Welcome to the homepage of the Sustainable Electrochemical Engineering and Digitalisation (SEED) Lab! We are a research lab co-hosted by the research groups Catalytic Processes & Materials and Inorganic Membranes within the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Twente.
OUR GOAL
We design, control and scale up next generation electrochemical technologies from innovative lab-scale devices to novel industrial processes by combining operando characterisation and performance testing with integrated multi-scale multi-physics digital twins. Our focus areas are energy storage and conversion technologies with emphasis on low and high temperature hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers and beyond Li-ion batteries.
See Aayan talk about our work at the 2022 EU Hydrogen Week in Brussels and for 4TU Energy below!
OUR APPROACH
- Our activities cover the full device development cycle from model-guided design to fabrication and testing and finally to prognostics and control during operation.
- We combine a myriad of modelling methods including micro-kinetic reaction modelling, microstructural evolution modelling, continuum transport modelling, system flowsheet modelling and machine learning to develop increasingly higher fidelity digital twins for design and control.
- We perform dedicated experiments, using a wide array of operando functional and structural characterization techniques, for model parametrization, validation and real-time feedback for digital twinning.
