Marc Compere's Technical Pursuits

https://sites.google.com/site/comperem/home/marc-comperes-research-and-technical-pursuits/Readme.txt?attredirects=0&d=1Current technical pursuits are mostly through student competitions:

• The EPA's P3 Awards: The P3 stands for People, Planet and Prosperity. We have won three phase I awards from the EPS for the P3 program. Dr. Yan Tang is the PI and co-contributor of

  • The 2011 EPA P3 Phase I project was a solar powered water purification backpack for disaster relief scenarios. This won the U.S. Army's NetZero Award for Water, won the EPA's Student's Choice Award, and won the $90k phase II award for continued development. This effort has graduate students developing the device with intent to transfer technology to a spin-off company. Dr. Yan Tang was the PI on these EPA wins.

• • The 2013 EPA P3 Phase I project is to design and build a solar powered absorption chiller device. The intent is to create a chiller unit for air conditioning or refrigeration that is driven only by heat from the sun. Dr. Yan Tang is the PI on this EPA win.

  • The facebook page is the best place to see our latest and greatest work: Clean Energy Club at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

• Clean Water:

  • Community Water system (CWS) design through Project Haiti. Project Haiti is a movement of students designing and installing solar-powered community water systems.

  • HON350, Global Issues in Water Supply and Demand

    • This is a survey course of water as the new high-value commodity

    • Topics include: gaining a global perspective, water borne pathogens, purification methods, drinking water quality standards, water-energy nexus, water-food nexus, and the water-climate nexus

    • The HON350 list of topics graphically:

• • ME595J, Practicum in Water Purification

    • This course is hands-on approach to learning about water purification

    • Topics include water-borne pathogens classification, petri-dish morphology from local samples, a survey of pathogen removal and disinfection methods, and hands-on work with 4 different water purifiers in the laboratory, including the Project Haiti solar PV power system testing

• Outdoor solar collector field: During the 2012/2013 academic year the Clean Energy System's lab installed a 16kW outdoor thermal collector field. It is a research facility with four 4-kW parabolic trough collectors with single-axis tracking system. This is used to collect heat from the sun to run thermally driven processes, namely the EPA project's absorption chiller units. Dr. Sandra Boetcher operates the collector field. Our students at the 16kW thermal collector field:

• EcoCAR2: Plugging Into The Future: The Embry-Riddle EcoEagle's Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) development and integration program through EcoCAR2. The Embry-Riddle EcoCAR 2 power system architecture is a series PHEV diesel designed for use with B20 biodiesel. Some of our most interesting research efforts on the EcoCAR2 program are:

  • A hybrid vehicle Energy Storage System (ESS) cooling system design using a unique phase-change material. This system reduces weight and parasitic losses by reducing the cooling pump's ON-time while maintaining the ESS temperatures within the designed temperature range.

  • Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) control system design. This is a diesel after-treatment research effort to achieve high performance diesel emissions reduction on the EcoCAR vehicle.

Marc Compere

Last updated: 24 May 2015