Paul O'Brien

Associate Professor
at Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University

The Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy Technologies Group is focused on the innovative research, design and development of materials and systems for energy conversion, transport, and storage.

Living in : Canada

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Educations

Material Science And EngineeringPhDUniversity of Toronto2011-09-01 Canada

Material Science And EngineeringMaster'sUniversity of Toronto2007-09-01 Canada

Material Science And EngineeringBachelor'sUniversity of Toronto2002-09-01 Canada

Employments

Associate Professor

at Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University

I am currently working in this role

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

at Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto

Start : 01-Oct-2011

End : 01-Mar-2012

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

at Solar fuels research cluster, University of Toronto

Start : 01-Apr-2012

End : 01-Jun-2016

Assistant Professor

at Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University

Start : 01-Jul-2016

End : 01-Jul-2021

Conferences

Your Presentation Title :

The Effect of Optical Cavities on Thermophotovoltaic Systems, The Effect of Optical Cavities on Thermophotovoltaic Systems

Conference Name :Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity (TPV-13)

Japan

2022

Your Presentation Title :

Life Cycle Assessment of Using Solar Streetlights for Municipal Streetlighting

Conference Name :Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Energy Research and Applications (ICAERA’21)

Canada

2021

Your Presentation Title :

Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer in Air Channels for Thermal Energy Storage Applications in Buildings

Conference Name :Thriving Through Climate Change and Pandemic

Canada

2021

Your Presentation Title :

Analysis of a Trombe Wall Prototype with Thermal Energy Storage and Air Vent Management

Conference Name :Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transfer (EHST’21)

Canada

2021

Your Presentation Title :

Spectral Splitting Luminescent Solar Concentrator Panels for Agrivoltaic Applications

Conference Name :Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Energy Harvesting, Storage and Transfer (EHST’ 19)

Canada

2019

Journals Publication

Publication Title :

Transparent Photonic Crystal Heat Mirrors for Solar Thermal ApplicationsThird author

Journal :

Energies

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Publication Title :

Radiative cooling for buildings: a review of techno-enviro-economics and life-cycle assessment methodsFourth author

Journal :

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Publication Title :

Numerical Evaluation of One-dimensional Transparent Photonic Crystal Heat Mirrors for Parabolic Dish Concentrator ReceiversThird author

Journal :

Renewable Energy

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Publication Title :

Solar-Driven Interfacial Water Evaporation Using Open-Porous PDMS Embedded with Carbon NanoparticlesCorresponding author

Journal :

ACS Applied Electronic Materials

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Publication Title :

Enhanced Photothermal Reduction of Gaseous CO2 over Silicon Photonic Crystal Supported Ruthenium at Ambient TemperatureFirst author

Journal :

Energy and Environmental Science

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Research Keywords

Building Energy Performance

Thermophotovoltiacs

Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting

Techno-enviro-economic Assessment and Sustainability