Past Projects	PIs	Lead site
Drying of Moist Porous Media with Airborne Ultrasound and Integrated Dehydration Mechanisms	Yagoobi	WPI
Enhanced Packaging for Temperature-Sensitive Product Transport Using Phase Change Materials	Yagoobi	WPI
Fundamental Understating of Ultrasonic Atomization of Moisture Present in Porous Materials	Yagoobi	WPI
Atmospheric Plasma Pretreatments for Enhanced Drying	Wang	UIUC
Dehydration of Slurry Fluids Using Contact and Non-Contact Ultrasonic Wave Technology	Yagoobi	WPI
In-Situ Raman Spectroscopy with Self-Cleaning Fiber Probe for Chemical Sensing and Crystallization Monitoring in Drying	Liu	WPI
CFD Simulation of the Onset of Ultrasonic Atomization and Resultant Droplet Size	Yagoobi	WPI
Microstructural Characterization of Foodstuffs as a Function of Drying Parameters	Pawan Takhar	UIUC
Enhancement of Drying Moist Porous Media with Phase Change Material	Yagoobi	WPI
Improving Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint of Dryers by Removing Moisture from Exhaust with Novel Methods	Yagoobi/ Claridge	WPI
An Investigation of the Role of Area, Scale and Hierarchical Surface Topography in Wetting and Drying of Stochastically Patterned Surfaces	Daniello/Brown	WPI
Exploring Infrared Sensor for Real-Time Analysis of Products During Spray Drying	Lee/Irudayaraj	UIUC
Determining Product Morphology and Permeability of Foods During Drying Using Micro CT Scanning and Pore Scale Modeling	Takhar	UIUC
Image-based Physics-constrained Machine Learning for Process Optimization and Design in Paper Drying Systems	Shao/Cheng	UIUC/WPI
Tip-Based Optical Fiber Sensor for Continuous, In-Situ Measurements of Trapped Moisture	Liu	WPI
Infrared Sensors for Optimization of Drying Food Materials	Lee	UIUC
Spray Drying Using Novel Nozzle Design to Improve Droplet Formation for Fine Powders	Lee/Yagoobi	UIUC/WPI
Ultrasonic Drying of Vegetable Proteins	Feng	UIUC
Infrared Sensors for Optimization of Drying Food Materials	Lee	UIUC
Image-Based Physics-Constrained Machine Learning for Process Optimization and Design in Paper Drying Systems	Shao/Cheng	WPI/UIUC
Determining Product Morphology and Permeability of Foods During Drying Using Micro CT Scanning and Pore Scale Modeling	Takhar	UIUC
Enhancement of Drying Rate of Moist Porous Media with Electric Field	Yagoobi	WPI
An Integrated Multi-Scale Modeling and Sensors-Based Approach to Study Strain and Stresses in Foods Undergoing Glass Transition During Drying	Liu/Takhar	WPI/UIUC
Ultrasound-Mediated Ethanol Dewatering/Dehydration	Feng	UIUC
Smart Drying Enabled by Multi-Source Data Fusion and Machine Learning	Shao/Narra	UIUC/WPI
Removal of Water Trapped Inside a Single Cellulose Fiber	Yagoobi	WPI
Ultrasonic Non-Thermal Drying of Wet Bio-Polymeric Materials	Feng	UIUC
Wireless Passive MEMS Sensor for in situ Continuous Temperature and Moisture Sensing	Liu	UIUC
Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer with Innovative Impinging Jet Nozzles	Yagoobi	WPI
FSMA Validation of Low Moisture Food Undergoing Heating and Drying	Feng	UIUC
Solving Coupled Non-Fickian Moisture Transport and QualityKinetics Model for Improving the Quality and Nutritional Attributes of Selected Fruits and Vegetables during Drying	Takhar	UIUC
Fundamental Understanding of Rapid Air Drying of Paper Tissues	Tilley/Yagoobi	WPI
Enhancement of Municipal Wastewater Biosolids Drying through Interfacial Energy Modifying Amendments to Promote Uniform Agglomeration	Bergendahl	WPI
Reducing Water Use in Corn Ethanol Process by Efficient High Solids Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation	Singh	UIUC
Multi-Channel Drying Platform for Process Validation and Optimization	Feng	UIUC
Optical Nondestructive Testing Augmented by MEMS and Fiber-optic Sensors	Furlong	WPI
Spray Drying of Hygroscopic Materials Using an Encapsulation Strategy Through Three-fluid Nozzle	Lee	UIUC