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 (atoms to acres), 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 (atoms to acres), and we are highly motivated to work with researchers and companies from the entire value chain.
GROUP PICTURES & PUBLICATIONS |
NEWS & OUTREACHTom has published his first solo author paper on CO2 electrolyzer stability in Nature Chemical Engineering.
Congrats to Henri Pelzer on his publication in Nature Energy on heating in large-scale electrolyzers! Congrats to Dr. Japer Biemolt and co-authors for their publication on salt precipitation in ACS Energy Letters. And good luck Jasper on his next postdoc in Peter Strasser's group at TU Berlin! Dr. Maryam Abdinejad begun her Assistant Professor position at DTU, good luck Maryam. Congratulations to Sid and Hugo on their PhD Graduations, and to Hugo for a cum laude distinction! Dr. Mengran Li has begun his Assistant Professor position at the University of Melbourne, good luck Aaron! |
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