Workshop: Metal-enabled Cycle of Renewable Energy (MECRE)

You are warmly invited to join the 1^st Workshop on Metal-enabled Cycle of Renewable Energy (MECRE) online as follows:

Dates & times

• Day 1: Monday 31 October 2022 | 14:00-17:00 (CET) 
• Day 2: Tuesday 01 November 2022 | 09:00-16:10 (CET)

Organized by
Power & Flow group (TU/e - Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Introduction
The abundance of renewable energy sources on our planet can potentially solve the energy and climate crisis. What hinders us from transitioning to a renewable-energy landscape is the fact that most of these energy sources are geographically scattered, and highly intermittent. Therefore, temporal and regional surplus of green power must be transformed into transportable, storable, and recyclable energy carriers. Various metals (e.g., iron, aluminum, and magnesium) have been proposed as promising candidates for long-term storage and long-distance transport of renewable energy. These metals can react either with oxygen in the air to release heat, or with water to produce hydrogen. The reaction products—metal oxides—can be recycled and reduced back to metals with the input of renewable energy sources. This Workshop is the first international forum dedicated to the topic of MECRE. The world-leading scientists and technologists in this emerging field will share their novel knowledge and brainstorm game-changing solutions to accelerate the transition to clean energy via MECRE. If you are interested in joining this exciting exploration, this Workshop would be an excellent starting point!

Format
ONLINE participation 

13:00-14:00
Registration 

14:00-14:15
Introduction by the organizers 
 

SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF METAL-ENABLED CYCLE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY

14:15-14:35 
Global Opportunities and Challenges for Iron as a Recyclable Energy Carrier
by Arne Scholtissek (TU Darmstadt) 

14:35-14:55
Presentation about Metalot
by Tim Spee (Metalot & TU/e) 

14:55 -15:15
Preliminary Techno-Economic Assessment of Iron as an Energy Carrier
by Yannik Neumann (TU Darmstadt) 

15:15-16:00
Coffee break with poster session 
 

SECTION II: POTENTIAL USE OF METAL FUELS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION

16:00-16:20
Overview of the research activities for space exploration - Potential use of metal fuels
by Sebastien Vincent-Bonnieu (European Space Agency) 

16:20-16:40
Combustion of metal powders for generation of heat and electric power in space
by Evgeny Shafirovich (Univ. of Texas at El Paso) 

16:40-17:00
Speed and propagation limit of discrete flames: experimental and numerical investigation in the scope of the PERWAVES microgravity project
by Jan Palecka (McGill University) 

17:00-18:30
Reception with poster session & open discussion 

8:30-9:00
Morning coffee 
 

SECTION III: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON IRON COMBUSTION

09:00-09:20 
Optical diagnostics for single particles and particle groups in laminar flows 
by Tao Li (TU Darmstadt) 

09:20-09:40 
Experimental combustion at TU/e, from single particle experiments to large scale burners 
by Jesse Hemeete (TU/e) 

09:40-10:00 
Experimental investigation of iron-air flames in a tube burner 
by Michal Fedoryk (KIT)

10:00-10:20
On experimental techniques for studying laminar metal flames in the lab environment with particular emphasis on burners
by Samuel Goroshin (McGill University) 

10:20-10:40
Coffee break with poster session & open discussion 

SECTION IV: THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES RELATED TO IRON COMBUSTION

10:40-11:00
Numerical simulation of metal particle combustion
by Xuesong Bai (Lund Univiversity) 

11:00-11:20
The role of non-equilibrium temperature in flame synthesis of iron-oxide nanoparticles
by Igor Rahinov (The Open University of Israel) 

11:20-11:40
Simulation of iron aerosol flames: modelling single particles to large clouds
by Giel Ramaekers (TU/e) 

11:40-12:00
Current state of iron and flame species interaction kinetics
by Irenaeus Wlokas (University of Duisburg-Essen) 

12:00-13:00
Lunch 
 

SECTION V: USE OF OTHER METALS AS FUTURE ENERGY CARRIERS

13:00-13:20
Aluminum and magnesium as future zero-carbon energy carrier
by Fabien Halter (ICARE) 

13:20-13:40
Optical measurements of single aluminium particles burning in vitiated hot flow
by Zhongshan Li (Lund University) 

13:40-14:00
Metal-water reactions for on-demand hydrogen production
by Jeffrey Bergthorson (McGill) 

14:00-14:20
Magnesium/air combustion as a new source of clean energy
by Jean-François Brilhac (UHA LGRE Mulhouse) 

14:20-14:50
Coffee break with poster session & open discussion 
 

SECTION VI: FUNDAMENTALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR IRON-OXIDE REDUCTION

14:50-15:10
Low temperature hydrogen-based reduction of combusted iron powder
by Laurine Choisez (CU Leuven) 

15:10-15:30
Fundamentals of the hydrogen plasma reduction of iron ores
by Isnaldi Souza Filho (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH) 

15:30-15:50
Experiments of regeneration of iron oxide to iron
by Giulia Finotello (TU/e) 

15:50-16:10
Morphological changes of iron particles in multiple combustion-regeneration cycles
by Alexey Sepman (RISE) 

16:10-17:00
Open discussion & closing