SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
Author(s): Kurt Lindenthal, Tyler Riggs, Edward Miller, Jaqueline Simon Villacis Advisor(s): Adam Powell Category: Undergraduate Abstract: Magnesium is a very common and highly reactive metal that is primarily found in our oceans, and in metal scrap. Magnesium is commonly used to produce metal alloys, but its reactivity makes it useful for power generation. This project… Read more (UG10) High Energy Density Magnesium-Air Battery for Shipping, Rail and Aviation Electrification and Grid Storage
Author(s): Joelis Velez Diaz Advisor(s): Heather LeClerc, Michael Timko, Alex Maag Category: Undergraduate Abstract: The research domain is chemical engineering, mechanical, and materials engineering, accompanying the focus of guaranteeing everyone inexpensive, trustworthy tenable, and modernized electricity with the use of green waste by converting it to energy creating no contamination. The substantial motivation for this… Read more (UG05) Hydrothermal Liquefaction: Green Waste = Green Energy
Author(s): Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti Advisor(s): Jamal Yagoobi Category: Graduate Abstract: Spray drying is a method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. Ultrasonic nozzles has emerged as a promising technology that offers several advantages over conventional spray drying methods. The use of ultrasonic vibrations for… Read more (GR12) Spray Drying Using Novel Nozzle Design to Improve Droplet Formation for Fine Powders
Author(s): Hanshen Yu Advisor(s): Jamal Yagoobi Category: Graduate Abstract: The smart dryer testbed at Sagamore lab is a highly modulized oven dryer. We aim to reduce energy consumption during drying processes by optimizing how the order of various drying technologies is used, and what parameters to operate on. Slot jet reattachment nozzles (SJR) modules and… Read more (GR09) Preparations for Smart Dryer Optimization to Reduce Energy Consumption
Author(s): Julian Bennett Advisor(s): Michael Timko and Aidin Panahi Category: Graduate Abstract: Municipal Waste Treatment Plants typically collect sewage from our homes and industry and treat them to remove pollutants before dumping them in rivers or oceans, however, there is the possibility to extract energy from the treated sewage via hydrothermal liquefaction to obtain biocrude,… Read more (GR08) Enhanced Waste-to-Energy Conversion Solution for Application in a Municipal Wastewater Plant
Authors: Masoumeh Mohandessi Advisors: Michael Timko Category: Graduate Abstract: Following green chemistry principles and the significant role of catalysts in chemical transformations, in this study, for the first time, Ni@Al2O3 nanoparticles were prepared via a green, a sustainable, and practical approach using the waste management concept. To achieve this goal, the eggplant skin was employed as an… Read more (GR03) Bio-template Fabrication of Nanoporous Ni@Al2O3: Durable Catalyst for Biogas Reforming Reaction
Authors: Zujian Tang, Daniel Sehar Advisors: Adam C. Powell Category: Graduate Abstract: Molten salt electrolysis with a liquid Sn cathode overcomes multiple challenges in reduction of MgO to Mg, particularly the low density and high activity of magnesium metal. It can use carbon anodes in a design very similar to the Hall-Héroult cell, or solid… Read more (GR02) Advances in Magnesium Primary Production by Reactive Cathode Molten Salt Electrolysis with G-METS Distillation
Authors: Alex Sheehey, Samantha Simmons, Federico Vegas, Jackson Wamback Advisors: Professor David Medich and Professor Derren Rosbach Category: First Year Abstract: Our group looked into WPI’s emissions in an attempt to determine where and how WPI could have the greatest reduction on its emissions. Our team determined that WPI’s current, steam-based, gas turbine heating system… Read more (FY01) Geothermal: A Green Solution to Rising Temperatures
