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Understanding wettability in subsurface gas–water–rock systems is essential for applications such as geological hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, and reactive transport in porous media. In this study, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the wettabil ...

A Quantum Mechanical Study of Lithium Titanium Oxide for Lithium Recovery

Sustainable and High-Selectivity Extraction in Complex Brines

The accelerating demand for lithium in energy storage technologies is straining conventional mining and evaporation methods, driving interest in selective recovery from low-grade and chemically complex brines. This thesis evaluates spinel lithium titanium oxide (Li4
This report benchmarks the performance of several machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in simulating thermodynamic and transport properties of water. Classical force fields are efficient but often fail to capture complex interactions such as many-body effects and nucle ...
The transition toward renewable energy systems requires flexible energy conversion technologies capable of responding to intermittent power availability. A modular alkaline water electrolysis system offers a promising pathway for such flexibility, as it can dynamically adapt its ...
Magnetic refrigeration is a highly investigated topic with great potential in cooling and heating applications. Its promising efficiency and environmentally friendly operation make it an attractive and resilient solution. The modeling of such thermodynamic systems is a central re ...

Molecular Simulations for Hydrogen Storage and Production

From quantum to force field-based methods

In this thesis, molecular simulations are performed to design and assess novel 2D materials for H2 storage applications (chapters 2-3) and to predict thermodynamic and transport properties of H2 in aqueous electrolyte solutions for storage and production of H2 (chapters 4-8). Bot ...
De-carbonizing aviation is necessary for a sustainable future, and using hydrogen in a fuel cell, that produces water, can greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving higher gravimetric energy density with hydrogen compared to conventional jet fuels, involves storing it in ...
Steel manufacturing is a carbon intensive process, that is responsible for approximately 7% of the total global CO2 emissions. Therefore, TATA Steel IJmuiden aims to lower its carbon emissions. One way to bring down emissions, is to replace the existing blast furnace (BF) CO redu ...
Hydrogen is seen as a clean energy carrier that will aid in phasing out fossil fuels, and liquid hydrogen will likely play a role in the global hydrogen economy. However, Life Cycle Assessment researchers and process engineers widely report having insufficient means to accurately ...
As the global energy transition accelerates, transitioning away from fossil fuels has become critical to assist the mitigation of climate change. Hydrogen, with its dual role as both an energy carrier and fuel, holds great potential for this transition. However, its large-scale p ...
Molecular simulations predict the thermodynamic and transport properties by computing the interactions between the molecules in a system. These simulations offer practical alternatives to address challenges arising from experimental limitations in measuring Vapor-Liquid Equilibr ...
The utilization of water electrolysis for hydrogen production is expected to increase significantly in the upcoming decades. Modular system design offers great advantages for emerging markets, whilst providing the necessary flexibility in capacity that intermittent renewable ener ...
The long-distance maritime transport sector plays one of the most relevant roles in the transport sector. Therefore, this project designs a modular solid hydrogen solution, studying the assumptions made in the literature and including new simplifications that reduce the computa ...

Quantum to Transport

Modeling Transport Properties of Aqueous Potassium Hydroxide by Machine Learning Molecular Force Fields from Quantum Mechanics

In this work, the added value of machine learning (ML) molecular force fields (FF) for the community of molecular simulations is showcased by successfully calculating transport properties of aqueous potassium hydroxide (KOH (aq)). Classical FFs use relatively simple interatomic p ...
In this thesis, the first part will be a review of the literature that includes as much of the commercially available information on carbon capture and mainly, Direct Air Capture (DAC). What are the difficulties surrounding capturing CO2 from gas mixtures and what are the possibl ...
Acid-gas capture systems are used to remove acid-gasses from waste gas streams from combustion or other chemical processes. A commonly used solvent is an aqueous solution with the primary amine monoethanolamine (MEA). Removing the acid gasses typically involves heating the solven ...

Molecular dynamics simulations of Krytox oil - CO2 gas mixture

Computation of transport and thermodynamic properties

The power plant, steel and petrochemical industries are large sources of carbon emissions worldwide. For meeting the climate goals of 2030 and 2050, efforts are underway towards pioneering novel technologies. Gas separation by supported liquid membranes is an attractive option fo ...
The current industrial application of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) is limited due to technological drawbacks such as high energy demand and environmental pollution. Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are considered promising alternative solvent ...

Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are significant sources of air pollution. Nitrogen oxides like Nitric oxide (NO) and Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are mainly responsible for the acid rain and smog. Nitrous oxide (N2O), also known as the laughing gas, is the major greenhouse g ...