Jorrit Bleeker

Background

I did the Bachelor Molecular Science and Technology and MSc Chemical Engineering both at the TU Delft. During my MSc I worked as teaching assistant for various courses and I did a honours project for DSM where my team and I made a temperature model of bread during baking. I completed my MSc thesis work with David (Designing a heat to power conversion battery), after which I finished my degree with the Erasmus+ programme doing Food & Biotechnology courses at the UCT Prague. After graduating I spent almost 2 years in the pharmaceutical industry, working as a process engineer for PM Group. While I liked my time in industry, researching something sustainable fits me better. Now I am pursuing a PhD on gas bubble behavior in renewable electrolysis.

Research interests

Electrolysis is a sustainable method of generating hydrogen or even reducing CO₂ into usable molecules such as CO or ethylene. The energy efficiency of renewable electrolysis is limited by the resistance of the flow cell. Gas bubbles are a major contribution to this resistance, but also part of the process as H₂ and CO₂ are gasses themselves. Controlling the gas bubble release and mixing around the gas bubbles allows one to increase the current density, which is the aim of my project.