Advanced Electrochemical Manufacturing

时间：2025年3月5日下午14:00

地点：化学学科楼四楼报告厅

报告人简介：

Professor Adrian Fisher founded the Centre for Research in Electrochemical, Science & Technology (CREST) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB), in 2003, since that time the centre has expanded to establish laboratories in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) in Singapore, where he is a PI for the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education (CARES) and the Cambridge University Virtual laboratory, located in the International Centre for Soft Matter, Beijing, where he work in the area of electrochemical numerical simulation. As a passionate educator in his field he has recently founded a series of international programmes training in electrochemical techniques. To date industry, academic and postgraduate delegates from Europe, US, Middle East, South America, Asia and Australia have attended these programmes.

His research is focused on energy transition and the technologies that will contribute to future low carbon chemical manufacturing approaches using electrolysis, this has led to in excess of 200 academic papers in journals, (eg Nature Energy, ACS, Adv.Mat., etc), demonstrations at international events (eg London Design Festival, Salon Satellite, Milan design festival), presentations at international conferences, features in popular science publications such as New Scientist and coverage on the BBC and ITV.

His bioelectrochemical research has led to the award of the 2017 Newton Prize, with longterm collaborator (Phang) at University of Malaya, for the development of technologies which can generate electricity and biofuel from effluent waste.

报告摘要：

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, a rapid and deep reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is required, yet progress remains slow. Electrochemical technologies, combined with low-cost renewable electricity, offer a promising solution for segments of the chemical industry; however, the deployment of electrochemical technologies remains elusive. This thesis aims to understand how actors can accelerate transitions to more sustainable, low-carbon-emitting electrochemical technologies for a segment of the chemical industry.

Electrification has evolved rapidly into a global priority, directly shaping not only the energy system but also society, global development and energy politics internationally. A high degree of electrification across society is technically feasible and an increasingly political priority, with areas such as renewable electricity well advanced. Electrification in areas such as industrial manufacturing, using electrolysis is, however, proceeding less rapidly.

Around 96% of all manufactured goods contain some of the > 70,000 chemicals produced internationally, so it is critical we rapidly decarbonise this “hard to abate” industry and in the process, take a major step forward in global warming mitigation. A significant opportunity for electrification in industrial manufacturing lies in electro(photo)chemical synthesis, development of hybrid cogeneration fuel cells, and production of novel high selectively electrocatalytic energy materials. While decarbonizing thousands of chemical processes is a longterm goal, we should appreciate transforming a small subset of the top 18 commodity chemicals would transform >80% of the energy utilization in the sectors.

In this presentation we will focus on the groups approaches to data acquisition and analysis highlighting opportunities for automation, advanced control and optimized design of electrochemical reactors.

Keywords: Technology, Energy, Hydrogen economy, Renewable Electricity