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Dear reader,
Wishing you a Happy New Year, bursting with fulfilling and exciting opportunities!
After (almost) passing the Corona crisis, the world has been facing another one in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis. However, this devastating news has made us more determined to accelerate the energy transition. We, the e-Refinery Institute, are ready more than ever to play our role in this. Let us make 2023 even more fruitful than 2022!
With kind regards,
Maryam Alimoradi Jazi |
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| What we do at e-Refinery |
| To highlight e-Refinery's achievements, a number of informative movies have been recorded where our PhD researchers explain their pioneering research. These short but clear explanations give a good idea of e-Refinery today. |
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| NWO Open Technology funding for Ludovic Jourdin to sustainably produce a versatile acid |
| With this funding, Ludovic Jourdin and co-applicants Johan Padding, Kunal Masania, Adrie Straathof and John Nijenhuis will develop a process to make hexanoic acid from CO2 and renewable electricity, and expects this to significantly expand the market. |
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| In the media: Ruud Kortlever investigates how to make fuel from CO2 and nitrogen |
In AD/Haagse Courant, Ruud Kortlever explains how to produce fuels if you do not use fossil fuels, one of the climate goals for 2050. In other words, how to store energy from electricity in a molecule, creating a reusable fuel.
Dutch only. |
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| Size-modified Poisson–Nernst–Planck approach for modeling a local electrode environment in CO2 electrolysis |
| Electrochemical reduction of CO2 heavily depends on the reaction conditions found near the electrode surface. These local conditions are affected by phenomena such as electric double layer formation and steric effects of the solution species, which in turn impact the passage of CO2 molecules to the catalytic surface. In this work, we present a modeling approach consisting of a set of size-modified Poisson–Nernst–Planck equations and the Frumkin interpretation of Tafel kinetics. We introduce a modification to the steric effects inside the transport equations, which results in more realistic concentration profiles. |
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| Waterman Sustainability Award for Ludovic Jourdin and Tom Burdyny |
| During the TU Delft Faculty AS' New Year's Breakfast on Monday 9 January, Ludovic Jourdin and Tom Burdyny jointly received this year's Waterman Sustainability Award. for their work on electrochemical conversion systems. |
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