L aboratory of E nergy S cience and E ngineering Development of Innovative Processes for the Sustainable Production of Fuels, Chemicals and Electricity Numerical Simulations Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cutting Edge MRI Technology Probing Two-Phase Granular Systems Granular Physics Massive Parallel Cluster Computing Direct Numerical Simulation of Gas-Solid Systems Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Gas- Solid Systems www.ese.mavt.ethz.ch Dynamic particle simulations CO 2 Capture Heterogeneous Catalysis FID+TCD Ion chamber I 0 Gas Outlet Gas inlet Monochromators T = 50-700 ºC P = 1-20 bar Capillary reactor in-out XAS detector XRD detector Catalyst I t CO 2 + 3 H 2 → CH 3 OH + H 2 O CO 2 + CH 4 → 2 CO + 2 H 2 CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol : Dry reforming of methane: Methanol production rate Structure-performance relationship Colloidal nanoparticles Porous supports Final catalyst CO 2 Capture & Utilization C O O Ni/SiO 2 @Al 2 O 3 (ALD) and Methane Consumption Rate CaO +CO 2 ↔ CaCO 3 MgO + CO 2 ↔ MgCO 3 Ca-looping Mg-looping: time on stream In 2 O 3 m-ZrO 2 Zr O In (Photo)electrochemical Energy Conversion Water O 2 H 2 Water OH H H H OH HO OH H 2 H 2 CO 2 Value-added chemicals + + (Photo)electro- catalysts 1 1 1 1