Faculty: Elisa H. Barney Smith, 

Partners: Joshua Kane, William Smith

Students: Rahul Reddy Kancherla

Funding:

• DOE-INL Doctoral Fellowship

 This research mainly focuses on developing sensing techniques using 3D X-ray imaging to study quality factors like material composition, ash content and moisture content which affect the conversion efficiency, equipment wear, and product yield in the bioethanol production in a real-time or near real-time basis.

Publications:

• Rahul Reddy Kancharla, Rapid, Reliable Tissue Fractionation Algorithm for Commercial Scale Biorefineries, Doctoral Dissertation, December 2022.

• Rahul Reddy Kancharla, William A Smith, Josh L Klinger, Elisa Barney Smith, “Anatomical Fraction segmentation in the biomass bales,” AIChe, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2020

Faculty: Elisa H. Barney Smith, Peter Müllner

Partners: Joshua Kane, William Smith

Students: Adrian Rothenbuhler

This research mainly focuses on developing an imaging technique to find boundaries between regions in material samples with different properties.

Publications:

• Adrian Rothenbuhler, Elisa H. Barney Smith, Peter Müllner, “Application of image processing to track twin boundary motion in magnetic shape memory alloys,” Proc. SPIE Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications V, Vol. 8300. San Jose, CA, Jan 2012. Paper 8300-0A