Gregory P. Thiel

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Gregory P. Thiel is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory P. Thiel has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Water Science and Technology, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gregory P. Thiel's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (13 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (8 papers). Gregory P. Thiel is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (13 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (8 papers). Gregory P. Thiel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and Germany. Gregory P. Thiel's co-authors include John H. Lienhard, Syed M. Zubair, Addison K. Stark, Ronan K. McGovern, Amit Kumar, Emily W. Tow, Leonardo D. Banchik, G. Prakash Narayan, Hyung Won Chung and Karan H. Mistry and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Gregory P. Thiel

27 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat

2021 201 citations Gregory P. Thiel, Addison K. Stark Joule profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory P. Thiel United States	16	924	810	671	534	259	29	1.7k
Ronan K. McGovern United States	20	1.5k 1.6×	797 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	478 0.9×	345 1.3×	31	1.9k
Ibrahim S. Al-Mutaz Saudi Arabia	21	834 0.9×	415 0.5×	461 0.7×	347 0.6×	165 0.6×	63	1.4k
Mudhar A. Al‐Obaidi Iraq	29	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	667 1.0×	735 1.4×	337 1.3×	156	2.3k
Muhammad Qasim United Arab Emirates	15	1.5k 1.7×	693 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	333 0.6×	708 2.7×	37	2.3k
Muhammad Burhan Saudi Arabia	30	1.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	463 0.7×	875 1.6×	508 2.0×	67	2.6k
Noora Darwish United Arab Emirates	8	910 1.0×	420 0.5×	675 1.0×	211 0.4×	266 1.0×	16	1.3k
Yasser Elhenawy Egypt	22	465 0.5×	718 0.9×	472 0.7×	225 0.4×	266 1.0×	58	1.3k
Zulfan Adi Putra Malaysia	20	363 0.4×	268 0.3×	403 0.6×	245 0.5×	187 0.7×	73	1.1k
Jungbin Kim South Korea	16	989 1.1×	437 0.5×	679 1.0×	131 0.2×	287 1.1×	30	1.2k
Young‐Deuk Kim South Korea	33	1.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	1.3k 2.4×	269 1.0×	105	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thiel, Gregory P. & Christopher M. Atkinson. (2021). The potential for energy savings in U.S. houses by using isothermal dehumidification. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 27(6). 776–787. 2 indexed citations

Thiel, Gregory P. & Addison K. Stark. (2021). To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat. Joule. 5(3). 531–550. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

Kumar, Amit, Katherine R. Phillips, Gregory P. Thiel, Uwe Schröder, & John H. Lienhard. (2019). Publisher Correction: Direct electrosynthesis of sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid from brine streams. Nature Catalysis. 2(3). 278–278. 4 indexed citations

Thiel, Gregory P., et al.. (2018). Minimum energy requirements for desalination of brackish groundwater in the United States with comparison to international datasets. Water Research. 141. 387–404. 35 indexed citations

Tow, Emily W., David M. Warsinger, Jaichander Swaminathan, et al.. (2018). Comparison of fouling propensity between reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, and membrane distillation. Journal of Membrane Science. 556. 352–364. 134 indexed citations

Du, Fengmin, et al.. (2018). Resource recovery from desalination brine: energy efficiency and purification process integration for sodium hydroxide production. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

Thiel, Gregory P., et al.. (2017). Utilization of Desalination Brine for Sodium Hydroxide Production: Technologies, Engineering Principles, Recovery Limits, and Future Directions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(12). 11147–11162. 104 indexed citations

Thiel, Gregory P. & John H. Lienhard. (2016). An Effectiveness–Number of Transfer Units Relationship for Evaporators With Non-negligible Boiling Point Elevation Increases. Journal of Heat Transfer. 138(12). 3 indexed citations

Lienhard, John H., et al.. (2016). Low Carbon Desalination: Status and Research, Development, and Demonstration Needs, Report of a workshop conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in association with the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance. 25 indexed citations

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Rohlfs, Wilko, Gregory P. Thiel, & John H. Lienhard. (2016). Modeling reverse osmosis element design using superposition and an analogy to convective heat transfer. Journal of Membrane Science. 512. 38–49. 11 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Bilal A., Syed M. Zubair, Gregory P. Thiel, & John H. Lienhard. (2016). The reversed chemical engine cycle with application to desalination processes. Desalination. 398. 256–264. 3 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P.. (2015). Salty solutions. Physics Today. 68(6). 66–67. 7 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P., Syed M. Zubair, & John H. Lienhard. (2014). An Analysis of Likely Scalants in the Treatment of Produced Water From Nova Scotia. Heat Transfer Engineering. 36(7-8). 652–662. 12 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P., Syed M. Zubair, & John H. Lienhard. (2014). An Analysis of Likely Scalants in the Treatment of Produced Water from Nova Scotia. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P., Ronan K. McGovern, Syed M. Zubair, & John H. Lienhard. (2014). Thermodynamic equipartition for increased second law efficiency. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P., Ronan K. McGovern, Syed M. Zubair, & John H. Lienhard. (2014). Thermodynamic equipartition for increased second law efficiency. Applied Energy. 118. 292–299. 41 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P., et al.. (2013). Effect of mass extractions and injections on the performance of a fixed-size humidification–dehumidification desalination system. Desalination. 314. 50–58. 24 indexed citations

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Thiel, Gregory P. & John H. Lienhard. (2012). Entropy generation in condensation in the presence of high concentrations of noncondensable gases. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 55(19-20). 5133–5147. 55 indexed citations

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Narayan, G. Prakash, Karim M. Chehayeb, Ronan K. McGovern, et al.. (2012). Thermodynamic balancing of the humidification dehumidification desalination system by mass extraction and injection. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 57(2). 756–770. 102 indexed citations

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Mistry, Karan H., Ronan K. McGovern, Gregory P. Thiel, et al.. (2011). Entropy Generation Analysis of Desalination Technologies. Entropy. 13(10). 1829–1864. 241 indexed citations

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