Graduate student in mechanical engineering at UBC

I am a graduate student (MASc) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, supervised by Dr. Steven Rogak. I expect to finish in summer 2027. My research is experimental. I measure how conventional and sustainable jet fuels change engine performance, gaseous emissions and particle emissions.

Most of my work happens in the test cell at UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC). I commissioned a JetCat P200-SX micro-turbojet test rig there. This covered the instrumentation, data acquisition, dilution and sampling lines, safety systems and test procedures. The rig allows back-to-back fuel comparisons on the same engine and day, with modest fuel use.

At maximum thrust, the P200-SX reaches a combustor-inlet temperature and pressure close to those of a V2500 turbofan at idle. Our collaborators at TU Braunschweig use our measurements to calibrate and test a chemical reactor network (CRN) model of the combustor.

This work is part of JET-CALF (Jet Contrails from Aviation Lubricants and Fuels), a multi-institution program funded by NSERC and Boeing. Our collaborators are at TU Braunschweig, Tampere University and Sungkyunkwan University.

I also led the decommissioning of the legacy SCRE research-engine facility, which made our test cell turbojet-specific. I now lead our instrumentation of a second engine, a JetCat P220-RXi, together with TU Braunschweig. This includes the instrumentation design, a Station 4 combustor sampling probe and the test-cell setup.

I coordinate the UBC experimental work for JET-CALF, SCALE-SAF and VLAME with TU Braunschweig, Tampere University, Sunchon National University, NRC and Boeing.

Before the MASc, I completed a BASc in Mechanical Engineering at UBC, and technologist diplomas at Camosun College and SAIT. For a PhD, I want to follow fuel effects from the combustor into the turbine. My research interests page sets out the plan.