About Us
About Hi-TECS
Led by Prof. Greg Jackson, the High-Temperature Energy Conversion and Storage (Hi-TECS) group prides itself in combining fundamental experiments with multiscale modeling of materials and processes and system-level modeling and analysis to address societal energy challenges with respect to efficient resource utilization and sustainability. Our skills and capabilities in terms of both experiments and modeling give us the flexibility to tackle a broad array of energy conversion and storage problems.
Professor Greg Jackson
Hi-TECS Director
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Prof. Jackson has over 30 years of experience in research and development in energy conversion and storage. He joined Colorado School of Mines in January 2013 as the department head of Mechanical Engineering, a role in which he served through the summer of 2017. Before joining Mines in 2013, Jackson was a faculty member for over 15 years at the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering and the campus-wide Energy Research Center, for which he served as Associate Director for several years.
At Mines, Dr. Jackson manages the Thermochemical Energy Conversion & Storage Group, which has research projects in concentrated solar power, high-temperature energy storage, solid-oxide electrochemical systems, and reactive materials modeling. He has published broadly on materials and processes for heterogeneous combustion processes, high-temperature catalysis, electrochemistry, and more recently energy storage. He recently finished a term on the Board of Directors of the Electrochemical Society. He received his PhD from Cornell University where he performed research on liquid-fuel combustion. After his PhD, he worked at Precision Combustion Inc. where he led research and development on catalytic reactors for low-NOx combustion and aircraft engine ignition.
Former Team Members:
Tyler Ketchem: MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2015; Now with MRI Global, Kansas City, MO
Rounak Kharait: MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2015; Now with DNV, San Diego, CA
C.J. Pfutzner: BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2016; Now with Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Dan Miller: MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2017; Now with Exoterra Resource, Denver, CO
Luca Imponenti: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2018; Now with Solar Dynamics, Broomfield, CO
Eduardo Lozano: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2020; Now with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Jeremy Abraham: BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2020; Now with Solid Power, Lousiville, CO
Bradley Jesteadt: BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2020; Now with Lockheed Martin, Littleton, CO
Experimental Capabilities
- Temperature-controlled reacting flow rigs for transient characterization of catalystsis, thermochemical energy storage materials, radiation absorption
- In operando high-temperature electrochemical impedance spectroscopy characterization of electrochemical cells
- Thermogravimmetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry of energy-related materials
- Environmental X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for in operando reacting surface characterization
- Multi-phase flow heat exchanger characterization
- Energy system process integration and testing
Modeling Capabilities
- Multiphysics modeling of solid-oxide electrochemical cells, catalytic reactors, redox cycles, and multi-phase flow heat exchangers
- Cantera-based thermochemical models of heterogeneous chemistry
- ANSYS Fluent modeling of multi-phase flow heat exchangers
- System optimization of multi-component energy conversion processes
- Multi-phase detonation simulations