$87 million multi-institutional grant will help Illinois advance bioindustrial manufacturing
By mcomo December 7, 2020
U of I plays a key role in research collaboration funded by the Department of Defense The Department of Defense awarded $87 million over seven years to the BioIndustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem, of which the University of Illinois is a governing member. An $87 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense matched by […]
WPI Receives Combined $4 Million Award from Department of Energy and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
By mcomo September 15, 2020
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a $4 million award from the Department of Energy and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to support innovative advanced manufacturing research and development with a special focus on energy efficiency in industrial drying. WPI will act as project lead and expand its “smart drying” work with colleagues at the University […]
Catalyzing Commercialization: Tiny Optical Fiber Sensors Offer Continuous, In situ Measurement of Humidity
By mcomo April 23, 2020
Humidity is a very important parameter to monitor and control when drying food products, pulp and paper products, chemicals, and other semi-moist, porous materials. It can impact drying optimization and, ultimately, product shelf life. However, humidity sensors can be unrealiable, especially when used in large industrial ovens that dry, bake, or de-water materials. Accuracy and […]
CARD Student News
By mcomo February 14, 2019
Several students involved in the Center for Advanced Research in Drying have recently graduated or are expecting to graduate in 2019: Ozan Kahraman – PhD – Student of Dr. Hao Feng in Food Science (FSHN), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, expects to graduate in August, 2019. Koohyar Pooladvand – PhD – Student of Dr. Cosme Furlong […]
WPI researchers put ‘red mud’ to use turning food waste into biofuel
By mcomo April 27, 2018
WORCESTER – The shopping list for Price Chopper includes unsalted butter, applesauce, cheese, mashed potatoes, rice, canned chicken and green beans. The result? Not a meal, but a bio oil that researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have combined with a new catalyst, called “red mud,” to improve its energy yield. “What it comes down to […]
NASA Selects New Technologies for Flight Tests for Future Space Exploration
By mcomo April 27, 2018
Through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Flight Opportunities program, six promising space technologies have been selected to be tested on commercial low-gravity-simulating aircraft and suborbital rockets. The opportunity to fly on these vehicles helps advance technologies closer to practical use by taking them from a laboratory environment to the real world. “The selected institutions will […]