DOE Office of Science’s Subsurface Biogeochemical Research (SBR) program.
2010– 2012 “Characterization of building materials”, Arcadis, U.S., Inc, Durham, NC.
2010 “Evaluation of the subsurface contamination beneath Trailer 5475 at LLNL Livermore Site”, Faculty and Students Team (FaST) Program at LLNL, the Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, DOE’s Office of Science.
2010 Fulbright Senior Specialist grant in Environmental Science, Fulbright Scholar Program, Council for Exchange of International Scholars, U.S. Department of State.
2010 – 2012 “Three Dimensional Scanning of Uranium Distribution in Hanford Sediment Grains” (PI), Subsurface Science Scientific Focus Area, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
2009 – 2012 “Global Change and the Terrestrial Paleoclimate Record from Eastern North America: 600,000 years BP to Present” (co-PI), Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Program, National Science Foundation.
2008 – 2010 “Program Development in Contaminant Hydrogeology and Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry”; start-up funding for new faculty, The University of Texas at Arlington.
2006 – 2007 Hu, Q.H. Conduct elemental analysis of a few selected rock samples collected from the long-term diffusion project from Grimsel Test Site. National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra), Switzerland.
2006 – 2006 Hu, Q.H. (PI), and M. Zavarin. Effects of reducing groundwaters on redox-sensitive radionuclide migration. DOE’s Nevada Operations Office.
2005 – 2006 Hu, Q.H. (PI), M. Zavarin, P.H. Zhao, and T.P. Rose. Characterization of carbonate test debris in support of HST modeling. DOE’s Nevada Operations Office.
2004 – 2007 Steefel, C.I., and Q.H. Hu (co-PI). Rate controls in chemical weathering: A reactive transport approach. Geosciences Program of DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
2004 – 2007 Hu, Q.H. (PI), R.P. Ewing, and L. Tomutsu. Pore connectivity, episodic flow, and unsaturated diffusion in fractured tuff. DOE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
2004 – 2005 Hu, Q.H. (PI), and T.P. Rose. Distribution of long-lived soluble radionuclides in cavity-chimney systems. DOE’s Nevada Operations Office.
2004 – 2005 Hu, Q.H. Microbeam analysis of radionuclide concentrations in nuclear test debris samples. DOE’s Nevada Operations Office.
2004 Hu, Q.H. Purchase and application of a flow-through radionuclide detector. High Return on Investment Pollutant Prevention Program of DOE.
2003 – 2004 Hu, Q.H. (PI), and D.K. Smith. Radionuclide mobility at Nevada Test Site. DOE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
2001 Hu, Q.H. Pore connectivity effects on contaminant transport in rock matrices. Mini-Grant Program of Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
2000 – 2001 Hu, Q.H. (PI), T. Kneafsey, J.S.Y. Wang. Unsaturated diffusion testing and modeling of crushed and fractured tuff. Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project.
