Our commitment to sustainability drives us to explore the possibilities of green hydrogen production, a key focus of our research. By pushing the boundaries of power conversion and electrolysis technologies, we aim to contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
Research scope
- Develop new power converter topologies for efficient integration of electrolyzers with energy storage systems
- Develop advanced control methods for enabling electrolyzers to participate in grid services
- Enhance the electrolyzer lifetime through intelligent power smoothing control schemes
- Developing new grid services by using electrolyzers
- Investigation of the transient phenomena during operation of electrolyzers
- Designing the predictive and real-time intelligent power management tools for electrolyzers
- Electrochemistry of Electrolyzer Systems
Research topics
Energy Efficient Power Converter Topology
- Thyristor based converters
- IGBT based converters
- SiC device based power converters
- AC-DC isolated converter
- Integrated approach to converter design
Grid services and grid stability improvement
- Coordination control of electrolyzer/energy storage systems
- Frequency containment and frequency restoration grid services
- Grid forming control of electrolyzer power supply for stability improvement
- Transient grid services
- Intelligent AI-based power management tools
- Dynamic modelling and simulation
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation and studies
- Protection of electrolyzers
Dynamic modelling and simulation
- Dynamic modelling of electrolyzer (Multiphysics model/ AI based model/ Lookup table-based model)
- Digital twin of electrolyzer and power supply
- Modelling and analysis of the interaction of electrolyzer with grid
- Modeling of control loops and analysis of their impact on the system dynamics
Electrochemistry of electrolyzer
- Dynamic modelling of electrolyzer electrochemistry (Multiphysics model/ AI based model/ Lookup table-based model)
- Digital twin of electrolyzer stacks, electrodes, membranes, electrolyte/electrode flow field and power supply
- Innovative stack design
Research group
- Thomas Ebel (Prof., Dr. rer. nat., Group leader)
- Ramkrishan Maheshwari (Assoc. Professor)
- Luciana Tavares (Assoc. Professor)
- Mohammad Sadegh Golsorkhi (Assoc. Professor)
- Navid Bayati (Assistant Professor)