Bio
Dr. Kyle R. Gluesenkamp is a Distinguished R&D Scientist leading a research portfolio of advanced future equipment for buildings, spanning heat pumps, water heating, residential appliances, and thermal energy storage. He currently serves as a co-director of the Stor4Build Consortium, as ORNL's Subprogram Manager for Thermal Energy Storage, and as an ORNL Graduate Advisor with the University of Tennessee Bredesen Center. He has over 15 years of experience and deep expertise in heat pumps, thermal storage and phase change materials, residential appliances (clothes dryers and dishwashers), dual fuel heat pumps, sorption technologies, combined heat and power, heat transfer, psychrometrics, and experimental prototype evaluation. He has published two book chapters, over 50 journal articles, over 100 conference articles, and has 7 granted patents.
Dr. Gluesenkamp is the first recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award, awarded in 2024 by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, with one awardee chosen from researchers at all 17 DOE national laboratories. He has also received a Bredesen Center Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award and ORNL's Mentor of Student Researchers award. He serves on multiple ASHRAE committees, has served as US expert on IEA HPT Annexes on sorption and thermal storage topics, and is also active in ASME and multiple conference scientific steering committees.
Awards
2024 Outstanding Researcher Award, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
2023 R&D 100 Award team member, for the “Ultraclean Condensing Gas Furnace” technology. Team: Zhiming Gao, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Kashif Nawaz, Anthony Gehl, Josh Pihl, Dino Sulejmanovic, Tim LaClair, Mingkan Zhang, Lingshi Wang, Van Baxter, Bo Shen, Xiaobing Liu, Jeff Munk and Jim Parks.
Early Career Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering, September 2022
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, UT-ORII Bredesen Center, May 2022
ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award, 2021
UT Battelle Technology Commercialization Award, December 2021
UT Battelle Technology Commercialization Award, December 2018
Ritter von Rittinger Award, 2017, Building Equipment Research Group for contributions to heat pump market development, technology advancement or application, awarded by the Executive Committee for the OECD IEA Technical Collaboration Program on Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT-TCP)
ORNL Awards Night – Mentor of Student Researchers, awarded by ORNL Leadership Team, October 2016
ORNL Significant Event Award, awarded by ORNL Leadership Team for “significant contribution to ORNL”, October 2014
World Record as pilot-motor of FAI Class IE, Human Powered Rotorcraft, Duration: 49.9 seconds, June 2012 (Team Gamera, University of Maryland human-powered helicopter)
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 2012, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
BS, Environmental Science, 2004, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Professional Service
Co-director, Stor4Build Consortium
Member, ASHRAE Technical Activities Committee (TAC)
Secretary, ASHRAE TC 6.9 Thermal Storage
Chair, ASHRAE SPC 233
Steering Committee, ACEEE Hot Water Forum
Corresponding Member: ASHRAE TC 1.13, TC8.3, SPC 40, SPC 118.1
Session chair/organizer: Herrick Conferences at Purdue, ASHRAE Annual and Winter conferences, ACEEE Hot Water Forum, ACEEE Hot Air Forum, ASME IMECE, ASME InterPACK, International Sorption Heat Pump Conference (ISHPC), IMPRES Conference.
Journal article reviewer: Nature Energy (Nature Publishing Group), Communications Engineering (Nature Publishing Group), Applied Energy (Elsevier), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier), International Journal of Refrigeration (Elsevier), Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), Energy (Elsevier), Sustainable Energy and the Built Environment (ASHRAE/Taylor and Francis), Drying Technology (Taylor and Francis).
Trademarks and Patents
Li, Yuzhan, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Monojoy Goswami, Navin Kumar, Timothy J LaClair, Orlando Rios. Stable salt hydrate-based thermal energy storage materials. US Patent 11,560,503, granted January 24, 2023. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210340423A1/en
Momen, Ayyoub; Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Ed Vineyard, Roger Kisner. Dryer using high frequency vibration. US Patent 10,520,252 B2, granted December 31, 2019.
Momen, Ayyoub; Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Omar A. Abdelaziz, Edward A Vineyard, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Adewale O. Odukomaiya. Near isothermal combined compressed gas/pumped-hydro electricity storage with waste heat recovery capabilities, US Patent 10,519,923 B2, granted December 31, 2019.
Beers, David G., David Scott Dunn, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Philip R. Boudreaux, Bo Shen. Dryer appliances including an air circulation duct, US Patent 10,494,756 B2, granted December 3, 2019.
Gluesenkamp, K.R. Configuration of dishwasher to improve energy efficiency of water heating, US Patent 9,949,611, granted April 24, 2018.
Publications
Other Publications
Jason Hirschey, Zhenning Li, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Tim J. LaClair, Samuel Graham (2023). "Demand Reduction and Energy Saving Potential of Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pumps" International Journal of Refrigeration https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2023.01.026
Ayyoub M. Momen, Viral K. Patel, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Donald Erdman III, James Kiggans, Jr., and Geoffrey Ormston (2022). “Fabric Properties and Electric Efficiency Limits of Mechanical Moisture Extraction from Fabrics” Drying Technology https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2021.2005620
Odukomaiya, Adewale; Jason Woods, Nelson James, Sumanjeet Kaur, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Navin Kumar, Sven Mumme, Roderick Jackson, Ravi Prasher (2021). “Addressing Energy Storage Needs at Lower Cost via On-Site Thermal Energy Storage in Buildings,” Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 5315-5329. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EE01992A
Gluesenkamp, Kyle R.; Kashif Nawaz (2021). “Separate sensible and latent cooling: Carnot limits and system taxonomy,” International Journal of Refrigeration, 127, p. 128-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2021.02.019
Zhenning Li, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Kashif Nawaz (2021). “Analysis of Basic Airflow Configurations for Separate Sensible and Latent Cooling Systems with Indoor Air Recirculation,” International Journal of Refrigeration, 128, p. 78-88 (July 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2020.12.026
Gluesenkamp, Kyle R., Viral K. Patel, Ayyoub M. Momen (2020). "Efficiency Limits of Evaporative Fabric Drying Methods," Drying Technology, (November) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2020.1839486
Philip Boudreaux, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Viral K. Patel, Bo Shen (2020). “Measurement and Analysis of Clothes Dryer Air Leakage,” Drying Technology. (April 2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2020.1753765
Gluesenkamp, Kyle R.; Andrea Frazzica, Andreas Velte, Steven Metcalf, Zhiyao Yang, Mina Rouhani, Corey Blackman, Ming Qu, Eric Laurenz, Angeles Rivero‐Pacho, Sam Hinmers, Robert Critoph, Majid Bahrami, Gerrit Füldner, and Ingemar Hallin (2020). “Experimentally Measured Thermal Masses of Adsorption Heat Exchangers,” Energies, 2020 v.13, 1150. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/5/1150/pdf, doi:10.3390/en13051150
Kumar, Navin; Jason Hirschey, Tim J. LaClair, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Samuel Graham (2019). “Review of Stability and Thermal Conductivity Enhancements for Salt Hydrates,” Journal of Energy Storage, v. 24, 100794 (August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.100794