Assistant Prof. Michael Shoham Patrascu
Faculty:
Chemical Engineering
About:
2017-2020 – Senior Researcher – ExxonMobil R&D
2015-2017 – Postdoctoral Scholar – MIT, Process Systems Engineering Lab
2015 – PhD – Technion, Chemical Engineering
2008 – BSc – Technion, Chemical Engineering
Roles, Chairs, prizes …
2017, EFCE Excellence award in Process Intensification
2013, EFCE best poster award in a special competition on “Intensified Technologies for Multiphase Processes”, 9th ECCE, den Hague
2013, Fine scholarship for outstanding PhD students
2011, Leonard and Diane Sherman interdisciplinary graduate school fellowship
Research Area in Energy:
Alternative Fuels:
– Hydrogen Technology
– Scaled down hydrogen production in membrane reactors
– Gas to Liquids
– CO2 utilization
Renewable Energy Sources:
– Solar Thermal Energy
– Scaled down hydrogen production in solar heated membrane reactors
Research Interests:
M. Shoham Patrascu, M. Sheintuch, Multi-fuel scaled-down autothermal H2 generator: Design and proof of concept, AIChE J. 62(6) (2016) 2112-2125.
M. Patrascu, M. Sheintuch, On-site pure hydrogen production by methane steam reforming in high flux membrane reactor: Experimental validation, model predictions and membrane inhibition, Chem. Eng. J. 262 (2015) 862-874.