Research

Research in the Laboratory of Energy Science and Engineering is aimed at applying a fundamental understanding gained from laboratory-scale experiments, together with appropriate mathematical modelling to address the important challenge to produce fuels, electricity and chemicals in efficient and sustainable ways.

Within this topic, our group focuses in particular on CO2 capture and conversion, the dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons, the conversion of biomass and fossil fuels into high-purity hydrogen and the fundamentals of single- and two-phase particulate systems. Important contributions in these research areas require attention to the synthesis and detailed characterization of materials, along with the development of advanced reaction engineering and numerical modelling approaches.

Therefore a multi-disciplinary research group with academic backgrounds ranging from physics to chemical and mechanical engineering and chemistry has been recruited and trained.

Our research program has been funded primarily by ETH Zurich, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Office of Energy and Alstom.