Mechanical Engineering
 

Philip Malte - Professor

Research Links
University of Michigan (PhD 1971)
Energy and Fluids

Courses

ME 341: Energy and Environment
ME 424: Combustion Systems
ME 426: Sustainable Energy Design
ME 442: Renewable Energy
ME 522: Micro-Thermodynamics

Contact Information

Phone: 206-543-5486 and 206-685-2171
Fax: 206-685-8047
Email: malte@u.washington.edu
Website: http://www.energy.washington.edu/

Biography

Professor Malte conducts research on energy and environmental combustion. Studies on low-emission combustion for power generation gas turbines involve the use of laboratory combustion reactors, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and chemical reactor networks (CRN) to help understand and build predictive capabilities, with emphasis on controlling pollutant emissions.

Fuel-air and fuel-steam injectors are developed to extend low-emission performance to liquid-fueled gas turbines and to improve the performance of fuel cell reformers. Studies on renewable energy and energy sustainability include: design and application of renewable energy systems for the National Parks and the Puget Sound region; and laboratory, modeling and systems studies on wood combustion and thermo-chemical conversion.