Innovative renewable energy technologies for distributed applications
Increasing the renewable energy ratio of communities
Current Research Work
Kinetic Turbines: High kinetic water turbines for distributed small hydro run-of-river applications
Anaerobic Digesters: Modeling of swine anaerobic digesters and the development of low costs distributed systems
Wind Icing: Icing of wind turbine blades to mitigate its effect on wind farms operating in cold weather climates
BioPower and Waste Heat: New biomass and waste heat conversion technologies for distributed generation using advanced cycles tailored for the distributed biopower market
PHEV: Dynamic modeling of PHEV
District Energy Systems: District heating and cooling from biomass, solar and geothermal
Teaching
MECH 4692 Renewable Energy
MECG 7470 Topics in Heat Transfer 2: Renewable Energy