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# Thermo-Fluids Engineer

- Nairobi, Nairobi
- Full-Time

Engineer responsible for thermal and airflow performance of reactors and ventilation for the product team. Work on modelling, validating, and turning thermal and fluid results into design decisions to improve CO2 capture efficiency.

## What you'll do

- Design and optimise air distribution hardware for uniform flow
- Model flow through porous sorbent structures and suppress recirculation
- Specify insulation, steam distribution and purge strategies
- Set up, run and post-process CFD simulations and document workflows
- Plan tests, specify instrumentation, and validate performance against data

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Strong grounding in fluid mechanics and heat transfer
- Working knowledge of CAD such as SolidWorks or Inventor
- Proficiency building calculation tools in Excel or Python
- Hands-on experience with commercial CFD package preferred

## Skills

- CFD
- Ansys Fluent
- SolidWorks
- Inventor
- Excel
- Python
- pressure and temperature instrumentation
- heat and mass transfer

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- [Octavia Carbon Octavia Carbon develops, manufactures, and deploys Direct Air Capture systems that extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and demonstrates geological storage of captured CO2. The company focuses on designing… View company page](https://www.startupjobs.ke/companies/octavia-carbon)

- **Work mode**: On-site

- **Languages**: English

- **Location**: Nairobi, Nairobi

- **Employment type**: Full-Time

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