Electrical energy Applications (ELECTA)

General expertise of the research group

The research group carries out applied research related to electrical energy. This comprises: Power electronic applications, storage of electricity, integration of PV, protection of distribution grids under the impact of power electronics and electrical bikes.

Specific hydrogen- related expertise & research topics

• Practical evaluation as hydrogen as a storage for electrical distribution grids

Available equipment/tools

• Power analysers (Yokogawa)
• Power-Quality meters (Fluke)
• Test bench for electrical bikes
• Programmable multi-phase AC current and voltage source (Omicron)
• Programmable DC source and load

Participating in FL/B/EU funded projects with H2 related research

• H2 for all, TETRA

Main relevant publications

On the last two years

1. Beckwée, E.J. et al. (2024). Structure I methane hydrate confined in C8-grafted SBA-15: A highly efficient storage system enabling ultrafast methane loading and unloading. Applied Energy, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122120
2. Beckwée, E.J. et al. (2023). Enabling hydrate-based methane storage under mild operating conditions by periodic mesoporous organosilica nanotubes. Heliyon, doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023. e17662
3. Thijs, B. et al. (2022). Demonstration of a three compartment solar electrolyser with gas phase cathode producing formic acid from CO2 and water using Earth abundant metals. Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, doi: 10.3389/fceng.2022.1028811
4. Thijs, B. et al. (2022). Matching emerging formic acid synthesis processes with application requirements. Green Chemistry, 24(6), pp. 2287–2295.
5. Gupta, A. et al. (2021). Hydrogen Clathrates: Next Generation Hydrogen Storage Materials. Energy Storage Materials. Elsevier B.V., pp. 69–107
6. Thijs et al. (2021). Selective electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formic acid in a gas phase reactor with by-product recirculation. Sustainable Energy Fuels, doi: 10.1039/d1se00218j
7. Hollevoet et al. (2020). Energy-Efficient Ammonia Production from Air and Water Using Electrocatalysts with Limited Faradaic Efficiency. ACS Energy Letters, 5(4), 1124–1127.
8. Rongé et al. (2019). Bifunctional earth-abundant phosphate/phosphide catalysts prepared via
   atomic layer deposition for electrocatalytic water splitting. Nanoscale Advances, 1(10), 4166–4172.