Research
Process systems engineering studies can aid in the area of sustainability in chemical engineering:
- Evaluation of environmental (“green”) aspects of new strategies (LCA, life-cycle assessment)
- Identification of cost drivers and technological bottlenecks (TEA, techno-economic assessment)
and can be thus coupled with experimental catalysis studies.
Research Goal: Development of computer-aided tools and models to synthesize and evaluate new systems/products
Research Topic 1
Sustainable process design of CO2/biomass-to-fuels/Chemicals
Systems-level analysis (technoeconomic assessment (TEA), lifecycle assessment (LCA)) of renewable energy (H2)
Research Topic 3
Feasibility study for carbon-neutral production of Offgas-to-H2(OtH) and Offgas-to-Chemicals(OtC)
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and analysis
Research Topic 5
Research Topic 6
Supercapacitor/Battery Modelling & Simulation
to balance safety, performance, size, cost and reliability
with the coupling of electrode, cell, module, pack and system
Recycling Process Design and Environmental & Economic Feasibility Analysis
to economic feasibility study
