Researchers at the Joint Lab of EPFL and Empa have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that allows to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time. Image: EPFL
Researchers at the Joint Lab of EPFL and Empa have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that allows to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time. Image: EPFL - Researchers at the joint EPFL-Empa lab in Sion have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time. Infrared (IR) thermography is used to determine the temperature of humans and objects with high precision and without interfering with the system. A single image taken with an IR camera can capture the same amount of information as hundreds to millions of temperature sensors at once. What's more, modern IR cameras can achieve fast acquisition frequencies of over 50 Hz, which allows the investigation of dynamic phenomena with high resolution. Now, Swiss scientists have designed a reactor that can use IR thermography to visualize dynamic surface reactions and correlate it with other rapid gas analysis methods to obtain a holistic understanding of the reaction in rapidly changing conditions. The research was led by Robin Mutschler and Emanuele Moioli at the joint EPFL-Empa lab of Andreas Züttel in Sion and they collaborated with researchers at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
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