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Professor Wilson's primary research interest is power generation: highly efficient gas-turbine cycles, also known as microturbines. Power cycles based on gas-turbine engines include medium-power microturbines for powering factories and plants as well as small intercooled lower-power microturbines for portable generation and homes. Professor Wilson's design enables his gas turbines to run partially on alternative fuel sources such as biomass or refuse-derived fuel. In addition, his microturbines are combined-heat-and-power capable, providing for minimum waste and maximum efficiency.
Professor Wilson also invented the key technology that makes these super-efficient microturbines possible: a ceramic regenerative gas-to-gas heat exchanger. Utilizing his heat exchanger, the most efficient such device ever produced, Professor Wilson has designed the most efficient turbines every produced, including the 50% electrical efficiency microturbines under development at Wilson TurboPower.
In addition to his research at MIT, David has done research or consulting work for the Boeing Airplane Company, Northern Research and Engineering Corporation, the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, GE Aircraft Engines, Lincoln Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Energy, amongst others. He has served as editor of Human Power (the technical journal of the IHPVA) and as associate editor of JI. Power and Energy.
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