To overcome challenges to our climate brought on by the extended use of fossil fuels, we require a new and innovative technological solutions to replace the plastics, transportation fuels and chemicals that make our world and our economy function, need to be made more sustainable and circular.
The Burdyny Energy Lab in the MECS Group at TU Delft is focused on researching technologies that are capable of replacing current fossil fuel manufacturing routes with processes that use renewable electricity as an input. These technologies use electricity to form chemical bonds (also known as electrocatalysis). Our primary research focus is on carbon-dioxide (CO2) electrolysis, which can convert CO2 into base chemicals such as CO and ethylene. We take a more engineering approach to the research problem and are focusing on a) scaling-up CO2 electrolyzers in the lab, b) understanding transport related phenomena occurring inside a CO2 electrolyzer, and c) assessing the impact electrolyzers on our global energy infrastructure. Our research approach extends to numerous physical scales, and we are highly motivated to work with researchers and companies from the entire value chain.
The Burdyny Energy Lab in the MECS Group at TU Delft is focused on researching technologies that are capable of replacing current fossil fuel manufacturing routes with processes that use renewable electricity as an input. These technologies use electricity to form chemical bonds (also known as electrocatalysis). Our primary research focus is on carbon-dioxide (CO2) electrolysis, which can convert CO2 into base chemicals such as CO and ethylene. We take a more engineering approach to the research problem and are focusing on a) scaling-up CO2 electrolyzers in the lab, b) understanding transport related phenomena occurring inside a CO2 electrolyzer, and c) assessing the impact electrolyzers on our global energy infrastructure. Our research approach extends to numerous physical scales, and we are highly motivated to work with researchers and companies from the entire value chain.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS |
NEWS & OUTREACHOur postdoc Dr. Maryam Abdinejad has taken up a postdoc at MIT starting Feb. 2023. Check out her two recent publications in Chemistry - A European Journal and Advanced Energy Materials!
Congratulations to Sid and Mark on their two ACS Energy Letters papers of spatial distributions and salt precipitations in zero-gap CO2 electrolyzers. There is now a group-run Instagram! |
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