Ragya Kapoor Successfully Defends Dissertation
By Victoria Birk Hill April 13, 2023
We are happy to announce that Ragya Kapoor, a researcher at CARD and a student at the University of Illinois-Urbana champaign, has successfully defended her dissertation titled “Vitamin E-loaded, Ultrasound-dried Microcapsules Stabilized by Modified Pea Protein Isolate”. Her advisor was Dr. Hao Feng. Congratulations, Ragya!
Zahra Noori O’Connor Wins 1st Prize at WPI Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill April 13, 2023
The annual Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a poster celebration and competition that highlights the breadth, diversity, and quality of WPI’s graduate research. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Dean of Graduate Studies, it is a two-part event consisting of an Open Research Celebration and Finals […]
Baby Boy News!
By Victoria Birk Hill March 24, 2023
We are so pleased to announce that Professor Aswin Gnanaskandan and his wife received the wondrous gift of a bouncing baby boy on March 21, 2023. Baby weighed in at 6.1 pounds and 18.5 inches. Everyone is doing fine. Our hearty congratulations to Prof. Gnanaskandan and his family.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Research Presentations
By Victoria Birk Hill March 20, 2023
On March 15, 2023, nine students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) provided nine research presentations to Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MASS CEC). This research is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) and MASS CEC, a member of CARD since 2016. MASS CEC eagerly sponsors the day for WPI’s students. The presentations […]
CARD Paper Recognized as Top-Cited Article
By Victoria Birk Hill February 23, 2023
We are pleased to announce that a paper – “Stress Relaxation Properties of Bananas During Drying” – written by CARD researchers Fidele Abedi and Pawan Takhar has been recognized by Wiley Publishing as a top-cited article in 2021 – 2022. This distinction is based upon data collected from Clarivate Analytics. The paper and CARD-funded research […]
Zahra Noori O’Connor Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation
By Victoria Birk Hill February 16, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Zahra Noori O’Connor recently, and successfully, defended her PhD dissertation. Many industrial and university members joined for her presentation. The title of her thesis is “Fundamental Understanding of Removal of Water from a Moist Porous Medium in the Absence and Presence of Ultrasound Mechanism”. She is a graduate of […]
Fidele Abedi Successfully Defends Dissertation
By Victoria Birk Hill February 8, 2023
We are so pleased to announce that Fidele Abedi successfully defended his dissertation on January 26, 2023. The title of his thesis is “Multiscale Modeling of Transport Mechanisms, Strain, and Stress in Food Products Subjected to Drying.” His advisor at the University of Illinois was Dr. Pawan Takhar. Congratulations, Dr. Abedi!
1st Licensing Venture for Commercial Application
By Victoria Birk Hill February 2, 2023
We are pleased to announce that CARD has developed its first “commercial licensing venture” using technology developed from several of CARD’s research projects. This deal was signed in December and allows the licensing company (a CARD Member company) to leverage the unique drying technology for its business purposes. We are all pleased to see CARD […]
Drying of Porous Medium with Excess Water
By Victoria Birk Hill December 13, 2022
In a recently published article in the ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, researcher Elif Asar and Prof. Jamal Yagoobi discuss the new drying model that was developed to numerically study porous media with excess water and extend previous drying models’ capabilities. The name of the article is “Drying of a Fully Saturated Porous […]
Ultrasonic Drying Applied to Paper Drying
By Victoria Birk Hill December 12, 2022
We are pleased to share our latest publication in Drying Technology. It’s called “Experimental Study of Paper Drying with Direct-Contact Ultrasound Mechanism”. The authors are Zahra Noori O’Connor, Dr. Jamal Yagoobi, and Dr. Burt Tilley. For the first time, ultrasonic drying is applied to paper drying and it provides basic understanding of this application. The […]