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FlowPhotoChem at SUNER-C stakeholders meeting in Ghent

2024-07-02T15:52:07+01:00July 2nd, 2024|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News, public dissemination|

The SUNER-C workshop "Towards an Innovation Ecosystem for Solar Fuels and Chemicals in Europe," held on July 2nd and 3rd, 2024 in Ghent, Belgium began with an opening lecture by Max Fleischer, one of FlowPhotoChem's scientific advisors. FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Dr Pau Farràs is on the roster for Day One to present our project. The objectives of the SUNER-C workshop were to: Identify & discuss industry priorities, needs & potential contributions to value chains of solar fuels and chemicals in Europe; Key desired outcome: propose business models for the SUNER-C target area of solar fuels and chemicals, stemming from techno-economic considerations; Develop/consolidate the community and innovation [...]

Dr Wenming Tong, U of Galway and Prof. Haussener, EPFL present at SunCoChem Summer School

2024-07-10T11:45:58+01:00June 24th, 2024|presentation, Project News, public dissemination|

Dr Wenming Tong Prof. Sophia Haussener At the 4th Co2oling The Earth Summer School organised by the EU-funded research project SunCoChem under the title “Innovative hybrid technologies for CO2 conversion into added-value commercial products", University of Galway's Dr Wenming Tong will present results in a session titled "FlowPhotoChem: demonstration of a modular integrated system of reactors for solar ethylene production." In addition, Sophia Haussener, Associate Professor, EPFL will deliver a talk titled "Modelling approaches for electrochemical CO2 conversion." The online Summer School aims to present several sustainable chemistry approaches and innovations and discover techniques and methods to scale-up chemical solutions and [...]

Uganda Society of Professional Chemists receive a progress update of FlowPhotoChem

2023-10-04T10:38:51+01:00September 29th, 2023|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News|

Kyambogo University PI Justus Masa will present FlowPhotoChem at the upcoming Chem Discussion 2023 online meeting hosted by the Uganda Society of Professional Chemists. Dr Justus Masa’s core research focuses on electrocatalysis and energy conversion, especially the rational design of advanced low-cost catalysts and electrode materials for electrochemical energy systems. This insightful webinar titled "Synthesis and Characterisation of iron-nitrogen co-doped catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells" will occur on October 14th, 8:00 PM EAT (6 PM in Dublin). Here, Mr. Olado Simon Peter and Dr Justus Masa will discuss iron-nitrogen co-doped catalysts for fuel cells. Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/bfz-mfch-owz Or dial: (UG) [...]

Hanka Besic's FPC poster wins an award at the Solar2Chem 2023 conference

2023-09-29T10:41:17+01:00September 29th, 2023|presentation, Project News|

Congratulations to Hanka Besic, PhD candidate at the University of Galway! Hanka's poster titled "Performance and stability of cobalt oxides in an anion exchange membrane electrolyser" took a prize at the Solar2Chem conference themed Photo(electro)catalysis for solar fuel production this year. The four-day meeting ran on the 18th -22nd of September 2023 and was hosted by FlowPhotoChem partners at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) ICIQ in Tarragona, Spain.  Learn about Hanka's research in her own words: https://vimeo.com/756329593

Siddharth Gupta of HZB presents his research to the International Society of Electrochemistry in Lyon

2023-09-08T10:55:21+01:00August 30th, 2023|presentation, Project News|

Siddharth Gupta, early-stage researcher at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin will present his FlowPhotoChem research at the 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Lyon, France. Sid's talk is titled 'Electrochemical CO reduction in zero gap electrolysers necessitates careful water management' and will take place during Symposia 6b in the Salon Tete d'Or, from 14:15-14:30 on the 4th of September, 2023. Sid is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Dr Matthew Mayer in the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” which targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 to high-value products. Learn more about Siddharth's work [...]

Dr Pau Farras gives keynote at October 2022 Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Symposium in Galway

2023-09-08T13:05:27+01:00November 24th, 2022|presentation, Project News|

FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Dr Pau Farras of the University of Galway gave the keynote lecture titled “Electro, Photo and Biocatalysis: Efficient Ways for H2O Oxidation and CO2 Conversion” at the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Symposium in Galway on the 13th October 2022. The talk featured a summary of FlowPhotoChem technologies. This meeting explores a family of technologies that aim to decarbonise carbon-intensive processes by chemically capturing the CO2 and locking it into geological structures or products for a long time.

FlowPhotoChem research presented at HIMS Symposium, Amsterdam

2023-09-08T13:55:16+01:00June 16th, 2022|presentation, Project News, University News|

Early-stage researchers Stefan Zondag and Tom Masson based at the University of Amsterdam presented posters depicting their FlowPhotoChem research at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS Symposium in Amsterdam on June 15th 2022. Stefan's poster was titled “Continuous-flow Scale-up of Heterogeneous Photochemistry” and Tom’s was “Novel Reactors enabling Efficient Solar-powered Photochemistry.” Contributors listed on the posters included Stefan Zondag, Tom Masson, Timothy Noël, Dario Cambié, Koen Kuijpers, Arnab Chaudhuri and Jasper Schuurmans. The one-day meeting was held at the Science Park Conference Center. Here, all HIMS PhD students and postdocs will present a poster under the theme Chemistry [...]

FlowPhotoChem presented by Jelena Stojadinovic, MEMBRASENZ at Research Academy in Ruhr

2023-09-08T14:56:53+01:00November 15th, 2021|presentation, Project News|

Jelena Stojadinovic On November 15th, 2021, Jelena Stojadinovic, CEO and Founder of MEMBRASENZ presented FlowPhotoChem as part of an oral presentation without the slides at the Research Academy in Ruhr, Germany, Wirtschaftskolleg 2021 für Ingenieurswissenschaften,  Außeruniversitäre Karriere nach der Promotion. The audience consisted of approximately fifty Bachelor, MSc and PhD students at the University of Essen-Duisburg and Bochum. Read more about MEMBRASENZ from our industry case study with Jelena here.

Coordinator Pau Farràs, NUIG presents at SunCoChem April 28th webinar

2023-09-12T12:11:10+01:00May 10th, 2021|Project News, University News|

FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Dr Pau Farràs, NUI Galway facilitated a presentation and discussion entitled "FlowPhotoChem: heterogenous photo(electro)catalysis in flow using concentrated light" at the online  SunCoChem-hosted webinar conference about photo(electro)catalysis for sustainable energy conversion and storage into chemical bonds on April 28, 2021. Ninety-nine attendees were present. The objective of the two-hour webinar was to provide a better understanding of photo-electrochemical transformations driven by stable and efficient catalytic structures and how to combine photoelectrochemical measurements for their application in artificial photosynthesis. The target audiences were undergraduate, graduate or PhD students willing to learn about photo(electro)catalytic synthesis, researchers in chemical technologies from Universities [...]

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