PHD Position CFD-FEM Modelling

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Research Field Engineering » Chemical engineering Engineering » Electrical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Application Deadline 10 Jul 2026 - 21:59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Permanent Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 38.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description How will you electrify our future CO2 conversion reactors? Job description CO2 conversion reactors depend on adequate heating and heat management. Several thermochemical pathways involve high-temperature (> 300 °C) endothermic reactions, that depend on technically feasible, efficient and economically attractive heating by green electricity. A typical example is the dry reforming of biomethane, which is taken in this project as a model reaction to develop and further mature electric heating technologies. The developed technologies can be readily transferred to other relevant reactions for carbon-based chemistry, including reverse water-gas shift (CO2 + H2 <-> CO + H2O), leading to technology transition moving away from conventional fossil-fuel heated refining processes to the refinery of the future. In this challenging PhD project we ask you to combine knowledge and models from three different domains: electromagnetism, thermo-hydraulics and reaction kinetics. In particular, we aim to develop both surface heating solutions (through resistive and impedance heating) and volume heating solutions (through impedance and induction heating) for catalytic flow reactors. The work will be performed in the Process and Energy Department of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty (Johan Padding), in close collaboration with the Electrical Engineering Faculty of TU Delft (Mohamad Niasar) and the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Depart...