Paulien Herder, professor in Energy Systems at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and her team in the interdisciplinary consortium RELEASE (Reversible Large-scale Energy Storage) have received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) totalling over € 10 million for research into large-scale energy storage. NWO is investing € 39 million in five large, interdisciplinary research consortia within the Crossover programme, with the aim of helping to meet various social and economic challenges.

Interview Ruud Kortlever in Process Control

There will be cheap and green hydrogen, says Ad van Wijk, professor of Future Energy Systems.

It is industrial waste, the main cause of climate change and ... a commodity that is worth money. Captured CO2 is increasingly proving itself as a building block for all kinds of useful things, from peppers to medicines.

On Wednesday May 13th, Delft University Fund organised the award ceremony of the Marina van Damme Grant 2019. This grant is made possible thanks to dr.ir. Marina van Damme and enables young female engineers to develop and boost their personal career.

TU Delft and partners Ansaldo Thomassen, OPRA Turbines, Vattenfall, Nouryon and EMMTEC have been awarded with a subsidy by the Dutch Government for the project ‘High Hydrogen Gas Turbine Retrofit to Eliminate Carbon Emissions’.

Delft flow experts have made a model of how air pollution from the A13 is spreading through neighboring Overschie. The DisTUrbE project (dispersion in the turbulent urban environment) tests the effectiveness of measures against air pollution.

TU Delft, Shell and various Top Consortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKIs) are investing 5 million euros in the development of electro-conversion technology to make the petrochemical industry more sustainable.

Andrzej Stankiewicz is stepping down as director of the TU Delft Process Technology Institute (DPTI) in June 2019. The executive board will announce his departure this month. Having led the institute for seven years, it is now time for Stankiewicz to hand over his role as director to someone else.