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Background
Javit Drake is a lecturer and battery researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and until 2022 led and advised product development in the Duracell, device, and Gillette organizations of Procter & Gamble. He earned his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, following a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT.
Interests
Drake’s research and teaching focuses on the theory, experimentation, and design of products, such as rechargeable batteries. His expertise includes mathematical models and numerical simulation of chemical transport, reaction, and thermodynamics in multicomponent, multiphase systems. While at Procter & Gamble, Drake led and advised product development for superior performing consumer products, including long-lasting, powerful batteries and lubricated, effective shaving cartridges. His co-developed electrochemical models, co-authored publications, and international conference presentations have progressed understanding and concepts for flow and convection batteries with eventual applicability for the electrical grid and vehicles. At MIT since 2010, Drake created and has instructed a top-rated course in theory, experimentation, and design of products, such as rechargeable batteries.
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Sample Work
Publication
Convection-enhanced electrochemical energy storage devices and related methods
Brushett, Fikile Richard, Brushett, Fikile Richard, Weiran Gao, Javit Drake, and Michael Orella. “Convection-enhanced electrochemical energy storage devices and related methods.” U.S. Patent Application No. 17/504,909, filed April 21, 2022.
Publication
Conditions for High Rate, High Capacity Li-Ion Convection Cells through Dimensional Analysis
Gao, Weiran, Javit Drake, and Fikile R. Brushett. “Conditions for High Rate, High Capacity Li-Ion Convection Cells through Dimensional Analysis.” ECS Meeting Abstracts. No. 3. IOP Publishing, 2021.
Publication
Expanding the Cell Design Space: Modeling the Impact of Electrolyte Convection on the Performance of Intercalation Batteries
Gao, Weiran, Javit Drake, and Fikile R. Brushett. “Expanding the Cell Design Space: Modeling the Impact of Electrolyte Convection on the Performance of Intercalation Batteries.” ECS Meeting Abstracts. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2021.
Patent
CONVECTION-ENHANCED ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS
Publication number: 20220123377Abstract: A convection enhanced energy storage system includes an electrochemical cell with a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode, a tank holding an electrolyte, and a pump connected to the electrochemical cell and the tank to circulate the electrolyte. The electrochemical cell has large ? and ? values, which has high transport resistance from diffusion and there is limited salt in the electrolyte solution to compensate. A computer system can implement a model of a convection enhanced energy storage system, for example for simulation to select parameters for such an energy storage system. The model includes: a convection term in a Nernst-Planck equation representing the convection enhanced energy storage system; boundary conditions of a cell of the convection enhanced energy storage system to account for forced convection at boundaries; gauging conservation of anions within an external tank; and calculating electrode active area as a function of porosity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fikile Richard Brushett, Weiran Gao, Javit Drake, Michael Orella