prof.dr.ir. D.W.F. Brilman (Wim)

Derk Willem Frederik Brilman (Wim) was born on February 19^th 1968 in Meppel, the Netherlands. After growing up in Paterswolde and finishing secondary school in Groningen in 1986 (Atheneum, Zernike College), he started his Chemical Engineering study at the University of Twente (the Netherlands).

After an internship with Bayer AG (Germany) he graduated cum laude in 1991 on ‘The sulphidation of limestone: experimental study of the mechanism and development of a mathematical model’. Subsequently he completed in 1993 successfully the 2-yr. post-graduate designers-course on process design and –technology (‘Ontwerpers-opleiding Procestechnologie’) by the Universities of Groningen and Twente. In 1993 he received the ‘Hoogewerff Ontwerpersprijs’ for the final year-assignment (with Shell).

From October 1993 – 2002 he was lecturer at the University of Twente within, initially, the Chemical Engineering Sciences research group (Prof.dr.ir. W.P.M. van Swaaij) and later the research group ‘Development and Design of Industrial Processes’ with Prof.dr.ir. G.F. Versteeg.

In 1994 he started his PhD-research project, which was completed with the dissertation on ‘Mass Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Gas-Liquid-Liquid systems’ for which he obtained the PhD degree in December 1998. His promotors were Prof.dr.ir. W.P.M. van Swaaij and Prof.dr.ir. G.F. Versteeg. In the subsequent years 1998-2002 he supervised two PhD students and, from 1993-2002, in total about 30 MSc. Students during their MSc. project.

From 2002-2007 he was senior researcher at Sasol Technology in the field of Gas-To-Liquids process development and Fischer-Tropsch reaction technology (especially slurry reactor technology).

From October 2007 onwards he is appointed Associate Professor in the TCCB research group at the University of Twente. The main focus of the research is currently the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals, CO2 capture and multiphase reaction technology.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Adsorption
# Algae
# Amines
# Lipids
# Liquefaction
# Sorbents
# Water

Chemistry

# Sorbent

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Sustainable Process Technology (SPT)

Simões, C. (2023). Advances in reverse electrodialysis for renewable energy generation. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555197

Simões, C., Saakes, M. , & Brilman, D. (2023). Toward Redox-Free Reverse Electrodialysis with Carbon-Based Slurry Electrodes. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 62(3), 1665-1675. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.2c03567

Mendel, N., Siretanu, D. , Sîretanu, I. , Brilman, D. W. F. , & Mugele, F. (2022). Adsorption of CO2 on anhydrous cation-exchanged montmorillonite. Poster session presented at The 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Simões, C., Vital, B., Sleutels, T., Saakes, M. , & Brilman, W. (2022). Scaled-up multistage reverse electrodialysis pilot study with natural waters. Chemical Engineering Journal, 450(Part 4), [138412]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.138412

van Schagen, T. N., van der Wal, P. J. , & Brilman, D. W. F. (2022). Development of a novel, through-flow microwave-based regenerator for sorbent-based direct air capture. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 9, [100187]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100187

Sîretanu, I. , Mendel, N. , Mugele, F., Siretanu, D. , Brilman, D. W. F. , Rao, A. , & Duits, M. (2021). Clay- and olivine-based strategies for CO2 mitigation. Poster session presented at NWO CHAINS 2022, Veldhoven, Netherlands.

Mendel, N., Sîretanu, D. , Sîretanu, I. , Brilman, D. W. F. , & Mugele, F. (2021). Interlayer Cation-Controlled Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide in Anhydrous Montmorillonite Clay. Journal of physical chemistry C, 125(49), 27159-27169. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06746

Schellevis, H. M. , van Schagen, T. N. , & Brilman, D. W. F. (2021). Process optimization of a fixed bed reactor system for direct air capture. International journal of greenhouse gas control, 110, [103431]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103431

Yu, Q. , & Brilman, W. (2020). A radial flow contactor for ambient air CO₂ capture. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10(3), [1080]. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10031080

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