Igor Vaisman

About Igor Vaisman

I am HII Fellow for Thermal Management and Vapor Cycle Technologies and ASHRAE Fellow. I hold a PhD degree in HVAC & R and Cryogenic Systems and a Mechanical Engineer degree in Cryogenics. My passion is solving problems, innovations, new technology and new product development. My experience includes research, development, steady-state and dynamic analysis, optimal design, prototyping, and testing of refrigeration, heat pump, air conditioning, ventilating, cryogenic, Rankine, Brayton, super-critical power generation, integrated power & thermal, and CHP systems & components for various land, sea, aerospace, and defense applications. In addition, my experience includes development, design, balancing, and commissioning of experimental & testing stands for thermal systems and components. Also, I have programming experience (MATLAB, SIMULINK, EES, Python, VB, VBA, C/C++, and FORTRAN) and designed various computational tools for steady-state and transient analysis, sizing and mapping thermal systems and components, and data reduction tools for data analyses. I published more than 20 papers and obtained more than 50 patents (excluding current pending patents). Membership: ASHRAE, IIR.

Experience

1. Hii Fellow for Thermal Management Technologies

   Mission Technologies, a division of HII

   Feb 2025 — Present

Education

• School 33, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, USSR

  High School Diploma

  1967 — 1977

• Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration, Odessa, Ukraine, USSR

  PhD

  1986 — 1990

• Omsk State University of Technology, Omsk, Russia, USSR

  Mechanical Engineer

  1977 — 1982

Skills

• Commissioning
• Electronics
• Pumps
• Labview
• Compressors
• Patent Search, Analysis, and Application
• Thermodynamics
• Rankine Cycle Systems
• Matlab
• Visual Basic
• R&D Project Planning and Execution
• Thermal
• Heat Pumps
• Air Compressors
• Matlab/Simulink, C/C++, Vba/Excel, Vb
• Testing Thermal Systems
• Thermal Management
• Finite Element Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Trans-Critical Power Generation Cycles
• Testing
• Mechanical Engineering
• Engineering
• Cryogenic Systems
• Aerospace
• Heat Exchangers
• Modelling Transient Thermal Processes
• Hvac Systems
• Trans-Critical Refrigeration Cycles
• R&D
• Combined Heat and Power Systems
• Diagnosis of Thermal Systems
• Refrigeration
• Thermal System Design
• Root Cause Analysis
• Advanced Refrigeration Cycles
• Thermal Design
• Refrigeration Systems
• Experimentation
• Heat Transfer