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Saad Jajja's paper on using IR thermography to study supercritical heat transfer was recently published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Congratulations to Ethan Matty on the successful presentation of his MS thesis on condensation of zeotropic mixtures in horizontal microfin tubes.

Ethan Matty presented a conference paper virtually on microfin condensation at the 2020(one) Herrick Conferences at Purdue.

Congratulations to Genevieve Gaudin on the successful presentation of her MS project on the use of fiber optic temperature sensors in additively manufactured metal heat exchangers. She will be joining Blue Orgin after graduation. We wish her the best of luck!

Congratulations to Paul Armatis for the publication of his work on chemical heat pumps for industrial process heat in the International Journal of Energy Research.

The TEST lab is leading a collaborative effort to explore more efficient ways to dry hops, sponsored by CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute.

Congratulations to Kathy HU for participating in the spring 2021 RAPID intern program working on process intensification of hydrogen production.

Congratulations to Kristen Travers on the successful presentation of her BS Honors thesis on high flux sCO2 cooling! She will start a position at Boeing after graduation.

Congratulations to Gen Li on the successful presentation of his MS project on supercritical Brayton cycles using mixtures as the working fluid. We wish him the best of luck in what comes next!

Congratulations to Thomas Tolley for the publication of a paper in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy on process intensification of the water-gas shift reaction using a non-adiabatic microreactor.

Congratulations to Tabeel Jacob for the successful defense of his PhD! He will join the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the International Energy Analysis Department after graduation.

The TEST lab will be working with the Dr. Joshua Gess and the EHT at OSU on a recently awarded ARPA-E project led by Raytheon Technologies Research Center on using sCO2 to enable electrification of commercial aircraft.

Congratulations to Saad Jajja for the successful defense of his PhD! He will be joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Building Equipment Technologies Group.

Congrats to Tabeel Jacob for the publication of his paper on saturated and superheated condensation of new lower global warming refrigerant R454C in ASHRAE Science and Technology for the Built Environment

Congrats to Tabeel Jacob for his presentation at the IIR Rankine 2020 conference on alternative working fluids for Organic Rankine cycles.

Tabeel Jacob presented a paper in the Research Summit at the 20202 ASHRAE Virtual Conference on superheated condensation of lower GWP mixtures.

Congrats to Thomas Tolley for the successful defense of his MS thesis. He will join a cooling startup, Treau, in the bay area.

Two papers and presentations on technology for process intensification of hydrogen production by Davis Chamorro and Thomas Tolley were published in the ASTFE 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference Special Collection.

Congratulations to Davis Chamorro for the successful defense of his MS thesis. Upon graduation, he will be joining Intel in the Portland area.

Congrats to Tabeel Jacob for the acceptance of his second paper on condensation of low GWP refrigerants in the International Journal of Refrigeration.

Dr. Fronk and the lab received an NSF CAREER award to continue our work on near-critical heat transfer.

Congrats to Kathy Hu for winning the Oregon ASHRAE video competition and a trip to the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Orlando. See her video here!

Saad Jajja had a nice presentation on his sCO2 research at the 2nd JSME/KSME/ASTFE Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference in Maui.

Congrats to Kenta Noma for successfully presenting his MS project on Brayton cycles using supercritical mixtures. Best of luck Kenta!

Saad Jajja and Jessa Sequeira's paper on supercritical carbon dioxide heat transfer was published in Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science.

Congratulations to faculty research assistant Hank Pratte, who has accepted a full time position at NuScale Power!

Dr. Fronk presented OSU's ongoing work on high temperature solar thermal devices at the 3rd European Conference on Supercritical CO2 Power Systems in Paris, France.

Congratulations to undergraduate assistant Thad Rhan, who has accepted a position to pursue a PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Florida!

Saroj Karki's paper on the feasibility for solar thermal process heating in small/mid-sized industries was published in Applied Energy.

Dr. Fronk presented Saad Jajja and Jessa Sequira's work on sCO2 heat transfer at the 2019 ASHRAE Annual Conference in Kansas City.

Paul Armatis presented his work on chemical heat pumps in integrated nuclear energy systems at the 2019 ANS Annual Meeting in Minnesota.

Congrats to Tabeel Jacob for placing 3rd in the School of MIME Science Communication Contest.

Tabeel Jacobs's paper on mixture condensation was published in International Journal of Refrigeration

Congrats to Tabeel Jacob for receiving an ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid award for his work in refrigerant mixture condensation!

Saad Jajja, Kenta Noma, Tabeel Jacob, and Ethan Matty each presented at the 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference in Las Vegas.

Tabeel Jacob is off to intern at Oak Ridge National Lab for six months in the Building Technology Research and Integration Center. He will return to Corvallis in July.

Saad Jajja was awarded a School of MIME Ph.D. Teaching Fellowship. He will teach ME 311, Introduction to Thermal-Fluids Sciences

Kristen Travers was awarded a School of MIME Undergraduate Research Experience Award for her work in supercritical CO₂.

Ahmad Bukshaisha's paper on membrane heat pumps systems was published in International Journal of Refrigeration

Saroj Karki's paper on solar/gas hybrid water heating systems was published in Applied Thermal Engineering.

A chapter on supercritical CO₂ solar thermal systems co-authored by Dr. Fronk was published in Advances in Solar Energy Research.

Saad Jajja's paper on supercritical carbon dioxide heat transfer was published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Congrats to Saad Jajja for his great presentation at the 2018 Micro and Nano Flows Conference hosted at Georgia Tech.

Connor Dokken's paper heat sink design using micro-genetic algorithms was published in Applied Thermal Engineering.

Saroj Karki, Michael Polander, Tabeel Jacob and Dr. Fronk presented several papers at the Purdue Herrick Conferences.

Congrats to Saroj Karki for for successfully defending his M.S. thesis. He will start a job at Energy and Resource Solutions.

Congrats to Michael Polander for for successfully defending his M.S. thesis. He will start an internship at Hewlett Packard.

Congrats to Ahmad Bukshaisha for for successfully defending his M.S. thesis. He will return to Qatar to start his career.

Matthew Hyder's paper on micro-pin concentrated solar thermal receivers was published in Solar Energy.

Michael VanderPutten and Tabeel Jacobs's paper on condensation was published in International Journal of Refrigeration

Dr. Fronk was featured in the OSU School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering faculty spotlight.