Elod Lajos Gyenge is a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the faculty of Applied Science in University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also an associate member of the Clean Energy Research Center of UBC Vancouver campus.[1] Elod Gyenge has been nominated for several teaching and research awards including Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship at Osaka University and the recipient of the distignshuied Elisabeth and Leslie Gould Endowed Professorship at UBC from 2007 to 2014.[2] His research has been toward development of electrochemical systems such as fuel cells, batteries and electrosynthesis systems. He is also an appointed professor in the engineering school of Osaka University in Japan.[3][4]
He is also the co-founder of Agora Energy Technologies, a company that he co-founded with his wife Dr Christina Gyenge.[5] The company is developing an innovative electrochemical energy storage system based on CO2-capture and recycling.[6][7] In 2021 the company received the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize for Capture & Utilization and first prize in the Hello Tomorrow global DeepTech competition against 5,000 entrants from 128 countries. The company also was the recipient of the Asian Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund Award in 2020.[8]
Career and research contributions
editElod Gyenge immigrated to Canada in 1993 and received his MASc in 1995 from the University of the British Columbia in Vancouver.[9] He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of professor Colin Oloman.[10] After Professor Oloman retired in 2001, he replaced his advisor's position as an assistant professor of electrochemical engineering.
Elod Gyenge research program has been focus on discovering highly active, durable and cost-effective electrocatalysts nanomaterials and to integrate those catalyst particles with the electrode and cell designs of the electrochemical systems such as fuel cells or batteries to develop high-performance electrochemical devices and electrosynthesis processes. Only a selected commercially attractive systems are being studies at his research team including various fuel cells (H
2, borohydride, methanol, formic acid), metal-air and novel redox flow batteries (e.g., using CO2), hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis, graphene electrochemical synthesis and applications, and CO2-based power sources.[11]
Selected publications
edit- E.L. Gyenge, ‘Redox Flow Battery with Carbon Dioxide based Redox Couple’ US Patent, (2020).[12]
- F.D. Mayer, P. Hosseini-Benhangi, C.M. Sanchez-Sanchez, E. Asselin, E.L. Gyenge, ‘Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Screening of CO2 Electroreduction Activities and Selectivites of Catalyst Arrays’, Communications Chemistry (Nature Publishing Group), 3, 1-9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-020-00399-6
- Y.Dong, et al., ‘Ammonia Thermal Treatment toward Topological Defects in Porous Carbon for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction’, Advanced Materials, 32, 2001300 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202001300
- Y.P. Wijaya, R.D. Putra, K.J. Smith, C.S. Kim, E.L. Gyenge, ‘Guaiacol Hydrogenation in Methanesulfonic Acid using a Stirred Slurry Electrocatalytic Reactor’, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9, 13164-13175 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c03332
- W.Li, A. Bonakdarpour, E.L. Gyenge, D.P. Wilkinson, ‘Production of Hydrogen Peroxide for Drinking Water Treatment in a PEM Electrolyzer at Near-Neutral pH’, J.Electrochem.Soc. 167, 044502 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab6fee
References
edit- ^ "Elod Lajos Gyenge: Professor at Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, UBC Faculty of Applied Science". UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Elod L Gyenge | Electrochemistry 2018 | Conferenceseries". electrochemistry.chemistryconferences.org. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Előd Gyenge". UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Elod L Gyenge | Electrochemistry 2018 | Conferenceseries". electrochemistry.chemistryconferences.org. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Agora is an engineering company that develops innovative non-metal CO2-based batteries for long-duration renewable energy storage". www.cartierwomensinitiative.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ^ McAleer, Brendan (2021-08-19). "Breakthrough battery technologies like iron-air or sodium-ion won't be the slam dunk you think for electric vehicles". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Agora Energy Technologies | CO2 to Energy". Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "Dr. Előd Gyenge's Company Agora Receives the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize for Capture & Utilization". UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering. 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ Gyenge, Elod Lajos (1995). In-situ delignification of wood pulp by electrochemically generated Mn(III)CyDTA (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
- ^ Gyenge, Elod Lajos (2001). Phase-transfer mediated electroreduction of oxygen to hydrogen peroxide in acid and alkaline electrolytes (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
- ^ "Előd Gyenge". UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ US 10854906, Gyenge, Elod Lajos, "Redox flow battery with carbon dioxide based redox couple", published 2020-12-01, assigned to Agora Energy Technologies Ltd.
External links
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- Elod Gyenge publications indexed by Google Scholar