Publication date: 28th August 2024
To become more CO2 neutral, Europe’s energy supply system and its chemical industry are getting more and more electrified. H2 and products from CO2 are envisioned as a suitable long-term energy storage option. They can be produced with high efficiencies by electrolysis. Yet, electrolysis processes account for only a small fraction of all chemical production processes. Over the next few decades, we expect to see a systematic and large-scale ramp-up of electrolysis for the production of various e-Fuels and chemicals.
A requirement for the establishing competitive electrolysis processes is a thorough, quantitative understanding and optimization of catalyst and electrode processes. This includes the identification of experimentally validated electrolysis models and, in particular, the model-based analysis and optimization of the electrodes. To date, there are few continuum-level models that include adequate reaction kinetics to describe electrochemical performance and product selectivity.
This presentation will show how suitable kinetic models and model parameters can be determined for a wide range of electrosynthesis processes: PEM water electrolysis [1-3], CO2 reduction in aqueous [4], and organic electrolyte [5]. In some of these applications, electrochemical reaction kinetics play a major role, whereas others suffer from slow sorption processes carbonation reactions in the electrolyte, gas/liquid phase equilibria or slow transport processes.
Dynamic measurements, such as cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry/potentiometry, are well reproduced by the models, and the underlying processes that cause a characteristic dynamic response are revealed. Crucially, the models are then used to identify the performance-limiting processes among the various reaction and transport processes, and measures are proposed to improve the performance of the electrodes. The kinetic models are essential tools and building blocks for the model-based design and optimization and condition diagnosis of electrolysis cells.
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.