Krisztian Ronaszegi' Webpage
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Postgraduate Researcher Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 2643 Email: krisztian.ronaszegi.10@ucl.ac.uk |
Address: Department of Chemical Engineering University College London Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE United Kingdom |
Krisztian Ronaszegi
graduated as a Chemical Engineer in 2005 at the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics. His mayors were Organic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical
Chemistry. During his study he spent a semester in Sweden at the Lund University
as an Erasmus student where he pursued studies in Polymer Chemistry,
Biotechnology and Bio-ethanol Process Engineering.
After he received his MSc in
Chemical Engineering he changed his focus to Physics. He worked three years as a
research assistant in Theoretical Physics at the same university, but during
this time he spent one year in USA at the Maryland University as a visitor
researcher. He subsequently worked at the interface between Chemistry and
Physics as a Research Engineer at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the
Chemical Research Centre where he specialised in the development of
supercapacitors and electrochemical methods.
Krisztian is currently doing his PhD in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab on engineering aspects of solar water splitting.
Research project
Title: Engineering and diagnostic development of solar water splitting technology
Supervisors: Dr Dan Brett and Prof Eric Fraga
Growing global energy demand and finite conventional fuel resource mean that we must look elsewhere to secure a sustainable energy future. Renewable energy technologies are one of the ways to reach this goal and hydrogen as an energy vector is seen to be a promising way of storing and transporting energy in a chemical form.
One of the newest and the most promising methods for the production of hydrogen is via solar water splitting. In this way, the generated hydrogen can be stored and used on-demand as an energy source for heating or electricity production using fuel cells.
Significant work has been done on the development of the materials necessary to achieve effective water splitting. Attention is now turning to the engineering challenges of developing a robust and economically attractive technology. This project is concerned with the development of diagnostic techniques scrutinise the internal workings of such devices and focus on the engineering issues of construction, operation, manufacture and integration into the application environment.
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