Guest scientist Dr. Marley Becerra (KTH Stockholm)

Dr. Marley Becerra is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He leads the research group on Applied Physics in Electrotechnology. He is taking at sabbatical year at TU Dresden since August 2021.

Plasma chemical storage and conversion using warm discharges : The purpose of this research area is to develop an efficient plasma-based chemical conversion system to synthesize essential carbon-based chemicals by utilizing greenhouse gases instead of fossil fuels. Plasma chemical conversion is a promising but still widely unexplored technology which we believe can cost-effectively produce carbon-neutral chemicals when renewable energy is used to feed the process. Among other advantages, it has low investment and operating cost, high energy efficiency, simplicity, compactness, modularity and does not use rare-earth materials. Since it also can be turned on and off very fast (below a millisecond), it can be used to store surplus wind or solar energy in a power-to-chemicals approach.

Further information:
Research group at KTH Stockholm
Project page at KTH Stockholm