Jorrit Bleeker
Background
I did the Bachelor Molecular Science and Technology and MSc Chemical Engineering both at the TU Delft. During my MSc I worked as teaching assistant for various courses and I did a honours project for DSM where my team and I made a temperature model of bread during baking. I completed my MSc thesis work with David (Designing a heat to power conversion battery), after which I finished my degree with the Erasmus+ programme doing Food & Biotechnology courses at the UCT Prague. After graduating I spent almost 2 years in the pharmaceutical industry, working as a process engineer for PM Group. While I liked my time in industry, researching something sustainable fits me better. Now I am pursuing a PhD on gas bubble behavior in renewable electrolysis.
Research interests
Electrolysis is a sustainable method of generating hydrogen or even reducing CO2 into usable molecules such as CO or ethylene. The energy efficiency of renewable electrolysis is limited by the resistance of the flow cell. Gas bubbles are a major contribution to this resistance, but also part of the process as H2 and CO2 are gasses themselves. Controlling the gas bubble release and mixing around the gas bubbles allows one to increase the current density, which is the aim of my project.
Jorrit Bleeker
- J.J.Bleeker@tudelft.nl
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TU Delft / Transport Phenomena (TP)
Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Van der Maasweg 9
2629 HZ Delft
Office F2.090