TU Darmstadt Research Fellowship for Professor Bergthorson

As the second TU Darmstadt Research Fellow, he is working with researchers from the Clean Circles cluster project to investigate how metals and metal oxides can be used in a cycle as a carbon-free chemical energy carrier to store wind and solar energy. Stored in this way, renewable energy can be transported and released when needed through CO₂-free high-temperature combustion. Electricity generation in power plants or processes in the chemical industry can thus be retrofitted to be CO₂-free. The resulting metal oxides are captured and recycled. In Clean Circles, Prof. Bergthorson will contribute his expertise in the field of thermochemical oxidation, i.e. the storage of renewable energy.

Professor Jeffrey Bergthorson researches and teaches at McGill University in Canada and directs the Alternative Fuel Lab. He received his PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and has received numerous honors and awards. In the process, he has published over 250 scientific contributions in the context of metallic energy sources and combustion research. In addition to iron, he sees aluminum as a promising energy carrier that can be used to produce hydrogen.