Electric Power Research Institute Visits CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill February 4, 2025
We are pleased to share that Scott Bishop and Baskar Vairamohan, of Electric Power Research Institute, visited the CARD lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on February 4, 2025 to explore the new drying technologies being developed within CARD. Featured in the photo are: Back row – Itamar Harris and Hanshen Yu (both PhD students) and […]
New CARD Chair and Co-Chair
By Victoria Birk Hill January 15, 2025
We are pleased to share that Xue Liu, of BASF, has stepped up from Co-Chair to Chair of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for CARD, and Stephen Cobbe, Kerry, has stepped into the position of Co-Chair. Thank you both for your commitment to CARD. Recently, Sanjay Sarang, PepsiCo, stepped down as Chair of the Industry […]
CARD Researcher Yash Shah’s Paper Chosen for InterPore Journal Cover
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
UIUC’s professor Pawan Takhar’s student Yash Shah’s paper entitled “Hybrid mixture theory-based modeling of unsaturated transport in a deforming porous food matrix during frying” has been selected for the cover page of Interpore Journal. It is an International Society of Porous Media Journal. This is quite an honor since the editors selected it independently. As […]
Innovative Light Technology Mitigates Contamination of Cereal Grains
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
In a new study, researchers evaluated far-ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light as a safe way to alleviate fungal contamination of corn and wheat and found this technology to be effective. The study co-author Yi-Cheng Wang, assistant professor in FSHN at UIUC, and lead author Zhenhui Jin (UIUC), a recent graduate of FSHN’s doctoral program, tested the […]
Nyle Thermal Joins CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 22, 2024
Professors Jamal Yagoobi, Kedar Shete, and Mehdi Mortazavi along with Mana Masrouri, a CARD PhD student, visited Nyle Thermal located in Brewer/Bangor, Maine, on December 19, 2024. We are delighted to announce that Nyle Thermal is in the process of joining CARD as an affiliate member. Since 1977, Nyle Thermal has been manufacturing innovative, industrial […]
Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti Successfully Defends PhD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 16, 2024
We are pleased to share that CARD researcher and WPI student, Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti, successfully defended her PhD entitled, “Misting of Liquid and Dehydration of Moist Porous Media with Direct and Airborne Ultrasonic Wave – a Fundamental and Applied Study” on December 9th, 2024. Her research combines a fundamental understanding of ultrasonic atomization and integration […]
Liu’s Group Wins IDS Excellent Poster Presentation Award
By Victoria Birk Hill December 15, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Yuxiang Liu’s group won the Excellent Poster Presentation Award in the 23rd International Drying Symposium, which was held in Wuxi, China on November 22-25, 2024. The poster title is “Chemical and crystallinity detection with a fiber-based optical sensor for Raman spectroscopy”. The work presented in the poster was […]
IPG’s Recent Visit to CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 6, 2024
Natalia Pavlova, a member of IPG Photonic’s Board and a Trustee to the VPG Foundation (a family foundation supporting the philanthropic endeavors of IPG’s founder, Valentin P. Gapontsev) and Dr. Igor Samartsev, IPG’s Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, visited the CARD Lab at WPI recently. During their visit, various technologies installed in the Smart […]
Jamal Yagoobi Gives Keynote Presentation at 23rd International Drying Symposium
By Victoria Birk Hill November 30, 2024
Professor and CARD director, Jamal Yagoobi, gave a keynote presentation at the 23rd International Drying Symposium (IDS) which was held in Wuxi, China in November 2024. The title of his presentation was “Decarbonizing Industrial Drying – The Role of Academic Institutions.” Click here if you’d like to learn more about IDS 2024.
Yuxiang Liu to Serve as Co-PI on Research that Will Analyze Artery Blockages in the Brain
By Victoria Birk Hill November 25, 2024
We are pleased to share that CARD faculty member and researcher, Yuxiang Liu, along with his WPI colleague, Yihao Zheng, have been awarded a $1.1 million grant to build a fiber-optic probe that will analyze artery blockages in the brain and guide procedures for clot removal. The research will ultimately help improve treatment for ischemic […]