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came to the United States to obtain his M.S. degree from Lehigh University
in 1973, and Sc.D. degree from M.I.T. in 1976, all in Mechanical Engineering. IGTI Aircraft Engine Technology Award. He is a Fellow of both ASME and
After 4 years working in the industry as an engineer, he has been a faculty
member at Texas A&M University since 1980. He was a Research Fellow at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NASA-Glenn Research Center and
United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney Turbine Center.
Dr. Han is well known for pioneering and excellent studies in high-
temperature turbine blade cooling research that has greatly impacted the
modern development of high-efficiency gas turbines for both aircraft and
land-based power generation applications. His works are generally basic
convection but relate closely to turbine blade internal heat transfer
enhancement and external film cooling applications for NASA, DOE,
General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens, Honeywell, and Solar Turbines
for the past 37 years. His pioneering work in angled-rib turbulence
promoters has replaced earlier designs and become a standard and has
had a lasting impact in the way that gas turbine companies design
advanced turbine blade cooling systems. His original work in Coriolis
force and rotating buoyancy force effects on coolant passage heat
transfer using a novel and excellent rotating facility have resulted in the
design of more efficient turbine rotor blades. His fundamental study on
film cooling under unsteady high free-stream turbulence conditions has
had a huge impact on turbine blade film cooling design. He performed an
excellent series studies with innovative techniques he helped to develop
and popularize including liquid crystal visualization of surface temperature
and pressure sensitive paints providing a mass transfer analogy to heat
transfer applicable to gas turbine geometries.
Professor Han has supervised 32 M.S., 45 Ph.D. students, and 12
Post-Doctoral Research Associates, and hosted 10 International Visiting
Scholars. Han is the author or co-author of approximately 480 technical
publications including 225 refereed journal papers, 21 articles appearing
in book chapters, and 235 refereed conference papers, and 6 United
States patents. His publication has received more than 16,300 Google
Scholar Citations with 66 h-index and 232 i10-index. Han has published an
influential book “Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology” in
2000 which describes many cooling techniques that have won wide
acceptance in the gas turbine industry and a graduate-level text book
“Analytical Heat Transfer” in 2011.
Dr. Han has been invited to more than 100 seminars, including more than
35 invitations to present keynote papers at various national and
international conferences. He has served as chair of the ASME K-14 Gas
Turbine Heat Transfer Committee (2004-2006) and several Heat Transfer
Honors and Awards Committees (2005-2006, 2008-2010). He has served
as chair on a number of conferences and as the session organizer, chair or
topical organizer for more than 70 ASME, AIAA, and international
conference technical sessions. He has served as an editor of the
International Journal of Rotating Machinery since 1994, as an associate
editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (1997-2000), Journal of
Turbomachinery (2004-2013) and Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines
and Power (2004-2007), and for the AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and
Heat Transfer (2004-2015), an Honorary Editorial Advisory Boards
Member for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer since
2005 and for the Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer since 2010. He
received the 2002 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the 2004
International Rotating Machinery Award, the 2004 AIAA Thermophysics
Award, the 2007 ASME K-14 Warren Rohsenow Prize, and the 2016 ASME 13
AIAA.
CITATION: For lasting contributions in pioneering advanced gas turbine
blade cooling research, particularly in convective heat transfer
augmentation, heat transfer in rotating channel flows, and film cooling in
unsteady high turbulent flows.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2017 • 10:30 AM – 12:10 PM
EVERGREEN BALLROOM EF, LOBBY LEVEL
“HIGH-TEMPERATURE SOLAR POWER & FUELS WITH THERMOCLINE
ENERGY STORAGE”
Professor Aldo Steinfeld
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich, Switzerland
ABSTRACT: Solar thermal and thermochemical processes using
concentrated solar energy inherently operate at high temperatures and
utilize the entire solar spectrum, and as such provide thermodynamic
favorable paths for the efficient production of power and fuels. The
engineering design and experimental demonstration of two novel solar
receiver/reactor concepts for power and fuels production are presented: 1)
a solar receiver for driving a gas turbine; and 2) a solar reactor for splitting
H2O and CO2. Both concepts use reticulated porous ceramic (RPC)
materials for efficient heat and mass transport. These processes can be
operated 24/7 by integration with a thermocline thermal energy storage
(TES). The simple and robust TES concept uses a packed bed of rocks or
ceramics as storing material and air as the heat transfer fluid for
applications in the range 500 – 1500°C. Two pilot demonstrations were
carried out for a concentrated solar power plant and for an adiabatic
compressed air energy system, yielding charging-discharging energy
efficiencies of over 90%.
BIOGRAPHY: Aldo Steinfeld (PhD University of Minnesota, 1989) is
Professor at the Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH
Zurich, where he holds the Chair of Renewable Energy Carriers. His
research comprises high-temperature heat/mass transfer phenomena and
multi-phase reacting flows. From 1995-2014, he directed the Solar
Technology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute. At ETH Zurich, he
served as the Head of the Institute of Energy Technology from 2005–
2007 and Associate Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process
Engineering from 2007–2009. His contributions to science and education
have been recognized with the ASME Rice Award (2006), the Yellott
Award (2008), the ERC Advanced Grant (2012), the ISES Farrington Daniels
Award (2013), the Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2013), and the ASME
Kreith Energy Award (2016). Prof. Steinfeld is ASME Fellow and member of
the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and of the International Solar
Energy Society’s Board of Directors.