Patrick Fahey

Patrick (the kid in the green hat) and his team designed and built a parabolic trough for solar distillation at the 2009 WERC intercollegiate design competition.

Patrick’s Information:

• Chemical engineering graduate student entered NCSU Fall 2010
• Research Area: Fundamental pyrolysis chemistry
• Current Research Project: Experimentally determine reaction behavior of cellobiose, glucose, and levoglucosan

Other Interests:

• Biomass pyrolysis, liquefaction, and gasification
• Bio-oil upgrading
• Supercritical water gasification and hydrothermal upgrading, especially for high water-content plants
• Supercritical water oxidation, especially for the destruction of toxic materials
• Concentrated solar power
• Photovoltaics
• Environmental economics
• How to destroy viruses without destroying their hosts

Patrick’s Curriculum Vitae