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Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping
Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and others ... marine scrubber is a huge, metal, vertical tank installed in a ship’s exhaust stack, above the engines ... exhaust gases as they exit the engines. The seawater interacts with sulfur dioxide in the exhaust, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-scrubbers-best-available-option-bulk-maritime-shippingQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
grow millions of times faster than plants and dozens of times faster than microalgae. Engineering these ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... Desiree Plata, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasData-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
team, including MIT Mechanical Engineering graduate student Bianca Champenois, MIT Sea Grant research ... scientist Carolina Bastidas, Northeastern University student Beck LaBash, and MIT Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-modeling-4d-ocean-and-coastal-acidification-massachusetts-and-cape-cod-baysThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity by Alissa Mallinson Vast ... unsinkable Titanic. The mysteries of the oceans’ depths and what lies beneath offer exciting challenges for engineers ... Professor of Marine Technology and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering Professor Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ... Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... International Journal of Robotics Research. Seeing a shape in the dots The engineering of such an inspection is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesHarnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
gap. Energy Science and Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Energy Security Impact Home Research Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-0Water is Life
in-the-field research. Mechanics Design and Manufacturing Energy Science and Engineering Health Environment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-lifeTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishFive from MIT earn Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
and one postdoc from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have been awarded ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. He plans to use the Simons award to ... used to investigate the microorganisms, causing Lambert and his colleagues to engineer an in situ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-earn-simons-foundation-postdoctoral-fellowships-marine-microbial-ecologyTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockNew polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
engineers have flipped the picture of the standard polymer insulator, by fabricating thin polymer films that ... Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and a senior co-author on the paper. “Our bigger vision is, ... engineered polyethylene films have such an unusually high thermal conductivity, the team conducted X-ray ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-polymer-films-conduct-heat-instead-trapping-itScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... that have a lasting impact,” explains Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty ... says. Monday, October 21, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... and research being conducted by Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsBianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries
Mechanical engineering PhD student looks at geophysical systems of land, air, and water to track ... in mechanical engineering, uses these data points to model conditions affecting acidity, a growing ... Program, which applies MIT research and engineering to ocean-related challenges, Champenois is developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bianca-champenois-sm-%E2%80%9922-helps-model-future-coastal-industriesDelivering life-saving oxygen
recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ... father Alexander Slocum Sr., Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... original fields of study. A mechanical engineer who was born and educated in England, he first came to the ... the invitation of Richard Soderberg, then the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Soon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... Engineering in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ... the engineering process. Usually if you have more area, bigger heat exchangers, more membrane area, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; in collaboration with TieJun Zhang and his ...
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