Energy Systems Design Laboratory

The goal of the Energy Systems Design Laboratory  is to develop, via experimental analysis and mathematical modelling, a fundamental understanding of mass, charge, and reactive transport in mechanical and electrochemical energy systems that can minimize environmental and socio-political impact while maintaining reliability, durability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. To achieve this goal, we use the following approach:

• fabricate and characterize, via ex-situ and in-situ testing, the energy system;
• develop mathematical models of the energy system, using fluid mechanics, mass transport in porous media, charge transport and electrochemistry;
• develop optimization formulations for the design of the energy system; and
• fabricate and test the computationally optimized energy systems.