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BSChE University of Missouri, 1978
MSChE University of Wisconsin, 1980
PhD University of Wisconsin, 1984
Since joining the Physical and Chemical Properties Division in 1988, Dr. McLinden has focused on the properties of alternatives to the ozone-depleting CFC and HCFC refrigerants; this work has included the development of equations of state and other property models, and their implementation in the REFPROP database. He chairs the IEA (International Energy Agency) Annex 18-Thermophysical Properties of the Environmentally Acceptable Refrigerants and serves on ASHRAE committees concerned with refrigerants.
He leads the team responsible for the development of the REFPROP database. He has also designed and constructed a state-of-the-art dual-sinker densimeter for highly accurate measurements of fluid p-V-T properties over wide ranges of temperature and pressure. From 1984 to 1988, Dr. McLinden worked in the Thermal Machinery Group of NBS-Gaithersburg where he developed an equation of state for refrigerant mixtures, carried out analytical studies on the optimum thermodynamic characteristics of refrigerants, and constructed an experimental apparatus to measure evaporative heat transfer coefficients of refrigerant mixtures.
Dr. McLinden received the Department of Commerce Silver Medal and the NIST Applied Research Award for work related to the alternative refrigerants. He received the ASHRAE Journal Paper Award and the NIST Condon Award for the paper "CFCs-Quest for Alternatives." He was designated the 1995 Department of Commerce/NIST Federal Engineer of the Year
M.O. McLinden, S.A. Klein, E.W. Lemmon, and A.P. Peskin, "NIST Standard Reference Database 23, NIST thermodynamic and transport properties of refrigerants and refrigerant mixtures-REFPROP, version 6.0," Standard Reference Data Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology. (1998).
M.O. McLinden, E.W. Lemmon, and R.T. Jacobsen, "Thermodynamic properties for the alternative refrigerants," Proc. ASHRAE/NIST Refrigerants Conference: Refrigerants for the 21st Century, Gaithersburg, MD, 135-154 (1997).
B.A. Younglove and M.O. McLinden, "An international standard equation-of-state formulation of the thermodynamic properties of refrigerant 123 (2,2-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane)," J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 23, 731-779 (1994).
M.O. McLinden and N.V. Frederick, "Development of a dual-sinker densimeter for high-accuracy P-V-T measurements," Proc. 11th Symp. on Energy Eng. Sci., Argonne, IL, 63-69 (1993). M.O. McLinden, "Optimum refrigerants for non-ideal cycles: An analysis employing corresponding states," Proc. USNC/IIR-Purdue Refrigeration Conference and ASHRAE-Purdue CFC Conference, W. Lafayette, IN, 69-79 (1990).
M.O. McLinden and D.A. Didion, "CFCs: Quest for alternatives," ASHRAE J. 29, 32-42 (1987). G. Morrison and M.O. McLinden, "Application of a hard-sphere equation of state to refrigerants and refrigerant mixtures," Natl. Bur. Stand. Tech. Note 1226 (1986).
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mclinden@boulder.nist.gov NIST Physical and Chemical Properties Division Experimental Properties of Fluids Group Mail Stop 838.07 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305-3328 USA |
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