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e-Refinery at TU Delft develops electrochemical conversion technology for the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels

The energy transition has far-stretching implications for chemical companies. The Delft e-Refinery institute brings researchers and industrial partners together in order to develop the required technologies and human capital. Researchers in the e-Refinery initiative focus their research on the electrochemical conversion of sustainable electricity, water and air into fuels and chemical building blocks, from the molecular scale to large-scale system integration. Implementing e-Refinery will serve three important challenges that the society is facing: CO2 neutral fuels, seasonal energy storage and a defossilized chemical industry.

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Grant for MacGhyver: processing waste water and making hydrogen at the same time in a microfluidic membrane-free electrolyser

Within a highly competitive pathfinder call, the MacGhyver project of Dr. Willem Haverkort has been awarded over 0.5 million Euro for a PhD student and 1.5 year postdoc at TU Delft

e-Refinery Symposium

e-Refinery Symposium The e-Refinery Symposium took place on March 14 and 15. The symposium was organized to discuss our common interests in scalable electrochemical technologies, with a centred discussion on the interaction between the e-Refinery infrastructures and the needs of the industry. From CO2 to Plastics and Laptops Day one Day two Recordings Poster sessions From CO2 to Plastics and Laptops Next to the generating power and heat, fossil fuels (hydrocarbons) also serve as feedstocks in all kinds of industrial processes, ultimately providing society with plastics, laptops, televisions – tangible things that can’t be made with green electricity alone. CO 2 conversion by means of electrocatalysis is where renewable energy meets renewable feedstocks meets CO 2 emission reduction. ‘Our world is based on carbon,’ says Tom Burdyny. ‘And the only way to replace carbon renewably is by converting captured CO 2 .’ One way to do that is the so-called reverse water-gas-shift reaction, in which CO 2 and hydrogen are converted into carbon monoxide and water. You can then use carbon monoxide and hydrogen to create a large variety of hydrocarbons and compounds containing oxygen. But this is not as good a solution as industry would want. Electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 is a promising alternative in that it allows the direct production of multi-carbon compounds such as ethylene. Read the article Large Scale Storage Labs ESP lab 24/7 & H 2 facilities of the Green Village Electrochemical Flow Systems Microbial Electrochemistry & CO 2 Electrolysis Recordings Day 1 Recordings Day 2 Password for both recordings: e-Refinery Poster sessions "A great social event that connects scientists and industry working on different electrochemical aspects. I am glad I had the opportunity to share our work with this enthusiastic audience." Davide Ripepi "The poster sessions during the e-refinery symposium were really interesting. There were people from different backgrounds, working on different aspects of sustainability, such as chemical synthesis, process modelling, techno-economic analysis, scale-up, etc. I believe the symposium provided a great platform for inter-disciplinary interaction and sharing of knowledge that is necessary for the transition towards a sustainable future." Asvin Sajeev Kumar
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Publications

Effect of different alkali metal cations on the oxygen evolution activity and battery capacity of nickel electrodes in concentrated hydroxide electrolytes

A.Mangel Raventos, R.Kortlever

Operando isotope selective ammonia quantification in nitrogen reduction studies via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Davide Ripepi, Riccardo Zaffaroni, Martin Kolen, Joost Middelkoop and Fokko M. Mulder

Polymer Modification of Surface Electronic Properties of Electrocatalysts

Anirudh Venugopal, Laurentius H. T. Egberts, Jittima Meeprasert, Evgeny A. Pidko, Bernard Dam, Thomas Burdyny, Vivek Sinha, Wilson A. Smith
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e-Refinery Lecture June 7: Analysis of high current density CO2 electrolysis devices via a carbon balance and in-situ synchrotron based x-ray diffraction and x-ray scattering approaches
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PowerWeb Lecture: The impact of climate uncertainty on power system operations
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Van 't Hoff Lecture 2022: Liquid processing of 2D materials for device applications: Making useful stuff using kitchen blenders and pencils
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