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Travis W. Knight
Acting Director, NE
Assistant Professor, ME
300 Main Street, Room A120
Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
Phone 803.777.1465
Fax 803.777.0106
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The University of South Carolina
Department of Mechanical Engineering
300 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29208
Ph 803.777.4185
Fax 803.777.0106
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Travis W. Knight
Acting Director, Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Knight's research and interests are in the areas of advanced nuclear fuels and materials, reactor design, advanced fuel cycles, space nuclear power and propulsion, and application of nuclear power in future energy economies for sustainability including the production of hydrogen from nuclear energy.
Dr. Knight is the acting director of the Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program.
Education
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Ph.D.,
Nuclear
Engineering
Science,
University
of
Florida,
2000
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M.S.,
Nuclear
Engineering
Science,
University
of
Florida,
1995
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B.S.,
Nuclear
Engineering,
University
of
Florida,
1994
Selected Publications
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Foley,
T. Q.
and T.
W.
Knight,
"Fuel
Cycle
Analysis
of
GFR
Using
Advanced
Fuels",
Progress
in
Nuclear
Energy,
in press
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Vasudevamurthy,
G., T.
W.
Knight,
“Production
of High
Density
Uranium
Carbide
compacts
for use
in
Composite
Nuclear
Fuels”,
Nuclear
Technology,
in press
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Vasudevamurthy,
G., T.
W.
Knight,
E.
Roberts,
and T.
Adams,
“Laboratory
Production
of
Zirconium
Carbide
Compacts
for Use
in
Composite
Nuclear
Fuels”,
Journal
of
Nuclear
Materials,
347,
1-2,
2008,
pp.
241-247
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Vasudevamurthy,
G. and
T. W.
Knight,
“Effect
of
system
parameters
on size
distribution
of 304
Stainless
Steel
particles
produced
by
Electrical
Discharge
Mechanism”,
Materials
Letters,
61, 27,
November
2007
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Lobach,
S. Y.,
T. W.
Knight,
N.
Jacob,
and E.
Athon,
Advanced
TRISO
Fuels
with
Zirconium
Carbide
for High
Temperature
Reactors”,
Proceedings
of
Global
2007
Advanced
Nuclear
Fuel
Cycles
and
Systems,
September
9-13,
2007
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Lovett,
H. A.,
T. W.
Knight,
M. A.
Garland,
and S.
Mirzadeh,
"Evaluation
of
Tellurium-125
Metastable
Production
Pathways",
Transactions
Of the
American
Nuclear
Society
2007
Winter
Meeting,
Boston,
MA, June
24-28,
2007
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Curtis,
T.D.
and
T. W.
Knight,
Uranium
Requirement
for a
Hydrogen
Economy,
Transactions
Of the
American
Nuclear
Society
2005
Winter
Meeting,
November
13-17,
2005
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Khan, J., S. Pakala, T. W. Knight, J. Tulenko, “Enhanced Thermal Conductivity for LWR Fuel,” Transactions Of The American Nuclear Society 2005 Winter Meeting, Washington, DC November 13-17, 2005
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Eargle, J., M. Gorensek, and T. W. Knight, "HyS Thermochemical-Hybrid Cycle Using Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis and Pinch Technology," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 2005 Winter Meeting, November 13-17, 2005
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Knight, T. W., M. Garland, and A. Bayoumi, “The Nuclear Sun Shines Bright on South Carolina,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, June 2005
- Anghaie, S., T. W. Knight, R. Norring, and B. M. Smith, "Optimum Utilization of Nuclear Fuel with Gas and Vapor Core Reactors," Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 47, No. 1-4, pp. 74-90, 2005
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Knight,
T. W.
and S.
Anghaie,
“Processing
and
Fabrication
of Mixed
Uranium/Refractory
Metal
Carbide
Fuels
with
Liquid-Phase
Sintering”
Journal
of
Nuclear
Materials,
306,
November
2002,
pp.
54-60
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Knight,
T. W.,
G. R.
Dalton,
and J.
S.
Tulenko,
"Virtual
Radiation
Fields--A
Virtual
Environment
Tool for
Radiological
Analysis
and
Simulation,"
Nuclear
Technology,
117, 2,
February
1997
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