Stony Brook Receives $2.5 Million DOE Grant for Transformational Energy Technology
Friday, July 10, 2015 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A Stony Brook University research team has been awarded $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a system that condenses water vapor from power plants in order to provide supplemental cooling for the plant and reduce water use. Led by Professor Jon Longtin, PhD, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, the goal of the research is to condense water out of flue gas to provide additional cooling that may enable power plants to be built in dry and land-locked areas, not located near a large body of water, at a time when using open bodies of water for cooling has become a national and global concern