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Thomas Kolb is a researcher affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on engineering, with specialization in subfields including biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, materials chemistry, catalysis, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research topics such as thermochemical biomass conversion processes, catalysts for methane reforming, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, combustion and flame dynamics, subcritical and supercritical water processes, hybrid renewable energy systems, and heat transfer involving supercritical fluids.

Thomas Kolb has authored several papers, with some notable recent publications including:

  • State of the Art of Hydrogen Production via Pyrolysis of Natural Gas, 2020, ChemBioEng Reviews
  • Kinetic modelling of methanol synthesis over commercial catalysts: A critical assessment, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Verfahrensübersicht zur Erzeugung von Wasserstoff durch Erdgas-Pyrolyse, 2020, Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Renewable Power-to-Gas: A Technical and Economic Evaluation of Three Demo Sites Within the STORE&GO Project, 2021, Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Effect of calcium dispersion and graphitization during high-temperature pyrolysis of beech wood char on the gasification rate with CO2, 2020, Fuel

Their frequent coauthors include Siegfried Bajohr, S. Wachter, Tobias F. Jakobs, Frank Graf, and M. Dammann.

Thomas Kolb regularly publishes in scientific venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Fuel
  • Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
  • ChemBioEng Reviews

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

    Nate G. McDowell;William T. Pockman;Craig D. Allen;David D. Breshears

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Restoring Ecosystem Health in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwest

    W. Wallace Covington;Peter Z Fule;Margaret M Moore;Stephen C Hart

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

    Thomas E. Kolb;Christopher J. Fettig;Matthew P. Ayres;Barbara J. Bentz

  • Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality.

    Monica L. Gaylord;Thomas E. Kolb;William T. Pockman;Jennifer A. Plaut

  • The MODIS (Collection V005) BRDF/albedo product: Assessment of spatial representativeness over forested landscapes

    Miguel O. Román;Miguel O. Román;Crystal B. Schaaf;Curtis E. Woodcock;Alan H. Strahler

  • Physiological response to groundwater depth varies among species and with river flow regulation

    Jonathan L. Horton;Thomas E. Kolb;Stephen C. Hart

  • How is water-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems distributed and changing on Earth?

    Xuguang Tang;Hengpeng Li;Ankur R. Desai;Zoltan Nagy

  • Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency.

    Rossella Guerrieri;Rossella Guerrieri;Soumaya Belmecheri;Scott V. Ollinger;Heidi Asbjornsen

  • State of the Art of Hydrogen Production via Pyrolysis of Natural Gas

    Stefan Schneider;Siegfried Bajohr;Frank Graf;Thomas Kolb

  • Responses of riparian trees to interannual variation in ground water depth in a semi‐arid river basin

    J. L. Horton;T. E. Kolb;S. C. Hart

  • Limitations and perspectives about scaling ozone impacts in trees.

    T. E. Kolb;R. Matyssek

  • Influence of thinning and burning restoration treatments on presettlement ponderosa pines at the Gus Pearson Natural Area

    Shelly R. Feeney;Thomas E. Kolb;W. Wallace Covington;Michael R. Wagner

  • Concepts of forest health: Utilitarian and ecosystem perspectives

    T. E. Kolb;M. R. Wagner;W. W. Covington

  • Ponderosa pine mortality following fire in northern Arizona

    Charles W. McHugh;Thomas E. Kolb

  • Homeostatic maintenance of ponderosa pine gas exchange in response to stand density changes.

    Nate G. McDowell;Henry D. Adams;John D. Bailey;Marcey Hess

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabina Dore
Sabina Dore HydroFocus, Inc.
Stephen C. Hart
Stephen C. Hart University of California, Merced
Dimosthenis Trimis
Dimosthenis Trimis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Marcy E. Litvak
Marcy E. Litvak University of New Mexico
Norbert Willenbacher
Norbert Willenbacher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
George W. Koch
George W. Koch Northern Arizona University
Joel A. Biederman
Joel A. Biederman United States Department of Agriculture
Harald Horn
Harald Horn Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University

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