Energy efficiency experts collaborating on sustainable projects.

Day: November 7, 2019

Research Team Receives $2.4 Million Award to Advance Heat Exchangers

Professor Vinod Narayanan of Mechanical and Aerospace at the STEEL lab with (l to r) Aref Aboud, aerospace major, Adam Strong, applied physics alumni; Kha Ton, mechanical engineering major; Ines Tano, graduate student; Erfan Rasouli, WCEC staff; Caton Mande, WCEC staff; and Zach Delozier, mechincal engineering major; and on September 3, 2019. They received a $2.2 million dollar award. The engineers and graduate students work to reduce energy use in thermal systems in buildings and other industrial processes. The Supercritical carbon dioxide Thermal Energy Enhancement Laboratory (STEEL) group uses experimental and modeling methods to design and characterize compact heat exchangers for high temperature and high pressure power cycles. It was awarded to develop additively-manufactured heat exchangers to generate solar power from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office.

UC Davis and Carnegie Mellon University received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) to develop novel heat exchangers for high temperature and high pressure applications. Such heat exchangers can advance development of high efficiency modular power systems. Heat exchangers transfer heat from one fluid to another […]