Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Mike Powell joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 1990 as a development engineer working on projects related to fluid mechanics, mixing, nuclear waste simulants, and microfabricated heat exchangers and reactors. In 1999, left PNNL to work for MesoSystems Technology before returning to PNNL in 2005 as a member of the Microtechnology team and now leads the Process Intensification team. His work has included design and testing of compact heat exchangers, reactors, and combustors as well as numerical modeling of heat and mass transfer within micro-channel devices. He has BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Washington State Univ.