Research

We simulate catalysis, thermodynamics and processes for sustainable energy.

CO₂ Conversion

Reactive capture and conversion (RCC)

Capture and conversion of CO₂ in one process. This cuts energy use and capital cost compared with separate capture and conversion steps.

Electrochemical RCCThermochemical RCCHybrid RCC
Reactive capture and conversion

Direct air capture (DAC)

Removing CO₂ straight from air at about 420 ppm. The challenge is sorbent performance, energy and cost.

Direct air capture

Biomass Energy

Biomass to jet fuel

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from biomass, from reaction mechanisms to full process design.

PyrolysisCatalytic upgradingRefining
Biomass to jet fuel

Plastic Upcycling

Turning waste plastic into high-value chemicals and materials.

Plastic upcycling

Modeling depolymerization

Kinetic Monte Carlo and population balance models of catalytic hydrogenolysis. They link catalyst surface chemistry to selectivity, yield and conversion.

Kinetic Monte Carlo model

Beyond recycling

Plasma processesPolymer functionalizationSolvent-based processing
Plasma and chemical upcycling

Density Functional Theory

Material and molecular properties from quantum mechanics, with no empirical data.

Electronic structure and bondingReaction pathwaysActivation barriersTransition states
DFT simulation
DFT simulation

Machine Learning

Materials screening

Finding candidate materials faster, with fewer experiments.

Machine learning for materials screening

Digital transformation

Process automationOptimizationPredictive controlAnomaly detection
Digital transformation

Fault diagnosis

Multimodal modelsIncremental learningExplainable AI
Multimodal fault diagnosis
Incremental learning
Explainable AI

Process Systems

Process modeling and simulation

Process designSimulationScreeningOptimization
Process modeling

TEA and LCA

Is it worth building? Production cost, emissions and sensitivity analysis.

TEA and LCA

Projects

Computing

CPU cores
516Xeon Gold 5122
Nodes
122 GPU + 10 CPU
Memory
5.5 TBtotal
Gaussian 16 VASP 6.3 AMS (SCM) Aspen Plus V14 MATLAB COMSOL 6.1 GREET openLCA