Technical Papers

Nuclear Energy and Advanced Thermal Technologies

Authored by ACT’s Kimberly Mankosa, Lead Sales Engineer, and Calin Tarau, Principal Engineer, R&D.

Thermal Management of Large Area Heat Loads Using Multi-Pass Cryogenic Loop Heat Pipe

Presented by Nathan Van Velson, Roopesh Kumar, Calin Tarau, Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni at AIAA SciTech 2024.

Status of Development of a Solid-State Thermal Management System of a MW-Scale Electric Aircraft

Presented by Ramy Abdelmaksoud, Jeffrey Diebold, Zayed Ahmed, Brett Leitherer, Calin Tarau, Kuan-Lin Lee, and Rodger Dyson at AIAA SciTech 2024

Developments in Thermal Management Technologies for Space Nuclear Energy Systems

Presented by Calin Tarau, William G. Anderson, and Jeff Diebold.

Evaluating the Carbon Footprint of the Integrated DBD-plasma Bi-reforming Unit via Laboratory Scale Experiments and Scaled-up Process Modeling

Presented by Yue Xiao, Chien-Hua Chen, and Mruthunjaya Uddi

Development of Ceramic Pulsating Heat Pipes for Medium-Voltage Power Electronics

Presented by ACT Engineer Ramy Abdelmaksoud at ASME 2023 Interpack.

Swiss-Roll Ammonia Reformer for Gas Turbine Applications

Presented by Patryk Radyjowski at the AFRC (American Flame Research Committee) Industrial Combustion Symposium, Denver, CO, Sept. 25-27, 2023.

Swiss-Roll Combustor: An Innovative Closed Combustor Design for High Methane Destruction Efficiency and Ultra-Low NOx Emissions

Presented by Daksh Adhikari at the AFRC (American Flame Research Committee) Industrial Combustion Symposium, Denver, CO, Sept. 25-27, 2023.

Performance Investigation on Different Form Factor Embedded Heat Pipe and Pulsating Heat Pipe Heat Spreaders

Presented at the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference by ACT’s Sai Kiran Hota, Kuan-Lin Lee, Greg Hoeschele, Richard W. Bonner, and Srujan Rokkam