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Research

Projects

Solar fuels

• Ceria-based oxide substrates to split H₂O and CO₂
• CO₂ and H₂O splitting using ferrite-based oxides
• H₂O and CO₂ splitting via oxidation of Zn vapor in the 2^nd step of the Zn/ZnO solar thermochemical cycle
• Hydrolysis of Zn nanoparticles in the metal redox ZnO/Zn cycle to split H₂O
• Solar thermal gasification of carbonaceous materials
• SUNgas: Thermochemical gasification of biomass using concentrated solar energy

Distributed solar building technologies

• Advanced energy efficient residential roof system
• Natural convection in metal foams
• Nucleation, growth and removal of calcium carbonate "scale" on polymers
• Polymer heat exchangers
• Residential solar energy storage using liquid desiccants
• Temperature control of building integrated PV
• Thermal storage using encapsulated phase change material in a porous media matrix

Radiative transfer and properties

• Spectroscopic characterization of radiative transfer phenomena
• Transient radiative heat transfer in participating media

Computational tools and libraries

• Fortran Scientific Library (FSL) — A general-purpose numerical library
• Radiative Transfer Library (RTL) — A numerical library for computational radiative transfer

 

Updates

2009 Luke Venstrom is recipient of the NSF graduate student award

2009 Wojciech Lipiński joined the Solar Energy Laboratory