Electrolysis of water 

• Cell design optimization based on conduction studies, porous media flows, and species diffusion.

• Evaluation of heat transfer and load loss in phase change phenomena.

• Operation and control of the electrolyzer.

• Dynamic modeling of electrolyzers.

• Development and testing of systems: cells, electrodes (metal powders, ceramic powders and coatings), ceramic electrolytes and interconnectors.

Water thermolysis

• Device design optimization based on the study of conduction, convection and radiation in the receivers.

• Study of heat and mass transfer phenomena in solids, porous media and kinetic reactions.

• Thermodynamic analysis of different processes with different configurations of chemical reactors using unstructured and structured catalysts.

• Catalyst development.

• Design, experimental testing and characterization of new catalysts and catalytic reactors for industrial applications.

• Simultaneous production and separation of hydrogen with membrane catalytic reactors.

• CFD modeling, analysis and optimization (DNS, LES, RANS), development of high fidelity computational tools, reduced-order modeling techniques and Data Science strategies.

• Operation and control of the reformer.

• Design, experimental testing, development and characterization of new photocatalysts for continuous industrial applications using photoreactors for solid-gas photocatalytic reactions.

• Synthesis of new semiconductor materials that can be used as photoelectrodes.

• Design, experimental testing, development and characterization of new catalysts for industrial applications and structured reactors.

• Design and sizing of infrastructures for hydrogen production.

• Infrastructures for hydrogen production.