Herek Clack, PhD
Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Office: E1-252D
Phone: 312.567.3184
Fax: 312.567.7230
Email:
clack@iit.edu
Web:
ATESR Lab
Expertise
- Thermofluid systems.
Education
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Research
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
- Rockwell International, Rocketdyne Division Manager's Award (1992, 1993)
- Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers, President's Award (1992)
- Air and Waste Management Association, Golden West Chapter Student Award (1997)
- National Academies, National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (1998-1999)
- MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sixteen Stars Distinguished Young Alumni/ae (2000)
- National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award (2003)
- National Academies, National Research Council committee member: Committee on Changes in New Source Review Programs for Stationary Sources of Air Pollutants (2004-2006)
- National Academies/Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (invited speaker) (2005)
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Clack, H.L. (2009). "Mercury Capture within Coal-fired Power Plant Electrostatic Precipitators: Model Evaluation." Environmental Science and Technology 43, pp. 1460-1466.
Ammigan, K. and H.L. Clack (2009). "Spatial Vapor Distribution Around a Monodisperse Acetone Droplet Stream Exposed to Asymmetric Radiant Heating." Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 32(2), pp. 2179- 2186.
Scala, F. and H.L. Clack (2008). "Mercury Emissions from Coal Combustion: Modeling and Comparison of Hg Capture in a Fabric Filter versus an Electrostatic Precipitator." Journal of Hazardous Materials 152, pp. 616-623.
Clack, H.L. (2006). "Bimodal Fly Ash Distributions and Their Influence on Gas-Particle Mass Transfer During Electrostatic Precipitation." Fuel Processing Technology 87, pp. 987-996.
Clack, H.L. (2006). "Particle Size Distribution Effects on Gas-Particle Mass Transfer within Electrostatic Precipitators." Environmental Science and Technology 40, pp. 3929-3933.
Clack, H.L. and M.A. Ahmed (2006). "Mass Transfer Coefficients Associated with the Mixing of a Confined Gas Volume by the Random Motion of Loose Spheres." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 49, pp. 2931-2938.
Clack, H.L. (2006). "Mass Transfer within Electrostatic Precipitators: In-flight Adsorption of Mercury by Charged Suspended Particulates." Environmental Science and Technology 40, pp. 3617-3622.
Clack, H.L. (2006). "Mass Transfer within Electrostatic Precipitators: Trace Gas Adsorption by Sorbent-covered Plate Electrodes." Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 56, pp. 759-766.
