Alex Lamb
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Alex Lamb is a postdoctoral researcher in the Membrane Materials and Processes group in the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is currently a part of the ELECTRIFIED consortium, an industrial and academic collaboration focusing on the sustainable drying of biomass materials (such as food products) using electrical techniques. He is working on the design of a bench scale system for the electro-osmotic dewatering of biomass. Electro-osmosis is a phenomenon that exploits the electrical double layer and charges naturally present in biomass to remove water using an external applied electric field. By avoiding the energy-intensive phase transition from liquid water to steam, biomass can be dewatered using a fraction of the energy consumed by traditional thermal methods.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Alex Lamb received dual bachelor's degrees in Applied Science and Nanotechnology from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. Alex holds a PhD in chemistry also from RMIT University. His doctoral research focused on the use of experimental and computational methods to study transformations of biomass into biodiesel using heterogeneous catalysts. He is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Membrane Materials and Processes group at the TU/e, researching sustainable electrical techniques for biomass dewatering.
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