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Christopher Newton
A Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy System
Graduated: Spring 2007
Christopher Newton currently serves as VP of Epiphany Solar Water Systems; developing solar water purification techniques. He obtained his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Florida State University in 2007. His research was in the field of concentrated solar thermal energy systems. After graduation, Mr. Newton worked as an aerospace engineer for IES, based out of San Diego, CA, where his work focused on the design, analysis, and production of aerospace technologies and alternative energy systems. His work included development, analysis, and testing of GH2/GO2 Catalytic Thrusters, Zero-G Liquid Acquisition Devices, and Slosh and Anti-Vortex Baffles. R&D endeavors included contracts with NASA, Office of Naval Research, Space Exploration Technologies, Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, Pratt and Whitney, and Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Matt Merrill
Water Electrolysis at the Thermodynamic Limit
Graduated: Fall 2007
Matt is an electrochemist who works with engineers and with sustainable electrolysis systems for the production of hydrogen fuel or electricity. His dissertation work at Florida State consisted of designing metal oxide water electrolysis catalysts after Photosystem II so that electrons can be transferred at ~ideal efficiency for hydrogen fuel and oxygen gas production. He says he is grateful for the guidance he received from Anjaneyulu Krothapalli and Brent Greska because practically and economically solving vital energy problems through collaborative efforts is highly rewarding. His present position at Penn State under Bruce Logan involves microbial electrolysis and fuel cells for cleaning and recovering energy from wastewaters in the form of hydrogen fuel or electricity. He's having fun because in addition to playing with alloyed and microbial catalysts, he's learned how to improve and model electrode and reactor designs. He enjoys the interdisciplinary collaborations that result from interfacing electrochemistry with engineering because he has been able to tackle some critical problems such as how to improve proton transfer efficiency through solid polymer electrolytes when protons are scarce and constructing advanced molecular dynamics models for electrocatalytic reactions.
Matt Anderson
Computer Simulation of a Solar Dish Power System for
Sustainable Rural Development
Graduated: Fall 2007
Matthew Anderson received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. For his Master’s Thesis Project at KTH, he spent the fall of 2007 working at the Energy and Sustainability Center and contributed to the Solar Thermal Tri-Generation System creating a computer model describing the solar to thermal energy transfer within the system.
In the Spring of 2008 Matthew began working at Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas (www.aries.com.es), a Spanish engineering firm specializing in the engineering and development of utility scale renewable energy systems. Within Aries he has created performance models for their solar parabolic trough projects currently under construction in Spain and is currently working in the business development department for the North America Region.
Martin Bengtsson
Modeling and Simulation of a Solar Powered Energy
Efficient Building
Graduated: Spring 2008
Martin Bengtsson worked on the OGZEB team the fall of 2007 designing a mathematical model of the house in the software TRNsys and this work resulted in his Master Thesis which was presented at ESC December 2007. Martin then graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology, department of energy technology, in Stockholm Sweden the spring of 2008.
Since 2008, Martin has entered the employment of an energy and HVAC company in Stockholm, working with building energy analysis and performance, system design for heat pump installations and other energy efficient technologies for the real estate sector.
If you want to get in contact with Martin, e-mail him at mbengt@kth.se.
Peter DeRoche
A Microjet-Based Reactant Delivery Method for PEM Fuel
Cells
Graduated: Summer 2008
Justin Kramer
Sustainable Building Systems
Hydrogen Combustion: Characteristics and Methods for
System Application
Graduated: Fall 2008
John Dascomb
Low-Cost Concentrating Solar Collector for Steam
Generation
Graduated: Spring 2009
