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QuantaCool VP Of Engineering Keynote Speaker At SEMI-THERM, and Awarded for Work on Thermal Management in Electronics
Dr. Alfonso Ortega, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Engineering at Villanova University, and QuantaCool Corporation's Vice President of Engineering,  was the keynote speaker at the 28th annual International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Semiconductor Thermal Management and Measurement Symposium (SEMI-THERM) held in San Jose, Calif.  In addition, Dr. Ortega and two of his former research assistants at Villanova, Bryan Hassell and Hari Potluri, were awarded the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence 2011, for scholarly work within the field of thermal management in electronic systems.  The award was given in recognition of their paper “An Investigation of Multi-Layer Mini-Channel Heat Sinks with Channel Geometric Scale Variation Suggested by Constructal Scaling Principles.” 
 
 
QuantaCool Chief Technology Officer Co-Chairs AIChE Session on Process Intensification
Mr. Steven Schon, QuantaCool Corporation's Chief Technology Officer, was co-chair of the Process Intensification plenary session at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2102 Spring National Meeting, held in Houston, Texas.  The  process intensification session included a paper by Dr. Ward Tegrotenhuis of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), about validating manufacturing costs for microchannel process technologies (click here for a link to the abstract).  QuantaCool's microchannel devices are among those whose manufacturing costs have been estimated by the PNNL methodology.
 
 

QuantaCool VP Of Engineering Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer News Article

Professor Alfonso Ortega, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Engineering at Villanova University, and QuantaCool Corporation's Vice President of Engineering, was featured in the December 11, 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer, in an article about the problem of managing waste heat from data centers. (Click here for link to the article). 

The article highlights the work being done by the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), a research consortium sponsored by the national Science Foundation, and jointly run by the State University of New York at Binghamton, Villanova University, and the University of Texas at Arlington.  E3S also has over a dozen industry co-sponsors.  (Click here for additional information about E3S).
 

 
QuantaCool VP Of Engineering and CTO are Co-authors of Recent Publications

We are pleased to announce that the following publications have been presented.  Professor Alfonso Ortega, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Engineering at Villanova University, who is QuantaCool Corporation's Vice President of Engineering, and Mr. Steven Schon, QuantaCool Corporation's Chief Technology Officer, are co-authors for both publications.  Reprints are available upon request (contact us).

  • “Simulation of Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in Mini- and Micro-Channels for Concentrating Photovoltaics Cooling”, presented at the ASME-sponsored 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (Washington D.C., August 7-10, 2011).

  • “Simulation Of Two-Phase Flow And Heat Transfer For Practical Design Of Mini- And Micro-Channel Heat Exchangers”, presented at the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011).
 
 

Villanova University and QuantaCool Complete Grant-funded work
In October 2011, Villanova University's Laboratory for Advanced Thermal and Fluid Systems completed the work funded by the ACED grant and QuantaCool Corporation.  Major accomplishments included development of a multi-physics computer model for microchannel heat exchangers operating in the boiling regime, construction of a lab-scale test unit (see gallery), including thermal measurements of a prototype MHPTM cooling system.  The modeling and laboratory work was the basis for a student's Master's thesis.
 
 
QuantaCool Awarded Alternative & Clean Energy Technology Development Grant

On July 15, 2010, QuantaCool Corporation was awarded an Alternative and Clean Energy Technology Development and Commercialization Initiative (ACED) grant by the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The ACED award recognizes the potential of QuantaCool's MHPTM technology for improving the performance and reducing costs for concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), and will be used for the design and testing of CPV-ready MHPTM prototypes.  The work will be carried out jointly with the Laboratory for Advanced Thermal and Fluid Systems at Villanova University, under the direction of Dr. Alfonso Ortega, James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research.
 
 

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