In het 3mE-gebouw vond afgelopen jaar een aantal interne verhuizingen plaats. Een daarvan was de verhuizing van de Golfstroomtank. De tank werd verplaatst van gebouw J naar de nabijgelegen API-hal in de Leeghwaterstraat om ruimte te maken voor projecten in het Vloeistofmechanica Lab. De Golfstroomtank is weer teruggekeerd naar zijn thuisbasis: het Scheepshydromechanica Lab.

His research is based on a previous ERC grant on graphene nanoparticles, in which centrifugation was used to sort particles by size classes.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Mahinder Ramdin (P&E) an NWO-xs grant for his ‘Green Ammonia Production’ project, GAPLiC. Ammonia is important in the production of fertiliser, and therefore mass food production, but the current ammonia production process consumes enormous amounts of energy - 1% of all the energy produced globally.

3mE researchers won second and fourth place in the Best Tech-idea 2022 competition run by Dutch science magazine, ‘KIJK’. Second place was awarded to Willem Haverkort for his work on hydrogen-production using membraneless electrolysis and fourth place goes to Farbod Alijani for his research on the use of graphene in detecting antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Wetenschappers van TU Delft en vier andere Nederlandse universiteiten werken samen om energie te besparen bij droogprocessen. In het ELECTRIFIED project zullen de onderzoekers de krachten van elektriciteit en elektrische velden gebruiken om doorbraaktechnologieën te ontwikkelen in de industrie.

NWO has awarded funding to six technology-science research projects from the Open Technology Programme. One of these is the e-HEAT project by researchers Jurriaan Peeters, Ruud Kortlever and Lorenzo Botto from the Process & Energy Department. In this project they are working on the development of large-scale CO2 electrolysers that enable large-scale energy storage on a seasonal time scale possible. The outcomes are expected to also benefit H2O electrolysers and fuel cells.