ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society: The Rustum Roy Lecture: ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society: The Rustum Roy Lecture
Sponsored by: ACerS
Program Organizers: MS&T Administration, MS&T PCC
Tuesday 1:00 PM
October 19, 2021
Room: B130
Location: Greater Columbus Convention Center
1:00 PM Invited
Advanced Ceramics for Energy and Environmental Technology: Alexander Michaelis1; 1Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies & Systems IKTS
Advanced ceramic materials offer enormous potential for innovations in the fields of energy conversion and storage as well as environmental technology. We present specific examples for the development of ceramic based electrolysis systems for hydrogen and syngas production as well as ceramic membrane systems. For electrolysis we employ SOE (solid oxide electrolysis) technology. A big advantage compared to other electrolysis systems is the possibility to use these SOE systems for co-electrolysis, i.e. CO2 can actively be removed from the environment and be converted to syngas. This syngas can be further processed, e.g. by Fischer Tropsch processes to produce higher added products such as e-fuels, higher alcohols, and waxes. For this, we present a fully integrated co-electrolysis Fischer Tropsch System. In order to produce the needed purified water for electrolysis we develop ceramic membrane systems for the treatment of waste water.