Dr Peter Whittaker

Dr Peter Whittaker is a lecturer at the University of Western Australia and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation.

His core technical skills and experience include:

• Engineering education, particularly: thermodynamics, heat transfer, material science and numerical methods
• Experimental design of a high-pressure gas adsorption calorimeter and bench scale study of scaling potential in geothermal wells
• Author of multiple peer reviewed publications in the fields of thermal engineering, physical chemistry, desalination and design optimization
• Consulting work in building heating and cooling via geothermal HVAC (i.e. ground source heat pumps coupled to shallow geothermal wells)
• Research in district heating and cooling with geothermal energy, heat transfer in swimming pools, thermal desalination and thermodynamics of gas adsorption
• Primary data collection from hospital plant rooms, swimming pool plant rooms, waste water treatment plants and geothermal hot springs
• Experience with geothermal energy applications including flash steam, ORC and Kalina cycle power generation, direct heating, cooling via thermally driven chillers and heating and cooling via ground source heat pumps
• Design and optimization of power cycles and refrigeration cycles with various working fluids