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Jayanta Kapat serves as director of the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research (CATER). Kapat brought a multidisciplinary team together to solve some of the most complex research problems in turbomachinery for power generation, aviation and space propulsion. His team has invented a way to cost-efficiently convert excess renewable energy to hydrogen and oxygen, and store it long-term so that it can be reconverted and added to the electrical grid. Kapat’s research technology developments include blending renewable energy for the electrical grid, looking beyond power grids and safeguarding the environment because the invention (H2/02 Direct-fired sCO2 Power System) blends the use of renewables to keep power grids going.
- Association Fellow
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
