Award Number: DE-EE0008392CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6Solar Energy Technologies OfficeLocation(s): ILOffice(s): Golden Field Office
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August 21, 2018
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Award Number: DE-EE0008392
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Location(s): IL
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (University of Illinois) to design, develop, and test novel heat exchanger technology with improved performance efficiency and fouling/scaling resistance, as compared to current heat exchanger technologies. The project would include the fabrication of prototype heat exchangers via additive manufacturing techniques, which would be tested in-lab for thermal performance at the 5 kW and 20 kW scales. Heat exchanger prototypes would also be field tested in order to assess long-term performance.