TU/e appoints dean Philip de Goey (Mechanical Engineering) for a third term
De Goey is the driving force behind the production of energy from the combustion of metal powder.
The Executive Board of TU Eindhoven has reappointed dean Philip de Goey of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for a third term of office. De Goey has been dean since 2011 and has been active at Eindhoven University of Technology for over thirty years. He studied Theoretical Physics at Radboud University in Nijmegen and obtained his PhD at the TU/e Physics Department in 1988. After his PhD, he continued his career as assistant professor before being appointed full-time professor by TU/e in 2000.
Philip de Goey is (co-)author of more than 400 scientific publications. Professor De Goey's research group has been working for years on clean and current combustion techniques and a particularly promising technique was started four years ago to produce energy from the combustion of metal powder. De Goey is the driving force behind the scientific work on these so-called Metal Fuels. The burning of iron powder releases a lot of heat that can be used, for example, for steam production in industry. It can also serve as an alternative to coal in power stations and as a fuel for trucks and ships.
Within five to ten years, De Goey and his research group aim to translate Metal Fuels into all kinds of applications in the field of sustainable energy. The combustion of metal powder can become a sustainable alternative to coal. Eindhoven University of Technology is building an industrial demonstration system for this at the Metalot site in Budel. The province of Noord-Brabant has received a subsidy of EUR 1 million for this, an initiative to which business and industry are also co-financiers.
‘With this demonstration system, we want to demonstrate that large-scale combustion of metal powder, iron powder in this case, is possible,’ says Professor De Goey. Earlier this year it was announced that Swinkels Family Brewers (formerly Bavaria NV) will use metal powder as a sustainable fuel to produce steam for their brewing process. They will do this with the help of an installation built by students and researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology, engineering companies and Metalot.
Career
In his role as dean, de Goey has turned the Department of Mechanical Engineering into a strong department with a strong team of researchers. In 2014 and 2015, De Goey guided the department through a period of severe austerity and financial deficits. The major renovation of the Gemini departmental building will start this year and De Goey will play an important role in this.
De Goey started his career at TU/e. After gaining his PhD he became assistant professor from 1988 to 1995. The following period (1995-2000) he was associate professor of combustion technology at TU/e. He has been a full professor since 2000 and in 2002 he became scientific director of Combustion Technology Group. De Goey has been a visiting professor at BIT in Beijing since 2011, where he was appointed chief scientist of the Chinese 111 program in 2014. He was chairman of the platform 'Clean and Efficient Combustion' STW-SZV (2001-2005) and program leader of the STW Clean Combustion Concepts perspective program (2008-2015).
De Goey is a member of the Board of Project Leaders of Research Schools JMBC, OSPT, member of the Executive Board of the Combustion Institute (2004-2020) and secretary of the Executive Committee of the Executive Board (2016-2020). He was also editor-in-chief of the top journal 'Proceedings' of the Combustion Institute. De Goey is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of OWI Aachen, and of the Engineering School of Aalto University. In 2010 he received the Simon Stevin Master 2010, the highest Dutch engineering science award (worth €500,000). In 2018 he was elected fellow of the Combustion Institute.