dr.ing. A. Banerjee (Aayan)

Assistant Professor
TNW-CE-CPM
Horst Complex ME359
a.banerjee@utwente.nl
+31534893864
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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.

I am also the founder and co-coordinator of Hydrogen UT (HyUT), the hydrogen community of the University of Twente. For more information, please visit utwente.nl/hydrogen.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Multiscale
    • Performance
    • Reactor
    • Models
    • Efficiency
    • Heat Recovery

  • Physics

    • Model
    • Independent Variables

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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

2023
Modelling of the catalytic initiation of methane coupling under non-oxidative conditions, Article 140273. Postma, R. S., Mendes, P. S. F., Pirro, L., Banerjee, A., Thybaut, J. W. & Lefferts, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140273The onset of mass transport limitations triggers the stimulus responsiveness of polymer coated catalysts, Article 140809. da Silva, M. J. E., Sybren Postma, R., Lefferts, L., Banerjee, A. & Alexander Faria Albanese, J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140809
2022
Proton shuttling flattens the energy landscape of nitrite catalytic reduction, 252-263. Huang, P., Yan, Y., Banerjee, A., Lefferts, L., Wang, B. & Faria Albanese, J. A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2022.06.007Benchmarking solid oxide electrolysis cell-stacks for industrial Power-to-Methane systems via hierarchical multi-scale modelling, Article 119143. Wehrle, L., Schmider, D., Dailly, J., Banerjee, A. & Deutschmann, O.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119143Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of mixed ionic-electronic conductive electrodes and their interfaces: a Ni/CGO study, 11121-11130. Williams, N. J., Seymour, I. D., Leah, R. T., Banerjee, A., Mukerjee, S. & Skinner, S. J.https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA07351FIntegrated Multiscale Modeling of Solid Oxide Electrodes, Cells, Stacks, and Systems, 766-773. Banerjee, A.https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202100199Optimizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance to Re-evaluate Its Role in the Mobility Sector, 42-64. Wehrle, L., Wang, Y., Boldrin, P., Brandon, N. P., Deutschmann, O. & Banerjee, A.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00014
2021
Revisiting the promise of Bi-layer graded cathodes for improved Li-ion battery performance, 5193-5204. Chowdhury, R., Zhao, Y., Xia, Y., Ouyang, M., Brandon, N. & Banerjee, A.https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SE01077HSimulation of bi-layer cathode materials with experimentally validated parameters to improve ion diffusion and discharge capacity, 1103-1119. Chowdhury, R., Banerjee, A., Zhao, Y., Liu, X. & Brandon, N.https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se01611jAnalysis of a biogas-fed SOFC CHP system based on multi-scale hierarchical modeling, 78-87. Wang, Y., Wehrle, L., Banerjee, A., Shi, Y. & Deutschmann, O.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.091

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Courses academic year 2022/2023

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME359
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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