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MIT Club Presents: Novel Ways To Fund Your Cleantech Startup (10/29/2015)
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By Emmanuel Kasseris, PhD
Activity
Experience
Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Activities and Societies: Led team in the 100K Competition; Energy Club; Electric Vehicle Team
Thesis Focus: "Knock Mechanisms in Boosted Direct Injected Spark Ignited Engines Using Alcohol/Gasoline Blends".
Minor in Controls and Mechatronics. -
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Activities and Societies: Energy Club; Electric Vehicle Team
Thesis Focus: "Comparative Analysis of Future Conventional and Hybrid Automotive Powertrains".
Concentration in Thermal-Fluid Sciences. -
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Activities and Societies: Member of the Student Government
Thesis Focus: “Coupling a Wind Turbine with an Electrolyzer to Improve the Penetration of Wind Energy in Isolated Island Electric Grids”.
Concentration in Thermal-Fluid Sciences.
Publications
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“Charge Cooling Effects on Knock Limits in SI DI Engines Using Gasoline/Ethanol Blends: Part 1-Quantifying Charge Cooling”
SAE 2012-01-1275
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“Charge Cooling Effects on Knock Limits in SI DI Engines Using Gasoline/Ethanol Blends: Part 2-Effective Octane Numbers”
SAE 2012-01-1284
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“Comparative Analysis of Automotive Powertrain Choices for the Next 25 Years”
(Selected for the SAE 2007 Transactions-Journal of Passenger Cars.)
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“EGR Effects on Boosted SI Engine Operation and Knock Integral Correlation”
SAE 2012-01-0707 (Selected for the SAE Int. J. Engines 5(2):2012.)
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“On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation's Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions”
MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts Report No. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008
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“Optimization of a Wind-Power Fuel-Cell Hybrid System in an Autonomous Electrical Network Environment”
Renewable Energy 32 (2007) 57–79
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“Reducing the Fuel Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the US Vehicle Fleet”
Energy Policy Volume 36, Issue 7, July 2008, Pages 2754-2760.
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“The Trade-off Between Automobile Acceleration Performance, Weight, and Fuel Consumption”
SAE 2008-01-1524 (Selected for the SAE Transactions-International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants. 1(1)771-777, 2008.)
Patents
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"A Spark-Ignition Engine Concept that Uses Intake Port Injection of Ethanol To Extend Knock Limits"
Issued US 8,353,269 B2
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"Hybrid Solar and Fuel Fired Steam Generation System"
Filed US 61/885,338
Honors & Awards
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Tata Center for Technology and Design Grant
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A modified internal combustion engine to greatly reduce the cost of biomass to power
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US Department of Energy Grant
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Fuel separation system
Languages
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Greek
Native or bilingual proficiency
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German
Professional working proficiency
Organizations
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American Association of Mechanical Engineers
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Society of Petroleum Engineers
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Society of Automotive Engineers
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