Electrified metamaterial reactors for process intensified thermochemistry

The electrification of thermochemical processes with clean electricity has great potential as both an immediate and long-term solution towards the scalable decarbonization of chemical production. In this talk, I will discuss new paradigms in electrified thermochemical reactors based on high frequency electromagnetic fields. I will first discuss metamaterial reactors in which a volumetric open-cell lattice baffle is inductively heated with heating profiles tailored by reaction engineering considerations. I will next discuss resonant metamaterial reactors, a new class of reactor in which energy transduction is achieved by principles in resonant wireless power transfer. I will finally discuss how high frequency electric fields can be coupled to feedstocks and catalysts to facilitate new modes of selective energy transfer.

Speaker: Jonathan Fan, Stanford University

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