Horst Complex

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

Full Professor
TNW-CE-SPT
Horst Complex ME222
d.w.f.brilman@utwente.nl
+31534892141
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Derk Willem Frederik Brilman (Wim) was born on February 19th 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.

Expertise

  • Chemical Engineering

    • Temperature
    • Water
    • Adsorption
    • Amine

  • Chemistry

    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Procedure
    • Reaction Temperature
    • Water Type

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Ancillary activities

  • Commissie m.e.r.Commissie m.e.r.
  • Demcon-Susterconsultancy
  • ReCarbnAdvisory

Publications

2024

Smectite-rich Clays for CO2 Adsorption and Separation (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Mendel, N.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036562119BioLOGIC Process: Design of a medium-scale CO2 to methanol unit (2024)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Valencia Martin, M.Optimizing direct air capture under varying weather conditions (2024)Energy Advances, 3(7), 1678-1687. Schellevis, H. M., de la Combé, J. D. & Brilman, D. W. F.https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ya00200hScalable Jet-Based Fabrication of PEI-Hydrogel Particles for CO2 Capture (2024)Energy and Environmental Materials. Article e12748 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Jiang, J., van Daatselaar, E., Wijnja, H., de Koning Gans, T., Schellevis, M., Venner, C. H., Brilman, D. W. F. & Visser, C. W.https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12748Experimental study of CO2 capture from air via steam-assisted temperature-vacuum swing adsorption with a compact kg-scale pilot unit (2024)Reaction chemistry & engineering (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Schellevis, H. M. & Brilman, D. W. F.https://doi.org/10.1039/d3re00460k

2023

Biogas Upgrading Using Cation-Exchanged Bentonite Clay (2023)Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 62(43), 17883-17892. Mendel, N., Sîretanu, I., Mugele, F. & Brilman, D. W. F. W.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c016351D Modeling Approach for Heat Transfer in Packed Beds with Embedded Heat Sources (2023)Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 62(39), 16139-16153. van Schagen, T. & Brilman, D. W. F.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c02399The Infinity Reactor: A new conceptual design for a more cost-efficient CO2 to methanol route (2023)In 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (pp. 2309-2316) (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 52). Elsevier. Keestra, H., Zondervan, E. & Brilman, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50368-1CO2 capture from air: A process engineering approach (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Schellevis, M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555852Advances in reverse electrodialysis for renewable energy generation (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Simões, C.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555197

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME222
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
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