Energy and Process Systems Engineering Group, ETH Zurich

Welcome Jan & Marvin! 🥳 We are thrilled to kick off the year with Jan-Frederic Laub and Marvin Volkmer joining our team as doctoral students and wish them a warm welcome!

🚨We are #hiring a #PhDstudent!🚨 Join our EPSE team at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich and work on an Automated Thermodynamics Lab for sustainable molecular and process design. Apply now! 🔬 🤖 https://lnkd.in/dxWg_rA6

Möge der Müll mit uns sein! - Ein Denkanstoss zur Transformation von Chemie, Pharma und Life Sciences. Danke, scienceindustries, für die Carte Blanche ! Eine Industrie innerhalb der planetaren Grenzen ist nicht nur besser für die Umwelt, sondern auch für die Industrie selbst. Die Transformation dahin benötigt alle Optionen. Dabei stellt die Kreislaufwirtschaft den Königsweg. Gleichzeitig müssen wir den Einsatz von Chemie neu überdenken. https://lnkd.in/dNKV3aB6

Have you ever wondered what to do with Polyurethane rigid foam waste? 🤔 Are you confused by all the possible chemical recycling options? 🫣 Check out our new publication and read about how we help Mr.Polyurethane navigate the maze of chemical recycling: https://lnkd.in/etwnU8vV Highlights: - Chemical recycling of polyurethane rigid foam offers the potential to reduce environmental impacts across most impact categories when compared to conventional waste treatment options - Chemical recycling options can already be assessed early on - even when only minimal data is available - Minimal conversion rates and limits on energy demand guide future process development

Interest in hot 🔥 and cool ❄ research in electrochemistry ? Join us as a Postdoc at ETH Zürich The Energy and Process Systems Engineering Group, ETH Zurich explores electrochemical cooling and heating concepts to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of future devices. Please share and/or apply via the online application portal before 1 November 2024. https://lnkd.in/d62dtrEP

Yesterday, a joint team of Energy and Process Systems Engineering Group, ETH Zurich and RRE won the AV MAVT football tournament 🏆 Thanks AV-MAVT for organizing and Akademischer Sportverband Zürich (ASVZ) for hosting this fantastic event! Let's hope we can defend the trophy next year!

Last week, I defended my thesis on the 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁-𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 at ETH Zürich. I thank the examination committee, Prof. Andrea Ramírez Ramírez and Prof. Marco Mazzotti, and in particular, André Bardow for his guidance and for creating an extremely supportive learning environment at the Energy and Process Systems Engineering Group, ETH Zurich. Special thanks to my colleagues, friends, and family for their support. It was very fun🎉! Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich,

Wondering what caused those big smiles? 😊 David Shu and Philipp Rehner recently presented their posters at the FOCAPD in Breckenridge. Find out more about their research in the conference contributions: Towards designing sector-coupled energy systems within planetary boundaries: https://lnkd.in/ewUr5aKM Computer-Aided Mixture Design Using Molecule Superstructures: https://lnkd.in/e8dsktJn Full conference proceedings: https://lnkd.in/ewZqQZfh

📣 Publication alert: Are you trying to screen quickly and accurately porous materials for separation processes? Then classical Density Functional Theory (cDFT) is made for you! 🙌 I am excited to share the work I have been doing during my postdoc at ETH Zürich on developing faster methods for the screening of porous materials for separation processes! In our paper, we show that cDFT is: - 🎯 Accurate: cDFT can reproduce adsorption properties computed by state-of-the-art simulation methods forfor CH4, N2, and CO2 adsorbed in hundreds of solid structuresadsorbed in >500 solids structures. - ⚡ Fast: cDFT does so on average 100 times faster than the state-of-the-art simulation methods. - 🔎 Precise: cDFT predictions of these adsorption properties have negligible numerical uncertainty. We demonstrate these features of cDFT by comparing its predictions with Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations for more than 500 Metal-Organic Frameworks. We implement several key developments to cDFT such as the inclusion of Coulombic interactions which are crucial to get accurate calculations with CO2, and the calculations of enthalpies of adsorption with cDFT, an important property for separation process modeling. Curious to learn more? Check out our preprint: https://lnkd.in/drutDRrK Big thank you to Philipp Rehner, Johannes Schilling, Elias Moubarak, Joachim Gross and André Bardow Bardow without whom, all this work would not have been possible! It has been a pleasure to work with you and I'm looking forward to the next steps in this research!

We are more than halfway through our CIRCULAR FOAM project! Check out the latest press release to learn about the latest developments: