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Department of Energy – Investigator - $2,500,000 (my portion: $321,730) (selected – waiting funds)
Proposal Title: “Development of Forced-Air Combustion Systems with Automated Controls to Reduced Emissions from Cordwood Room Heaters.”
Office of Naval Research – Principal Investigator - $110,104 (my portion: $110,104) (selected – waiting funds)
Proposal Title: “Application of Infrared Thermography to Understand Detonation Behavior in Channels.”
Office of Naval Research – Principal Investigator - $196,225 ($65,408) (2021-2022)
Proposal Title: “Evaluating Highly Transient Heat Transfer and Detonation Processes with Application to Advanced Engines and Electronics Cooling.”
Air Force Research Laboratory (via UTC) – Principal Investigator - $19,000 (2020-2021)
Develop an inlet duct for a small gas turbine engine.
Office of Naval Research – Principal Investigator - $460,106 (2020-2023)
Proposal Title: “Identifying the influence of two-phase fuels on detonation behavior through small channels”
National Institute of Science and Technology –Principal Investigator - $199,832 (2019-2021)
Proposal Title: “Measuring Source Terms of Firebrand Generation Numbers for Physics-based Models.”
Air Force Research Laboratory (via UTC) – Principal Investigator - $19,000 (2019-2020)
Project to modify a gas turbine engine to stop wind milling and provide thrust vectoring.
Strategic Environmental and Research Program -Principal Investigator - $2,073,903 ($753,800) (2019-2023)
Proposal Title: “Live Fuels: Identification of Key Processes Controlling Ignition, Burning Rates, and Fuel Consumption.”
Air Force Research Laboratory (via UTC) – Principal Investigator - $19,000 (2018-2019)
Project to reduce the thrust-to-weight ratio of gas turbine engines
Federal Aviation Agency – Investigator - $59,000 (2018)
Proposal Title: Continuation of Testing for Area #3 Advanced Combustion Tests
National Institute of Science and Technology –Investigator - $563,000 ($145,000) (2018-2020)
Proposal Title: Development of methodology for determination of ignition propensity by firebrands in wildland-urban interface.”
Air Force Research Laboratory (via UTC) – Principal Investigator - $19,000 (2017-2018)
Proposal Title: Design, Fabrication, Testing, and Evaluation of a Supersonic Nozzle for a small Gas Turbine Engine.”
Office of Naval Research – Principal Investigator - $599,985 (2017-2020)
Proposal Title: “Ignition, Deflagration, and Detonation Behavior of Fuel and Oxidizer Mixed with Combustion Products.”
Air Force Research Laboratory – Principal Investigator - $16,093 (2016-2017)
Proposal Title: “Design, Fabrication, Testing, and Evaluation of a Supersonic Nozzle for a small Gas Turbine Engine.”
Federal Aviation Agency – Investigator - $80,000 (2016–2017)
Proposal Title: “Continuation of Measuring Turbulent Flame Speeds of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels Project 27 B.”
Strategic Environmental and Research Program -Principal Investigator - $2,045,094 ($844,800) (2016-2021)
Proposal Title: “Ignition, Propagation, and Emissions of Smoldering Combustion Experimental Analysis and Physics-Based Modelling.”
Federal Aviation Agency – Investigator - $340,000 ($80,000) (2015–2016)
Proposal Title: “Continuation of Measuring Turbulent Flame Speeds.”
National Energy and Technology Laboratory - Principal Investigator - $723,300 ($362,300) (2015–2018)
Proposal Title: “Pulse Detonation Engine for Advanced Oxy-Combustion of Coal-Based Fuels.”
Air Force Research Laboratory – Principal Investigator - $16,700 (2015-2016)
Proposal Title: “External Combustor for Engine.”
Joint Fire Science Program - Principal Investigator - $383,300 ($170,000) (2015-2018)
Proposal Title: “Multi-scale Study of Ember Production and Transport under Multiple Environmental and Fuel Conditions.”
American Chemical Society - Principal Investigator - $110,000 (2015-2017)
Proposal Title: “Influence of Low Temperature Chemistry and Chemical Classes on MILD Combustion of Large Hydrocarbon Fuels.”
Proposal Title: “Advanced Combustion (Area #3)”
Air Force Research Laboratory – Principal Investigator - $15,292 (2014-2015)
Proposal Title: “External Combustor for JetCat Engine.”
Northwest Natural –Faculty Member - $56,000 (2014)
Donation of equipment and funding to set up at micro-gas turbine with a heat exchanger
Air Force Office of Scientific Research – Principal Investigator - $900,000 ($600,000) (2012 - 2014)
Proposal Title: “Stabilization and Mass Transport in High Centrifugal Force Combustion”
Air Force Research Laboratories – Investigator - $23,162 (2010)
Proposal Title: “Studies of the Temperature and Delivered Energy of a Plasma Jet Igniter, Turbulent Radiation Statistics in Bluff-body Stabilized Flames, and Estimated Scalar Values in Soot Producing Centerbody Stabilized Ethylene Flames”, subcontract: SB15009, contract: F33615-03-D-2329 DO 0003