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Bubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double

The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric ... by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ...

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Understanding combustion

generation, electricity, and transportation. “People think of combustion as a dirty technology, but it’s ... currently the most feasible way to produce electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor ... of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ...

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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

used to manufacture products like the lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles, cell ... mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... “Society wants electric-powered vehicles, solar cells for clean energy, but all of this requires ...

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Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment

a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... electron. All we did was offset electricity by thermal transport. This is where I started to understand the ... largest known to exist, and represents a major engineering challenge. Tokamaks have typically used low ...

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Getting the Salt Out

because it requires that electric current flow through the water itself: Salty water conducts electricity ... well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ...

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Better batteries through biology?

drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much ... addition of a small amount of a metal, such as palladium, which greatly increases the electrical ...

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Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust

electrochemical processes — in this case, a process in which chemical reactions release electrical energy, as in ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and her group at MIT have therefore been focusing on ... CCS, those last steps require high temperatures, which are attained using some of the electrical output ...

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Using combustion to make better batteries

replacing fossil fuel combustion for generating electricity and heat, and batteries are replacing the ... internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ...

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The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing

biosciences, chemical engineering, and more. MIT contributions to management and logistics have also helped ... engineering professor and one of the leads of the Initiative for New Manufacturing. Beyond its everyday work, ... AT&T and General Electric, to improve their businesses; period photos show MIT students examining ...

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Student Awards

  Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Beckett Colson, Lampros Tsontzos   AMP Inc. Award ... Award (Excellence in Project-Based Engineering) Lucille Hosford, Jacqueline Sly, Katelyn Wolfenberger   Carl G. ...

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Student Awards

Systems Engineering) Sean M. Cockey   Meredith Kamm Memorial Award (Excellence in a Woman Graduate ...   Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Award (Outstanding Student in the Marine Field) ... in Ocean Engineering) Grace Young   Alfred A.H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Fund Award ...

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Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises

(MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, founding director of MITEI, and ... as hydrogen) flowing alongside electricity, and removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2). ...

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MIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape

that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in ... MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s ... “meticulous emergency planning procedures.” The resiliency of the electric grid under greatly increased demand ...

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Cooling buildings worldwide

running a chiller to get water that cold takes a lot of electricity — and the water is far colder than ... pre-cooled at night, when electricity is cheap and the outside air is cool. But the dehumidification process ... and Mechanical Engineering. Lienhard is Norford’s colleague at the Center for Environmental Sensing ...

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Jani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars

a senior pursuing a double major in physics and electrical engineering and computer science. At MIT, Bent ... Adcock from Seattle, Washington, is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in computer ... Society of Women Engineers. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Adcock will pursue a PhD in computational and ...

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SENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing

Phillip “Donnie” Keathley and Professor Karl Berggren from the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Engineering. “As we work to grow SENSE.nano’s research footing and to attract partners, it is encouraging to ... know that so much important research — in sensors; sensor systems; and sensor science, engineering — is ...

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New Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology

materials engineering at the Masdar Institute, a graduate-level engineering university in the United Arab ... project, which is aimed at developing a solar-powered combined electrical power plant and cooling system. ... research and development capabilities in Abu Dhabi. Nicholas X. Fang, professor of mechanical engineering ...

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