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Laboratory of Energy Science and EngineeringDevelopment of Innovative Processes for the Sustainable Production of Fuels, Chemicals and Electricity

Numerical Simulations Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)Cutting Edge MRI Technology

Probing Two-Phase Granular Systems

Granular Physics

Massive Parallel Cluster Computing

Direct Numerical Simulation of Gas-Solid Systems

Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Gas-

Solid Systems

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Dynamic particle simulations

CO2 Capture

Heterogeneous Catalysis

FID+TCD

Ion chamber

I0

Gas Outlet

Gas inlet

Monochromators

T = 50-700 ºCP = 1-20 bar

Capillary reactor

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XAS detector

XRD

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Cat

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CO2 + 3 H2 → CH3OH + H2O

CO2 + CH4 → 2 CO + 2 H2

CO2 hydrogenation to methanol :

Dry reforming of methane:

Methanol production rate Structure-performance relationship

Colloidal nanoparticles Porous supports Final catalyst

CO2Capture & Utilization

C

OONi/SiO2@Al2O3 (ALD) and Methane

Consumption Rate

CaO +CO2 ↔ CaCO3

MgO + CO2↔ MgCO3

Ca-looping

Mg-looping:

time on streamIn2O3

m-ZrO2

ZrO In

(Photo)electrochemical Energy Conversion

Water

O2

H2

Water

OH

HH

H

OHHOOH

H2

H2

CO2

Value-addedchemicals

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(Photo)electro-catalysts

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