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Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers (PREC)

The Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers's research program is aimed at the advancement of the thermal and chemical engineering sciences applied to renewable energy technologies. The fundamental research focusses on high-temperature heat/mass transfer phenomena, multi-phase reacting flows, thermochemistry and functional redox materials. These are applied in the development of technologies for concentrated solar power and solar fuels production, solar-driven thermochemical processing of energy-intensive chemical commodities, direct air capture of CO2 and its utilization, energy storage and sustainable energy systems. PREC pioneers the development of solar concentrating technologies for efficiently producing clean power, fuels, and materials.
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ETH News: 3D printed reactor core makes solar fuel production more efficient (English/Deutsch)

Synhelion’s solar fuel technology in operation under concentrated solar radiation at the DLR solar tower facility in Jülich, Germany (Photo credit: Synhelion)

ETH/Synhelion/AMAG/SBB technical, economic, and environmental analysis of solar drop-in fuels (English/Deutsch)

Magazine BILANZ devotes its cover and feature article to our research and spinoffs (DownloadDeutsch (PDF, 1.9 MB))

Our solar mini-refinery on the cover of the ETH-Infobrochure "Where the future begins" (DownloadEnglish (PDF, 6.3 MB)/DownloadDeutsch (PDF, 6.3 MB))

Link to Nature paper "Drop-​​in fuels from Sunlight and Air" (external pageSharedIt link, external pageDOI)

ETH-​​News reports on our publication in Nature “Drop-​​in Fuels from Sunlight and Air” (English/Deutsch)

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