School of Chemical Engineering

Carbon dioxide capture and utilisation group

We are mainly focused on the fields of capturing and utilising carbon dioxide waste emitted from energy-intensive industries.

Our research interests include:

  • Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to produce value-added products
  • Electro-catalysts design and development
  • CO2 capture techniques and process integration
  • Electrode structure design and optimisation
  • CO2 electrolyser development and optimisation
  • Industrial carbon footprint mapping and modelling
  • Techno-economic feasibility analysis for CO2 capture and utilisation technologies.

Facilities

  1. Metrohm Autolab/PGSTAT302N equipped with BOOSTER20A
  2. PerkinElmer Spectrum 100 FT-IR spectrometer equipped with ATR
  3. Gas Chromatograph (GC) – 2014, Shimadzu, Japan
  4. Gas Chromatograph (GC) – 8A, Shimadzu, Japan
  5. Clarus 600/680 GC-MS, PerkinElmer
  1. Mass Spectrometer BELMass – Japan
  2. Surface Area and Porosity System TriStar – Micromeritics
  3. RRDE-3A Rotating Ring Disk Electrode Apparatus
  4. Thermal Analyser STA6000 – PerkinElmer
  5. Laboratory scale carbon dioxide electrolysis cell-Beta with gas diffusion electrode (GDE)

5. Clarus 600/680 GC-MS, PerkinElmer

Clarus 600/680 GC-MS, PerkinElmerThis equipment is a refined benchtop mass spectrometric detector that provides you with simple tools needed to execute the routine gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GS/MS) analyses as well as the tools required to execute more complex analyses. Electron ionization (EI) mode or chemical ionization (CI) mode are used in MS runs for the characterization of the samples.

This equipment is controlled using a PerkinElmer TurboMassTM GC/MS software.