Power-to-X infrastructure

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The basis of Power-to-X technologies is in the utilization of renewable electricity and CO2 to produce fossil-free, sustainable products for industrial use and transportation.

In the Power-to-X laboratory different sectors of P2X processes, including CO2 capture, H2 production, and chemical syntheses can be investigated.
Infrastructure allows both experimental and simulation studies. Combination of these allows the investigation of novel processes as well as optimization and scale-up of already known processes.

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Group leader

Pertti Kauranen

Full professor (tenured)

Electrical Engineering

Pertti.Kauranen@lut.fi

+358 50 574 8912

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Research areas

Main research areas include:

Carbon capture and utilization
Water electrolysis
Chemical synthesis
Gas separation
Process modeling, simulation, and optimization

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Infrastructure

P2X infrastructure includes laboratories for hydrogen production, gas separation and synthesis processes.

Hydrogen laboratory
Hydrogen laboratory include test facilities for water electrolysis research. The laboratory includes test stations for single cell and short stack testing of alkaline and PEM electrolyzers. Furthermore, the alkaline water electrolysis laboratory offers balance of plant for testing alkaline water electrolyzer stacks at industrial current and voltage levels.
Synthesis laboratory
Gas separation and synthesis laboratory includes facilities suitable for investigations of methanol synthesis, Fischer–Tropsch (FT), methanol-to-olefins (MTO), and olefins-to-hydrocarbons processes. Various analytical techniques, including gas chromatography and FTIR, are available for synthesis product identification and quantification.
Gas separation laboratory
Gas separation laboratory includes facilities suitable for synthesis, characterization, and testing of advanced materials for gas separation.