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dr.ing. A. Banerjee (Aayan)

Assistant Professor

About Me

I have a passion for solving in-depth and challenging problems in (electro-)catalysis, reactor design and control. This passion stems from strong foundations that I developed during my Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota, PhD in Chemical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Postdoctoral research in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion at Imperial College London.
At UT, I am now leveraging those foundations to investigate and teach the fundamental physico-chemical phenomena across multiple scales that govern the performance and life of next-gen (electro-)chemical devices e.g. hydrogen fuel cells, electrolysers, batteries, that will help accelerate the energy transition.

For more information, please visit SEED lab.

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
# Cathodes
# Electrodes
# Electrolysis
# Gases
# Oxides
# Protons
# Regenerative Fuel Cells
# Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Sofc)

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Research

We aim to develop a multi-scale understanding to reliably design and control next generation (electro)chemical technologies with special focus on hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers and redox flow batteries. To do this, we use high-fidelity integrated model frameworks that start from nanomaterial surface models and go all the way up to process flowsheet models. We combine micro-kinetic reaction modelling, structural evolution modelling, continuum transport modelling and machine learning with tailor-made experiments to develop physics-based cognitive digital twins.

See this video from the 2022 EU Hydrogen Week in Brussels highlighting one of the main themes of our research.

Or this one from 4TU Energy.

For more information, please visit SEED lab.

 

Publications

Recent
Postma, R. S., Mendes, P. S. F., Pirro, L. , Banerjee, A., Thybaut, J. W. , & Lefferts, L. (2023). Modelling of the catalytic initiation of methane coupling under non-oxidative conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 454(Part 3), Article 140273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140273
Williams, N. J., Seymour, I. D., Leah, R. T. , Banerjee, A., Mukerjee, S., & Skinner, S. J. (2022). Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of mixed ionic-electronic conductive electrodes and their interfaces: a Ni/CGO study. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(20), 11121-11130. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA07351F
Wehrle, L., Wang, Y., Boldrin, P., Brandon, N. P., Deutschmann, O. , & Banerjee, A. (2022). Optimizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance to Re-evaluate Its Role in the Mobility Sector. ACS Environmental Au, 2(1), 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00014
Chowdhury, R., Zhao, Y., Xia, Y., Ouyang, M., Brandon, N. , & Banerjee, A. (2021). Revisiting the promise of Bi-layer graded cathodes for improved Li-ion battery performance. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 5(20), 5193-5204. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SE01077H
Wehrle, L., Schmider, D., Dailly, J. , Banerjee, A., & Deutschmann, O. (2021). Model-based optimization of solid oxide electrolysis cells and stacks for powerto- gas applications. In ECS Transactions (1 ed., Vol. 103, pp. 545-554). (ECS Transactions; Vol. 103, No. 1). Institute of Physics (IOP). https://doi.org/10.1149/10301.0545ecst

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Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Science and Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME359
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Science and Technology
Horst Complex  ME359
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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7522 NB Enschede
+31 (0)53 489 9111
info@utwente.nl
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