The mission of the REACH CoLab is to develop high-impact technologies at scale and rapidly bring them to market, focusing on thermal energy systems for decarbonization.

Novel Cooling Strategies for Data Centers

Advances in additive manufacturing techniques enable rapid prototyping of intricate heat exchanger designs

Fuel Preheater

Used to heat up fuel gas mixture prior to consumption in the fuel cell

3-Cylinder Kohler Engine

Improves hybrid fuel cell-IC engine system efficiency by accommodating balance-of-plant loads using exhaust gas from fuel cell as intake mixture.

Fuel Cell Pressure Vessel

Custom fabricated pressure vessel for SOFC stack

Hybrid Fuel Cell-IC Engine Test Facility

70% fuel to power efficiency achieved with combination of fuel cell, IC engine, and advanced system integration strategies

Turbo-compression cooling system test facility

Generate 300 kWth of cooling using low-grade waste heat

Aluminum Brazed Heat Exchangers

Custom fabricated, large format aluminum brazed plate-fin boiling heat exchangers

Current Research

Industrial decarbonization
High efficiency hybrid power generation
Heat activated cooling systems
Advanced thermal management techniques for laser diodes and data centers
Carbon capture

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Recently in Our Lab:

2023

Spring

Congratulations to Lars Mitchel on 3rd place in the 10k at mountain west conference championships!

Congratulations to Brandi Grauberger on her successful preliminary exam!

2022

Summer

Congratulations to Ethan Markey on the Successful Defense of his Master’s Thesis!

Wow - Congratulations to Dr. Bandhauer, David and Zach! Read about their new adVentures!

Follow this link to read more: Data Center Cooling Technology Born at CSU Receives Startup Support from Activate

Shout out to Brandi Grauberger for representing us at the 2022 ASTFE-TFEC Conference in Las Vegas.

You can watch her presentation here: Waste Heat Utilization for Produced Water Treatment

Spring

Caleb presented on his previous research work on microchannel flow boiling at the Directed Energy Annual Science & Technology Symposium in Mobile, ALabama.

Caleb designed and fabricated new microchannel evaporators for a collaborative effort with the Army Research Lab funded by the Office of Naval Research. Here’s what he made while he was at ARL:

Congratulations to David Hobby on the Successful Defense of his PhD dissertation!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALEX GRAUBERGER ON THE SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE OF HIS PHD DISSERTATION!

CONGRATUALTIONS TO BRANDI GRAUBERGER ON THE PUBLICATION OF AN ARTICLE IN THE LAtest ISSUE OF COLORADO WATER!

You can find Brandi’s article here: The Needed Evolution of Animal Product Processing Facility Water Management in the U.S.

2021

CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE ON SOME OF OUR NEW WORK ON WATER DESALINATION!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ZACH GILVEY AND JUSTIN HOLLIS ON THE SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE OF THEIR MASTER’S THESIS!

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO RECENT ANALYSIS OF AGRICULUTRAL WATER SUPPLY!

Follow this link to learn more: Water scarcity will require agriculture to tap ‘unconventional’ sources like seawater, wastewater

2019

**HOW WE REACH INTO INDUSTRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!**

Read about our lab in this featured article: Bandhauer laboratory bridges gap between research and commercial deployment

SO HAPPY TO WELCOME INDUSTRY LEADERS TO THE POWERHOUSE TO SEE OUR WORK!

Check out this article for more: Ag-Energy Field Day connects energy leaders with CSU research

2018

A HUGE STEP FOR OUR LAB!

Read more about our new opportunity here: $1.8M from DOE supports innovative waste heat recovery system