Solar Asphalt System Pro vides Green-Heat Energy Source
Researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute are seeking additional funding and a suitable parking lot for a large-scale test of harvesting heat energy from solar-heated asphalt pavement. The search follows several years of successful computer modeling and laboratory mock-ups.
“We have been working on heat flow through pavements for several years,” says Rajib B. Mallick, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at WPI’s Worcester, Mass., campus. “Michael S. Hulen, president of Novotech Inc. (Acton, Mass.) came up with the idea and asked us to look at it.”