Kenny Gruchalla

Kenny Gruchalla, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Assistant Professor Adjunct, University of Colorado at Boulder
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401-3305

Curriculum Vitae (pdf updated 10/03/19)
Research Video Publications Web Projects



Professional

CatCost
CatCost
F. Baddour, K. Van Allsburg, N. Wunder, J. Yarbrough, M. Jankousky, K. Gruchalla, K. Potter, J. Schaidle, E. Tan, M. Talmadge, J. Hensley, S. Habas, L. Snowden-Swan, J. Frye. 2019.

CatCost is a state-of-the-art cost estimation tool designed to reduce the cost uncertainty associated with pre-commercial catalyst materials. The tool combines industry-standard cost estimation methods and resources into an intuitive suite of tools to bring actionable cost insight to every step of catalyst research and development. CatCost™ allows the rapid development of comprehensive catalyst cost estimates. It incorporates detailed insight into manufacturing methods, especially for precommercial catalysts, without requiring any process design experience.

Surface
Surface Phase Explorer
G.A. Ferguson, V. Vorotnikov, N. Wunder, J. Clark, K. Gruchalla, T. Bartholomew, D.J. Robichaud, and G.T. Beckham. 2016.
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Understanding the coadsorption of two species on a surface requires the exploration of phase diagrams. To facilitate exploration this web tool creates interactive and downloadable phase diagrams from ab initio data. With SPE it is possible to create surface ab initio phase diagrams for single species adsorbing to a surface as well as coadsorption of two species to a surface, and visualize the Wulff Construction of the surface at any temperature and pressure. Explore the entire temperature and pressure range for all adsorbates using interactive and downloadable charts.


Personal

Providenciales,Turks
Arenophilia
K. Gruchalla. 2020.

Personal collection of sand digital microscopy.

Walking
Walking the Digits of π
K. Gruchalla. 2019.

The visualization shows a deterministic walk generated by the first 100,000 digit expansion of π. The walk takes a step in one of ten 36° increments depending on the digit. The colormap repeats every 10,000 digits.