News Archive
Dr. Alon Lidor appointed Senior Researcher at external pageNREL
EU-Project “Sun-to-Liquid” is awarded the Energy Globe World Award 2021
PhD student Remo Schäppi gives a talk on solar transportation fuels at the International Solar Energy Society Webinar “Transforming the Air, Sea, and Land Freight Transport Sector”. Watch recording external pagehere.
PREC contributes with 2 oral presentations to the CHT-21 - 8th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer. Watch recordings here.
Dr. Emiliano Casati gives an invited talk at external pageKAUST's Near Zero-Carbon Combustion Technology. Watch recording here.
Dr. Brendan Bulfin gives the keynote at external pageAIChE's Solar Energy Systems Conference 2021
PREC contributes with 3 oral presentations to the ASME Energy Sustainability Conference 2021. Watch recordings here.
- The ETH Sustainability Report highlights our research on solar fuels
- PhD student Vikas Patil talks about "Coupling the Monte Carlo method with fluid flow modeling in a high-temperature volumetric solar air receiver" at the TFEC2021 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference. Watch recording here.
- PhD student Marco Gigantino receives the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2021 for his research on “Thermochemical Energy Storage via Reversible Redox Reactions ". Watch recording here.
- 7 PREC papers listed as "Highly Cited" in 2020 by Web-of-Science
- PREC featured in US-PBS Nova film external page"Can we cool the planet?" (English) external page"Erderwärmung stoppen - aber wie?" (Deutsch)
- PhD student Remo Schäppi talks about "Treibstoff aus Luft und Sonnenlicht" at Treffpunkt Science City 2020. Watch recording (in Deutsch) here.
- PREC contributes with 5 oral presentations to the AIChE Conference 2020. Watch recordings here.
- PhD student Sebastian Sas awarded the ETH Medal 2020 for his Master thesis
- BFE Report 2019: Solar fuels for aviation (E / D / F)
- external pageAdvanced Science News - Flying high on carbon dioxide: Decarbonizing aviation
- Press release by Lufthansa Group: external pageFlying with sunlight / external pageMit Sonnenlicht fliegen
- SWISS Aeropolitics: Schweizer Innovationen der ETH als Hoffnungsträger für effektive CO2-Reduktion
- 8 PREC papers listed as "Highly Cited" in 2019 by Web-of-Science
- SRF EINSTEIN features PREC's solar mini-refinery with Philipp Furler
- Polykum interviews PhD student Remo Schäppi
- PREC receives "Top 10 Innovations" award 2019
- SCIENTIFICA interviews PhD student Remo Schäppi - "Kann man aus Luft und Sonnenlicht Kerosin herstellen?"
- Fuels from Sunlight and Air - ETH press release 13-6-2019 in English
- Fuels from Sunlight and Air - ETH press release 13-6-2019 in Deutsch
- Solar kerosene from water and CO2 in a solar tower plant - SUN-to-LIQUID video clip
- external pageBlogpost: "Environmental Activist Wanted"external page
- PREC's PhD student Marco Gigantino meets environmental activist Greta Thunberg
- DownloadLe Matin interviews Furler about solar kerosene, 6-1-2019 (PDF, 305 KB)
- external pageAdvanced Science News reports about our solar fuel project
- First time: solar jet fuel (E) / Erstmals: solarer Flugzeugtreibstoff (D)
- external pageCooper appointed Asst. Professor at York University
- external pageMuhich appointed Asst. Professor at Arizona State University
- CLIMEWORKS - spinoff from PREC - commissions world first commercial plant for CO2 capture from air
- PREC made the front cover of Energy & Environmental Science, May 2017
- PREC receives the 2017 Achievement through Action Award by the Int. Solar Energy Society
- Blog from PREC: "external pageFollowing the sunlight, going into a new era!"
- Blog from PREC: "external pageWill we suffocate in our waste?"
- PREC project AACAES featured in Swiss TV news
- Electricity storage via air compression in the Swiss Alps
- SGVC-Preis 2017 to Philipp Roos for his Master thesis
- Solar methanol paper among Energy Technology's top 10 articles of 2016
- Galvez promoted to Associate Professor at the external pageUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne Universités
- 2016 ASME Graduate Student Award to Simon Ackermann
- PREC made the front cover of Energy Technology, Vol. 4, Nr. 5, 2016
- external pageSNF’s video features our project "Electricity Storage via Adiabatic Air Compression"
- external pageMuhich appointed Asst. Professor at Arizona State University
- PREC project AACAES featured in Swiss TV news
- Electricity storage via air compression in the Swiss Alps
- CLIMEWORKS – spinoff from PREC – commissions world first commercial plant for CO2 capture from air
- PREC made the front cover of Energy & Environmental Science, May 2017
- SGVC-Preis 2017 to Philipp Roos for his Master thesis
- Galvez promoted to Associate Professor at the external pageUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne Universités
- 2016 ASME Graduate Student Award to Simon Ackermann
- PREC made the front cover of Energy Technology, Vol. 4, Nr. 5, 2016
- external pageSNF’s video features our project "Electricity Storage via Adiabatic Air Compression"
- external pageFirst time: solar jet fuel production from H2O and CO2(Video clip)
- Michalsky awarded the external pageAMBIZIONE Energy Grant by SNF
- Furler appointed Operating Agent of Solar Chemistry of external pageSOLARPACES
- Best Presentation at AIChE Annual Meeting 2015 for Nikolas Tzouganatos
- external pagePREC’s paper in “Energy Technology” named one of the top ten of 2015
- external pageAIREG Award 2015 to SOLAR-JET Project
- external pageRTS broadcast about our solar fuels research
- Lipinski promoted to Full Professor at ANU
- 2016 Best Paper Award by the TMS
- 2015 ASME Swiss Section Young Engineer Award to MSc thesis of Nicolas Ettlin
- 2015 ETH Medal to MSc thesis of Adrian Reinhart
- Runner-up Zuger Wissenschaftspreis 2015 for Fabian Dähler
- 11th SOLLAB Doctoral Colloquium & SFERA-II Winter School 2015
- Hans-Eggenberger-Preis 2014 to Tom Cooper for his PhD Thesis
- ETH Medal + Chorafas Prize 2014 to Tom Cooper for his PhD Thesis
- Dr. Erik Koepf appointed Chair of the ASME Solar Chemistry Committee
- Dr. Jonathan Scheffe appointed Asst. Professor at the University of Florida, USA.
- Dr. Elena Galvez appointed Asst.Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universités, France.
- 2014 ASME Graduate Student Award to Tom Cooper
- First time: solar jet fuel (E) / Erstmals: solarer Flugzeugtreibstoff (D) 2015
- ETH Medal 2014 to Raghav Khanna
- ETH Medal 2014 to Fabian Dähler
- external pageRecycling zinc with concentrated solar energy
- Prof. Steinfeld received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award 2013
- Hans-Eggenberger-Prize 2013 to Silvan Suter
- Best Paper Award by Solar Energy Journal
- ETH Medal 2013 to Daniel Marxer
- The Power of 2000 Suns – CPV project
- external pageThe sun rises for cement
- PREC made the front cover of Energy & Environmental Science, November 2012
- Dr. Jonathan Scheffe appointed Chair of the Solar Chemistry Committee of the external pageASME Solar Energy Division
- European Talent Award for lnnovative Energy Systems 2012 to MSc Thesis of Peter Pozivil
- Best Paper Award 2011 by TMS (external pageTMS)
- ETH Medal 2011 and Chorafas Prize 2011 to Dr. Sophia Haussener
- Swisselectric Research Award 2011 to Dr. Illias Hischier
- VDI Preis 2011 to MSc. Thesis of Christoph Falter
- Our article in SCIENCE, 2010
- SOLLAB Doctoral Colloquium, Grindelwald, March 21-23, 2011
- SFERA Winter School, Zurich, March 24-25, 2011
- DownloadOur research is featured in SCIENCE, 2009 (PDF, 918 KB)
- DownloadOur research is featured in CALTECH Engineering & Science Magazine, 2009 (PDF, 6.7 MB)
- 2009 ETH Medal awarded to Master student Jan Wurzbacher for his MSc thesis entitled “A non-stationary solar thermal power cycle”
- 2009 HILTI Award to Dr. Andreas Z'Graggen for his PhD thesis entitled "Solar Gasification of Carbonaceous Materials - Reactor Design. Modeling, and Experimentation"
- 2009 Excellence Scholarship Award to Master student Philipp Good, to investigate solar water desalination
- Dr. Joerg Petrasch was appointed Asst. Professor at the external pageUniversity of Florida (2009)
- external pageDr. Wojciech Lipinski was appointed Asst. Professor at the University of Minnesota (2008)
- external pageProf. Steinfeld is recipient of the 2008 ASME Yellott Award for outstanding contributions to solar engineering through high quality research and education
- 2008 SHELL Award to Viktoria Nikulshyna
- 2008 Excellence Scholarship Award to Master student Michael Kruesi, to investigate the solar production of aluminum