Over E-refinery: Naar duurzame productie van chemicaliën en brandstoffen

Avondlezing door prof. dr. Ruud van Ommen georganiseerd door de Rotterdamsche Chemische Kring

E-refinery: Naar duurzame productie van chemicaliën en brandstoffen

Samenvatting
De energietransitie heeft verstrekkende gevolgen voor de procesindustrie. In het e-Refinery-instituut van TU Delft werkt een groot aantal onderzoekers van diverse expertises – in samenwerkingen met de industrie en andere onderzoeksinstituten – aan de benodigde technologieën en expertise. Het onderzoek richt zich op de elektrochemische omzetting van duurzame elektriciteit, water en lucht in brandstoffen en chemische bouwstenen. Dit gebeurt zowel op moleculaire schaal, op de schaal van apparaten als in de vorm van grootschalige systeemintegratie. De implementatie van e-Refinery komt tegemoet aan drie belangrijke uitdagingen waarmee de samenleving wordt geconfronteerd: een gedefossiliseerde chemische industrie, CO₂-neutrale brandstoffen en seizoensgebonden energieopslag.

Curriculum Vitae (short):

Education:
1997‐2001 PhD degree, Delft University of Technology, DelftChemTech. Thesis: Monitoring Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics; Date of PhD degree: 2 October 2001. Thesis advisors: prof. C.M. van den Bleek, prof. J.C. Schouten, and prof. M.‐O. Coppens.
1991‐1996 MSc degree, Delft University of Technology, (Bio)chemical engineering. Date of MSc degree: 10 December 1996.

Employment and Research Experience
Feb. 2016 – now: Full professor of Product & Process Engineering at DUT.
Jan. 2010 – Feb. 2016: Associate professor of Product & Process Engineering at DUT.
June 2009 – Aug. 2009: Visiting professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
July 2005 – Dec. 2009: Assistant professor of Product & Process Engineering at DUT.
March 2004 – Feb. 2005: Visiting professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
March 2001 – July 2005: Assistant professor of Reactor & Catalysis Engineering at DUT.
March 1997 – March 2001: PhD student in the Chemical Reactor Engineering group at DUT.

Selected research projects
2016‐2020 AstraZeneca sponsored project (>500 k€): Nanoengineering of pharmaceutical powders.
2015‐2019 Delft Global Research Fellowship (240k€): Nanostructuring photocatalysts for clean water in developing countries.
2015‐2016 ERC Proof of Concept grant (150k€): Rationally designed nanostructured catalysts for bioconversion Systems.
2012‐2013 ERC Proof of Concept grant (150k€): Core/Shell nanoparticle electrocatalysts for fuel cell applications.
2011‐2016 ERC starting grant (1410 k€): The interplay between agglomeration and coating of nanoparticles in the gasphase.
2011-2016 NanoNextNL proejct(300k€): Simulating coating and agglomeration of nanoparticles.

Collaboration with industry
I have been cooperating with a range of industrial partners, including Shell, Unilever, BASF, AstraZeneca, FrieslandCampina, DSM, Merck, Sabic, Rhodia, Essent, Nuon, Nouryon, and Tendris. I have co‐founded the spin‐out company Delft Intensified Materials Production (Delft IMP), operational from January 2015.

Honours and Awards
Dec. 2016 Selected as member of the Advance Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium.
Aug. 2013 Selected for special issue Journal of Materials Chemistry: Rising Stars, Young Nanoarchitects in Materials Science.
Dec. 2011 Runner‐up Delft Innovation Award 2011.
Nov. 2008 Particle Technology Forum (AIChE) award for best paper in Fluidization.
May 2002 DSM Award for Chemistry and Technology for PhD work.
May 2001 Best paper award at the 16th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion.
Oct. 1997 Unilever Research Prize for MSc thesis. 

Managerial roles

• Director of the TU Delft e‐Refinery Institute (Jan. 2022 – now).
• Director of the TU Delft Process Technology Institute (Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2021).
• Group leader of Product & Process Engineering (Jan. 2007 – July 2008 and March 2014 – now).
• Member of the management team of the TU Delft Process Technology Institute (Oct. 2014 – now).
• Chair of the Board of Studies of the MSc studies Sustainable Energy Technology (Sept. 2013 – Sept. 2019).
• Coordinator of the PR activities of the TU Delft Process Technology Institute (Dec. 2011 – June 2016).
• Member the Board of Studies of the MSc studies Sustainable Energy Technology (Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2013).
• Board member of the NPT (Dutch association of process engineers) (Sept. 2003 till May 2008).

Patents

• van Ommen, J.R., Controlled release from particles encapsulated by molecular layer deposition, Dutch patent application NL2014348, 2015.
• van Ommen, J.R., Apparatus and process for atomic or molecular layer deposition onto particles during pneumatic transport, PCT patent application PCT/EP2010/052769, 2010; Dutch patent NL2002590, 2010.
• van Ommen, J.R., Ellis, N., Yurteri, C., Marijnissen, J., Process and apparatus for producing coated particles, PCT patent application PCT/EP2010/ 110664, 2010.
• Kelder, E.M., van Ommen, J.R., Nijenhuis, J., Method for covering particles, especially a battery electrode material particles, and particles obtained with such method and a battery comprising such particle, US patent 20090155590, 2009.

Book
van Ommen, J.R., de Jong, W. (Eds.), ‘Biomass as a Sustainable Energy Source for the Future: Fundamentals of Conversion Processes’, Wiley, Hoboken, 2014.

Invited talks (selection)

• Invited lecture at BioCity University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University (Finland), May 2022.
• Keynote lecture at November Networking on ALD at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) Nov. 2021.
• Invited online lecture at the Bent Group at Stanford University (USA) Dec. 2020.
• Keynote lecture at November Networking on ALD at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) Nov. 2019.
• Keynote lecture at SCI/IChemE workshop on Reactors, Scale‐Up and Separations (London, UK) Sept. 2019.
• Keynote lecture at E‐MRS 2018 (Warsaw, Poland) September 2018.
• Invited Department Seminar at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) May 2017.
• Keynote lecture at the AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition (Nashville, USA) November 2016.
• Keynote lecture at CHEMREACTOR‐22 (London, UK) September 2016.
• Plenary lecture at the 20th Biennial European Conference on Chemical Vapour Deposition (Sempach, Switzerland) July 2015.
• Department Seminar at the University of Sydney (Australia) April 2015.
• Plenary lecture at the 18th Microencapsulation Industrial Convention (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) April 2015.
• Invited lecture for the IChemE Particle Technology Special Interest Group (London, UK) January 2015.
• Department Seminar at North Carolina State University (USA) November 2014.
• Invited lecture at the International Workshop on Fluid‐Particle Systems, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) June 2014.
• Invited lecture at the 36th IFPRI Annual General Meeting (Edinburgh, UK) June 2014.
• Keynote lecture at the 14th Int. Conference of Atomic Layer Deposition (Kyoto, Japan) June 2014.
• Keynote lecture at Int. Symp. on Chem. Reaction Engineering ISCRE 22 (Maastricht, the Netherlands) September 2012.
• Invited lecture at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Espoo, Finland) August 2012.
• Plenary lecture at Industrial Fluidization South Africa 2011 (South Africa) November 2011.
• Plenary lecture at the International Fluidization Conference (South‐Korea) May 2010.

Selected publications in international, refereed journals

• La Zara, D., Zhang, F., Sun, F., Bailey, M. R., Quayle, M. J., Petersson, G., Folestad, S., van Ommen, J. R., ‘Drug powders with tunable wettability by atomic and molecular layer deposition: From highly hydrophilic to superhydrophobic’, Applied Materials Today, 22: 100945 (2021).
• Grillo, F., Soethoudt, J., Marques, E. A., De Martín, L., Van Dongen, K., van Ommen, J. R., & Delabie, A. ‘Area‐selective deposition of Ruthenium by area‐dependent surface diffusion’, Chemistry of Materials, 32(22): p. 9560‐9572 (2020).
• van Ommen, J. R., Goulas, A.,’ Atomic layer deposition on particulate materials’, Materials Today Chemistry, 14: 100183 (2019).
• Zhang, D., La Zara, D., Quayle, M. J., Petersson, G., van Ommen, J. R., Folestad, S., ‘Nanoengineering of Crystal and Amorphous Surfaces of Pharmaceutical Particles for Biomedical Applications’, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2(4): p. 1518‐1530 (2019).
• Grillo, F., La Zara, D., Mulder, P., Kreutzer, M. T., van Ommen, J. R., ‘Oriented Attachment and Nanorod Formation in Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO2 on Graphene Nanoplatelets’, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122(34): p. 19981‐19991 (2018).
• Van Bui, H., Grillo, F., van Ommen, J. R., ‘Atomic and molecular layer deposition: off the beaten track’, Chemical Communications 53(1): p. 45‐71 (2017).
• Helmi, A., Wagner, E. C., Gallucci, F., van Sint Annaland, M., van Ommen, J. R.,Mudde, R. F., ‘On the hydrodynamics of membrane assisted fluidized bed reactors using X‐ray analysis’, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 122: p. 508‐522 (2017).
• Valdesueiro, D., Prabhu, M. K., Guerra‐Nunez, C., Sandeep, C. S., Kinge, S., Siebbeles, L. D., de Smet, L.C.P.M., Meesters, G.M.H., Kreutzer, M.T., Houtepen, A.J., van Ommen, J. R., ‘Deposition mechanism of aluminum oxide on quantum dot films at atmospheric pressure and room temperature’, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120: p. 4266‐4275 (2016).
• Vasudevan, S.A., Xu, Y., Karwal, S., van Ostaay, H.G.M.E., Meesters, G.M.H., Talebi, M., Sudhölter, E.J.R., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Controlled release from protein particles encapsulated by molecular layer deposition', Chemical Communications 51: p. 12540‐12543 (2015).
• van Ommen, J.R., Kooijman, D., Niet, M.D., Talebi, M., and Goulas, A., 'Continuous production of nanostructured particles using spatial atomic layer deposition', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfacescand Films 33(2): 021513 (2015).
• Motegh, M., van Ommen, J.R., Appel, P.W., and Kreutzer, M.T., 'Scale‐up study of a multiphase photocatalytic reactor ‐ degradation of cyanide in water over TiO2', Environmental Science and Technology 48(3): p. 1574‐1581 (2014).
• Maurer, S., Schildhauer, T.J., van Ommen, J.R., Biollaz, S.M.A., and Wokaun, A., 'Scale‐up of fluidized beds with vertical internals: Studying the sectoral approach by means of optical probes', Chemical Engineering Journal 252: p. 131‐140 (2014).
• de Martín, L., Bouwman, W.G., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Multidimensional nature of fluidized nanoparticle agglomerates', Langmuir 30(42): p. 12696‐12702 (2014).
• Hooshyar, N., van Ommen, J.R., Hamersma, P.J., Sundaresan, S., and Mudde, R.F., 'Dynamics of single rising bubbles in neutrally buoyant liquid‐solid suspensions', Physical Review Letters 110(24): 244501 (2013).
• Goulas, A. and van Ommen, J.R., 'Atomic layer deposition of platinum clusters on titania nanoparticles at atmospheric pressure', Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1(15): p. 4647‐4650 (2013).
• Vervloet, D., Kapteijn, F., Nijenhuis, J., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Fischer‐tropsch reaction‐diffusion in a cobalt catalyst particle: Aspects of activity and selectivity for a variable chain growth probability', Catalysis Science & Technology 2(6): p. 1221‐1233 (2012).
• van Ommen, J.R., Valverde, J.M., and Pfeffer, R., 'Fluidization of nanopowders: A review', Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14(3): p. 1‐29 (2012).
• Tavares Cardoso, M.A., Talebi, M., Soares, P.A.M.H., Yurteri, C.U., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Functionalization of lactose as a biological carrier for bovine serum albumin by electrospraying', International Journal of Pharmaceutics 414(1‐2): p. 1‐5 (2011).
• Beetstra, R., Lafont, U., Nijenhuis, J., Kelder, E.M., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Atmospheric pressure process for coating particles using atomic layer deposition', Chemical Vapor Deposition 15(7‐9): p. 227‐233 (2009).
• Bartels, M., Lin, W., Nijenhuis, J., Kapteijn, F., and van Ommen, J.R., 'Agglomeration in fluidized beds at high temperatures: Mechanisms, detection and prevention', Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 34(5): p. 633‐666 (2008).

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