Past Projects	PIs	Lead site
Enhancement of Drying Rate of Moist Porous Media with Electric Field	Yagoobi	WPI
An Integrated Multi-Scale Modeling and Sensors-Based Approach to Study Strain and Stresses in Foods Undergoing Glass Transition During Drying	Liu/Takhar	WPI/UIUC
Ultrasound-Mediated Ethanol Dewatering/Dehydration	Feng	UIUC
Smart Drying Enabled by Multi-Source Data Fusion and Machine Learning	Shao/Narra	UIUC/WPI
Removal of Water Trapped Inside a Single Cellulose Fiber	Yagoobi	WPI
Ultrasonic Non-Thermal Drying of Wet Bio-Polymeric Materials	Feng	UIUC
Wireless Passive MEMS Sensor for in situ Continuous Temperature and Moisture Sensing	Liu	UIUC
Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer with Innovative Impinging Jet Nozzles	Yagoobi	WPI
FSMA Validation of Low Moisture Food Undergoing Heating and Drying	Feng	UIUC
Solving Coupled Non-Fickian Moisture Transport and QualityKinetics Model for Improving the Quality and Nutritional Attributes of Selected Fruits and Vegetables during Drying	Takhar	UIUC
Fundamental Understanding of Rapid Air Drying of Paper Tissues	Tilley/Yagoobi	WPI
Enhancement of Municipal Wastewater Biosolids Drying through Interfacial Energy Modifying Amendments to Promote Uniform Agglomeration	Bergendahl	WPI
Reducing Water Use in Corn Ethanol Process by Efficient High Solids Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation	Singh	UIUC
Multi-Channel Drying Platform for Process Validation and Optimization	Feng	UIUC
Optical Nondestructive Testing Augmented by MEMS and Fiber-optic Sensors	Furlong	WPI
Spray Drying of Hygroscopic Materials Using an Encapsulation Strategy Through Three-fluid Nozzle	Lee	UIUC