Tandem and Hybrid Processes for Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Abstract

Sean Overa received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina and is currently a chemical engineering PhD student in the Jiao group at the University of Delaware. His research is on electrochemical processes and reactor design, with a focus in two-step electrochemical conversion of CO₂. Primarily his work has focused on the production, design, and scale-up of zero-gap electrolyzers for conversion of CO₂ and CO to multi-carbon products. Tony Feric received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and is currently a chemical engineering PhD student in the Park group at Columbia University. His research is focused on the design and development of novel nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs) for CO₂ capture and electrochemical conversion to value-added products. More specifically, he is exploring their dynamics in solution, evaluating their stability under different processing conditions and understanding their unique interactions at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park is the Lenfest Professor in applied climate science of Earth and environmental engineering & chemical engineering at Columbia University and is the director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Her research focuses on sustainable energy and materials conversion pathways with emphasis on integrated Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Park has led a number of global and national discussions on CCUS including the Mission Innovation Workshop on CCUS (2017) and the National Petroleum Council CCUS Report (2019). She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, and Royal Society of Chemistry. Feng Jiao received a B.S. in chemistry from Fudan University and a PhD in chemistry from University of St Andrews. After a postdoctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dr. Jiao joined the University of Delaware as a faculty member in 2010. He is now the Robert Grasselli Development Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and serves as the director of the Center for Catalytic Science & Technology. The Jiao group focuses primarily on nanostructured materials, electrocatalysis, and carbon dioxide utilization.