Engineered Efficiency: Optimizing Automobile Engines With Mark Holtzapple
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mark Holtzapple, a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University, returns to the podcast to delve into his unique approach to engine efficiency and alternative energy. His passion for scientific exploration drives him to push the boundaries of what is possible. What is his current mission? To revolutionize the efficiency of automobile engines…
Mark is the co-author of two engineering textbooks used to teach engineers throughout the world: Foundations of Engineering and Concepts in Engineering. His research interests include biomass conversion to fuels, water desalination, high-efficiency air conditioning, engines, compressors, and more.
In this discussion, we cover:
- How Mark's research closes the gap between what an automobile engine can do, and what it is currently doing.
- How hot fuel, exhaust, and incoming air interact inside an internal combustion engine.
- The best engines that are carnot-efficient.
- How water evaporation impacts engine performance.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:39.0 | I have a returning guest here on the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | It's Professor Mark Holtzapple. He's in |
| 0:45.2 | chemical engineering department at Texas A&M. For some reason he seems to have all these |
| 0:50.0 | amazing ideas one after another after another and really enjoyed speaking with them about it from an engineering perspective. |
| 0:56.3 | So welcome back, Mark. Well, thank you for having me. Yeah, we had mentioned offline. |
| 1:00.8 | There's an engine that you're working on that is fuel agnostic |
| 1:04.2 | sounds really interesting to the star engine so maybe we can start with that and |
| 1:08.4 | talk about the project and you know have this idea first aim and what's |
| 1:12.4 | happening with it. |
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