Solar and wind energy are incessant, but by nature intermittent resources. One way to store the temporary surplus of ‘green power’ lies in chemical bonds. Within this theme, the PhD student will work on the design, characterization and testing of new solid catalysts capable of turning carbon dioxide into fuels and base chemicals.
10 projects have been defined:
Catalysis by Metal-based Zeolites for Bulk Chemicals Synthesis from Carbon Dioxide and Renewably Resourced Hydrogen (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
A Multiscale Catalysis and Engineering Approach to CO2-to-X (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
Catalysis by defect oxides for methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide (Prof. Emiel Hensen)
Reinvestigating the Sabatier reaction for large-scale storage of renewable H2 (Prof. Emiel Hensen)
Modeling combinatorial complexity in hydrocarbon catalysis (Prof. Emiel Hensen)
High-temperature/high-pressure electrochemical COx reduction (Prof. Emiel Hensen)
A surface-science model for operando NAP-XPS studies of CO2 hydrogenation on dispersed oxides on a zirconia film (Prof. Emiel Hensen)
Unraveling the performance and heterogeneity of single catalyst particles: In-depth analysis of a single particle (Prof. Albert van den Berg)
Multiscale structuring for two-step catalysis and sensing: generating and manipulating sub-micrometer sized droplets at high volumes (Prof. Albert van den Berg)
Continuous sensing and flow with bubbles (Prof. Albert van den Berg)