At the Interpore 2017 meeting, we presented novel membraneless batteries based on two immiscible protic solvents (ethanol or methanol and saltwater). These batteries were also capable of producing hydrogen on demand, and hence allowed one to construct a system that both generated the power to compress hydrogen and simultaneously produce the hydrogen to be compressed.
Recently, several...
Ubiquitous uncertainty about pore geometry inevitably undermines the veracity of pore- and multi-scale simulations of transport phenomena in porous media. It raises two fundamental issues: sensitivity of effective material properties to pore-scale parameters and statistical parameterization of Darcy-scale models that accounts for pore-scale uncertainty. Homogenization-based maps of pore-scale...
One of the key factors in energy transition is energy storage. As most of the energy in the Netherlands is used for heating, the focus of renewable energy sources is on capturing and using heat in an effective way. We have developed a system for underground heat storage
that is based on ground freezing principles (also called ice storage). It is based on the fact that the phase change...
