Tag: Engineering

Can energy storage and generation be made more efficient? Mark Anderson hopes to find out

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Dr. Mark Anderson and the thermal hydraulics laboratory leverage heat transfer and fluid dynamics to develop engineering solutions that make energy production systems more efficient. Systems of energy production primarily rely on first generating heat and subsequently harnessing this heat to drive processes that range from powering an electrical grid to driving a car. Heat generation necessarily consumes natural resources so minimizing waste generated during energy production is essential to making energy accessible, affordable, and enduring.

UW–Madison engineering alum helps to light the way for renewable energy

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Josh Cook, UW–Madison Geological Engineering class of 2015, became interested in renewable energy while participating in a summer intensive Mandarin language program in China. He lived in Tianjin, a city of over 15 million people, and also had the chance to visit Beijing and Shanghai, each of which has over 20 million residents. “These cities …

Researcher follows dairy cows’ carbon footprints from barn to field

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A study by UW–Madison dairy scientists, engineers, and agronomists shows how a cow’s breed and forage consumption affect the greenhouse gases generated by her gut and her manure. Read the full article on the UW–Madison news page here.

CEES Students Become Leaders in Energy Independence

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Alex Wendricks, a senior studying Agriculture and Applied Economics, always possessed a passion for renewable energy technologies. But he never imagined that he’d compete in the Collegiate Wind Competition with WiscWind, or partner with Dane County to analyze the feasibility of incorporating residential wind turbines in subsidized housing projects, or create a hypothetical wind farm …

Grad student research recognized in Japan

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December 15, 2015 | by Sarah Olson University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Eleanor Bloom presented her research on sustainable systems for residential heating and cooling at a conference last month in Kashiwa, Japan, where she earned second place in a poster session featuring student research from several countries. December 15, 2015 | by Sarah Olson University of …

Calculating the future of solar-fuel refineries

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Jan. 23, 2015 | by: Scott Gordon In a paper recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, a team led by chemical and biological engineering Professors Christos Maravelias and George Huber outlined a tool to help engineers better gauge the overall yield, efficiency and costs associated with scaling solar-fuel production processes up into large-scale …