Faraz Esfahani

Teaching Assistant :

• Fluid dynamics

• Renaissance Engineer 2: Engineering Design Principles

• Thermofluid Laboratory

Established laboratory instrumentation to study steam generation performance of different samples and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles in solar vapour generation. Supported two research projects by conducting experiments, extracting raw data, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. Successfully completed both research studies yielding concrete results leading to two publications.

• ZnO on mulberry wood (ZnO-wood) improved evaporation efficiency by 17% and 39% compared to ZnO nanofluid and water.

• Increased the evaporative efficiency from 47% to 58% in the superficial approach and from 37% to 40% in the volumetric approach.

• Completed cost analysis illustrating ZnO-Wood nanoparticles are more cost-effective compared to other nanoparticles.