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EPFL's Professor Haussener is winner of the 2024 Yellott Award

2024-05-10T11:11:09+01:00May 10th, 2024|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News|

Congratulations to FlowPhotoChem PI Professor Sophia Haussener of the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)- the 2024 winner of the Yellott Award. The Yellott Award is presented by the Solar Energy Division (SED) to an outstanding individual who has contributed significantly to the organization of the Solar Energy Division-sponsored symposia, has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has a reputation for performing high-quality research, has made significant contributions to solar engineering through education, state or federal service, or in the private sector. At the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) [...]

FPC research is on the EU's Innovation Radar

2024-02-08T14:36:26+00:00February 8th, 2024|Project News, public dissemination|

Six FlowPhotoChem partners at DLR, Membrasenz, HZB, EPFL, eChemicles and SoHHytec are listed on the EU Innovation Radar. The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative to identify high-potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation projects. The goal is to allow every citizen, public official, professional and business person to discover the outputs of EU innovation funding and give them a chance to seek out innovators who could follow in the footsteps of companies that received EU funding in their early days. The EU Innovation Radar platform is the first step to making information about EU-funded innovations from high-quality [...]

HZB-EPFL tandem campaign

2023-09-08T11:00:31+01:00July 7th, 2023|Project News|

The Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB) & the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) carried out a joint campaign at the High flux solar simulator (HFSS), Lausanne in the first week of June 2023. The experiments served as a demonstration for the integration of the PEC (Photoelectrochemical conversion) reactor of WP1 and the EC (Electrochemical conversion) reactor of WP3 to carry out tandem electrolysis of CO2 to CO and CO to hydrocarbons. The weeklong experimental campaign focused on relating the operational conditions of the individual reactors to the performance of the integrated PEC-EC device across various performance metrics. [...]

FlowPhotoChem meets at EPFL to share progress and plans

2023-09-08T11:04:00+01:00May 31st, 2023|Project News, University News|

The FlowPhotoChem team attended a project-wide plenary meeting in Lausanne on the 25th and 26th of May, 2023. Members of our Scientific and Exploitation Advisory Boards joined us to question and guide us further with our research. Special thanks to Dr Huyen Dinh, Dr Stafford Sheehan and Marc Lavine. We had a productive meeting as we enter an exciting phase of the project with our modular reactors starting to generate results and systems integration advancing. We were treated to an engaging tour of the labs and installations at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). Many thanks to Professor Sophia Haussener [...]

Lay summary of recent EPFL paper in Nature Energy

2023-05-02T11:04:14+01:00May 2nd, 2023|Project News, public dissemination, Publication|

Prof. Sophia Haussener and Dr Isaac Holmes-Gentle Thanks to Dr Issac Holmes Gentle and Prof. Sophia Haussener of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They have co-written an accessible lay summary of their recent Nature Energy open-access paper titled: Kilowatt-scale solar hydrogen production system using a concentrated integrated photoelectrochemical device. Read the summary of their work here.  It was carefully prepared for interested non-specialists.

EPFL team publish FlowPhotoChem research in Nature Energy

2023-09-08T11:21:09+01:00April 11th, 2023|Project News, Publication|

Congratulations to our team at EPFL for their recent (April 10th, 2023) paper which appeared in the journal Nature Energy. The paper titled: Kilowatt-scale solar hydrogen production system using a concentrated integrated photoelectrochemical device was authored by Isaac Holmes-Gentle, Saurabh Tembhurne, Clemens Suter, and Professor Sophia Haussener.   Citation: Holmes-Gentle, I., Tembhurne, S., Suter, C. et al. Kilowatt-scale solar hydrogen production system using a concentrated integrated photoelectrochemical device. Nat Energy (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01247-2 Read the open-access paper here.

Publication lay summary from EPFL: making Horizon 2020 research accessible to non-specialists

2023-09-08T13:13:17+01:00October 19th, 2022|Project News, public dissemination, Publication|

FlowPhotoChem has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862453. Horizon 2020 is funded with public money. As such, we are making the findings of our publications accessible to a wider audience by posting non-specialist summaries of our work. Prof. Sophia Haussener Dr Etienne Boutin The latest summary was carefully prepared by Dr Etienne Boutin and Professor Sophia Haussener, our partners at the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne who collaborated on this body of research with our partners [...]

Publication news: Joint FPC paper published in Advanced Energy Materials

2023-09-08T13:45:29+01:00June 23rd, 2022|Project News, Publication|

Congratulations to the team of FlowPhotoChem author-researchers - Etienne Boutin, Mahendra Patel, Egon Kecsenovity, Silvan Suter, Csaba Janáky, and Sophia Haussener from EPFL and the University of Szeged. Their study titled 'Photo-Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 Under Concentrated Sunlight Enables Combination of High Reaction Rate and Efficiency' was published in the open-access journal Advanced Energy Materials on June 15th, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202200585

FlowPhotoChem team members on the move: Knowledge exchange and training

2023-09-08T14:36:11+01:00December 13th, 2021|Project News|

From August 4th through the 6th, 2021, researchers Siddharth Gupta and Dr Gumaa El-Nagar from the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin travelled to the University of Szeged in Hungary to learn more about the work being done at the group of Profs. Csaba Janaky and Balázs Endrődi. Siddharth comments, "The primary aim of the trip was to understand the operating procedure used by the group in Hungary for the EC reactor developed by them in conjunction with ThalesNano. This was done with the view to overcome reproducibility challenges within the consortium and enable rapid catalyst [...]

Spotlight on PI Prof. Sophia Haussener, Head of the LRESE at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2023-09-08T15:02:52+01:00October 7th, 2021|PI Spotlight, Project News, University News|

Prof. Sophia Haussener This month, we place the spotlight on the work and accomplishments of Prof. Sophia Haussener who leads the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. The LRESE conducts world-leading research into coupled multi-physics and multi-scale reactor and device modelling; modelling-based guidelines for design and engineering of reactors; numerical simulations of chemical reactions; and the optimisation of reactors. Sophia's research focuses on providing design guidelines for thermal, thermochemical, and photoelectrochemical energy conversion reactors through multi-physics modelling and experimentation. Please describe your career path and research group. I obtained [...]

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