Biography

Zoelle Wong is a Rotorcraft PhD Student in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is a recipient of the Presidential Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). She received a BSc degree in Aerospace Engineering and a BA in Mandarin from UT Austin. Her research involves modelling supercritical CO₂ and SF₆ in the application of high voltage gas circuit breakers.

In her free time, she enjoys watching C-dramas, reading, origami, watercolor painting, learning languages, going on long walks and trying new things. She’s always excited to visit Chinese bakeries and get boba or coffee.

Research

Zoelle is working on the project, Tough and Ecological Supercritical Line Breaker for AC (TESLA) in collaboration between ARPA-E, Georgia Tech, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of this project is to experiment with using supercritical CO₂ instead of SF₆ as an arc quenching medium. Specifically, Zoelle’s research is aimed towards investigating the fluid dynamics inside the circuit breaker and to understand arc quenching mechanisms with supercritical CO₂.

More information can be found here:
https://www.ece.gatech.edu/news/658887/researchers-receive-arpa-e-funding-develop-eco-friendly-high-voltage-circuit-breaker

Publications

Wong, Z. F. G., Guo, N., Neall, S., Jin, Z., Graber, L., and Rauleder, J. “CFD simulation and design of a new supercritical CO2 circuit breaker contact and nozzle system” In 2024 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2024 DOI: 10.1109/EIC58847.2024.10579111

Wong, Z.F.G., Berisford, D.F., Goldstein, D.B., Trafton, L.M., Varghese, P., Hand, K.P., Foster J.T., Furst B. I., Daimaru T., Macias A., and Hsu A., “Thermal Analysis of Experimental Apparatus Simulating Icy World Conditions.” Poster presentation presented at: Lunar Planetary Science Conference; 2022. March 7-11, The Woodlands, TX.

Favorite Cereal

Kashi Grain