About

Dr. Clarissa Belloni is an Associate Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where she teaches mechanical engineering students and supervises student research within the Hydro and Aero Energy Group. She is an IEC subject matter expert responsible for developing industrial standards for hydrokinetic resource assessments. Her professional background includes serving as Head of R&D at a German start-up company, where she developed hydrokinetic river turbines for rural electrification, and working as an energy research specialist at GE Global Research Europe. Dr. Belloni holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and both a BSc and MSc from the Technical University of Munich. She has authored and co-authored publications and patents in the fields of applied fluid dynamics and thermodynamic processes. Her research and teaching focus on thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and turbomachinery, and she has been recognized with the Michael J. Moran Excellence in Teaching Award in 2024.

Research topics

• Engineering
• Engineering management
• Medical education
• Mathematics
• Environmental science
• Marketing
• Software engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Waste management
• Ecology
• Psychology
• Mathematics education
• Business
• Medicine
• Environmental engineering
• Biology
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• Innovative microbial water quality management in water distribution systems using in-pipe hydropowered UV disinfection: envisioning futuristic water-energy systems

  Environmental Technology · 2024 · 5 citations

  • Environmental science
  • Environmental engineering
  • Waste management

  for 254 and 285 nm, respectively. Assessment of existing markets of UV disinfection systems and pico-hydro turbines demonstrated that hydropowered UV systems are already theoretically feasible for scales at point-of-entry (POE) and above. Economic feasibility will improve if turbines and/or UV system efficiencies improve. Prototype hydropower UV LED systems ranged from $145 to 220 depending on the UV LED reactor, and the battery system added $81. This study demonstrates the practicality of sustainable, renewable energy POU UV disinfection technology that can benefit decentralised, off-grid, rural and remote communities. The system may also scale up to provide renewable energy disinfection at larger scales, such as buildings and water distribution systems, for protecting human health in highly populated areas.

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• The Effect of Humanitarian Engineering on Female Learning and Confidence

  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings · 2020 · 2 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Medical education
  • Psychology
  • Engineering

  For the past six semesters, she has worked as a teaching associate for OSU's fundamentals of

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• System Analysis of Waste Heat Applications With LNG Regasification

  2009-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access

  The combination of the continuously growing demand of energy in the world, the depletion of oil and its sharp price increase, as well as the urgent need for cleaner and more efficient fuels have boosted the global trade of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Nowadays, there is an increasing interest on the design philosophy of the LNG receiving terminals, due to the fact that the existing technologies either use seawater as heating source or burn part of the fuel for regasifying LNG, thus wasting the cryogenic energy of LNG and causing air pollution or harm to marine life. This investigation addresses the task of developing novel systems able to simultaneously regasify LNG and generate electric power in the most efficient and environmentally friendly way. Existing and proposed technologies for integrated LNG regasification and power generation were identified and simple, efficient, safe and compact alternatives were selected for further analysis. A baseline scenario for integrated LNG regasification and power generation was established and simulated. Various novel configurations using Rankine and Brayton cycles were created, modeled and compared to the baseline scenario in terms of LNG regasification rate, efficiency and power output. A study case with a simple and compact design was selected, preliminarily designed and analyzed. The performance and design characteristics of the study case were then compared to the baseline case. The results show that the study case results in a smaller footprint of the plant, at the same time offering a simple design solution though with lower efficiencies.

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• Thermoeconomic Evaluation of CO2 Compression Strategies for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Applications

  2009-01-01 · 28 citations

  article

  CO2 compression significantly contributes to the overall efficiency penalty and capital cost increase resulting from CO2 capture. Performance improvement measures for this process step hence have the potential of considerably improving the overall economic picture for CO2-lean power generation from fossil fuels. The present paper gives an insight into the thermodynamics of CO2 compression in a natural gas combined cycle power plant with post-combustion CO2 capture. The work aims at gaining a better understanding of the boundary conditions, thermodynamic limitations, and performance entitlement governing the CO2 compression process. With the help of process simulation, different technically feasible strategies for compressing CO2 are evaluated, quantified, and compared against their thermodynamic entitlement; the compression power reduction and the maximum cost allowable for the performance improvement measures suggested are estimated.

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Frequent coauthors

• Matthias Finkenrath

  2 shared

• Miguel Angel González-Salazar

  Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

  1 shared

• Daniel Ma

  The Ohio State University

  1 shared

• Francesco Gamberi

  1 shared

• Derek Breid

  Saint Vincent College

  1 shared

• Tara Wilson

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  1 shared

• Natalie M. Hull

  The Ohio State University

  1 shared

• Enrico Gori

  1 shared

Labs

• Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringPI

Awards & honors

• Michael J. Moran Excellence in Teaching Award (2024)