应中国科学院可再生能源重点实验室和广东省新能源和可再生能源研究开发与应用重点实验室的邀请，比利时根特大学Joris W. Thybaut教授将于4月26日（周五）来访并举行学术报告会。报告会安排如下。

时    间：下午16：00-17:30

地    点：节能与环保大楼10层报告厅　

报告题目：Electricity is in the catalyst: a reaction engineering approach to gas treatment and valorization

报告摘要：The use of electricity as an energy source ，provides a unique opportunity for innovating the reactor configuration for (highly) endothermic reactions. The ElectroThermal Fluidized Bed (ETFB) reactor is a recently developed reactor technology to meet these specific requirements. Intended gas conversion applications for an ETFB reactor involve methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production with solid carbon formation as byproduct. It concerns a widely investigated reaction ，relevant not only for stranded gas valorization ，but also for the upgradation of locally produced biogas.

报告人简介：

Joris W. Thybaut (°1975 ，Ghent Belgium) is senior full professor in catalytic reaction engineering at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University. He obtained his PhD at Ghent University in 2002 after which he went to the‘Institut des Recherches sur la Catalyse‘in France ，for a postdoc. Prof. Thybaut actively investigates a variety of large-scale industrial hydrocarbon conversion reactions and more particularly ，the rational design of the corresponding catalysts ，reactors and processes. Research projects range from bilateral contracts with industrial partners up to government funded large scale integrated projects ，either as PI (E ，NEXT-STEP ，COP-CAT ，NextBioRef ，…) or coordinator (e-CODUCT ，GREEN-B2B ，OBIWAN…). Prof. Thybaut served as visiting professor at the Japanese Advanced Institute for Science and Technology in the period 2020-2021. He's also one of the leading academics in the Eurokin consortium on kinetics and reactors (www.eurokin.org). His work has received appreciation as editor's choice in AIChE J. and has been on the cover of various journals. A steady evolution from more classical refining reactions to renewables valorization can be discerned in his research activities. Most recently ，as part of bilateral collaborations the scope of the investigated chemistry is further being extended towards inorganic reactions ，pharmaceutical applications and circular chemistry.

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