Research Focus
- Develop test methods for evaluating the performance of various standalone and in-duct air cleaning technologies and products
- Develop model-based experimental methods for accelerated evaluation of sorption/filtration media
- Develop models and simulation tools for optimal design of air cleaners that are customized to the environments of interest such as office and residential buildings, printing/copying shops, health care facilities and industrial workplace
- Develop and optimize air cleaning technologies including combinatorial sorption/filtration, UV-PCO, Vis-PCO, non-thermal plasma and bio-filtration.
- Develop a database of air cleaner performance for use in the CHAMP simulation environment
Research Facilities
- A 12-channel filtration media testing facility built in accordance with the ASHRAE Standard 145
- Two full-scale environmental chamber for air cleaner testing and evaluation
- Precision microbalance for the study of the sorption and desorption characteristics of sorption media
- FTIR for measuring the material properties of catalytic surfaces
- Apparatus for measuring the surface area of sorption media
- Small-scale environmental chambers and reactors for evaluating UV-PCO and Vis-PCO technologies
Research Team
- Dr. Jensen Zhang (Team Leader, Acting)
- Dr. Zhibin Zhang
- Jim Smith
- Beverly Guo
- Wenhao Chen
- Saojie Wang
- Sunil Nair
- Jingjing Pei
- Zhiqiang Wang
Other active collaborating faculty
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Dr. Ezzat Khalifa, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
Dr. Thong Dang, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
Dr. Larry Tavlerides, Professor, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University