Principal Investigator: Dr. Luca Mastropasqua
Last week, Minkyoung Park and Luca Mastropasqua participated as exhibitors at the 2026 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, in San Diego, California. Minkyoung Park presented her updates on her Ph.D. work on electrochemical plastic hydrogenolysis to produce ethylene. The goal of the project is to utilize waste streams to produce valuable chemicals using only water and …
This project performs a feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis of an integrated energy system consisting of a nuclear power plant with zero-liquid-discharge (ZLD) production of power, distillate, and mined commodities. This work paves the way for addressing freshwater scarcity while simultaneously producing electric power and economically mining high-value minerals. Seawater contains a wide variety of …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison and its partners aim to demonstrate a first-of-a-kind integration of a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) with an industrial direct reduction (DR) shaft furnace. SOEC integration with a shaft furnace offers a unique opportunity to reintegrate waste heat from shaft furnace off-gas into hydrogen generation. This hydrogen can be reutilized in …
Steel production continues to be the most impactful industrial sector in our economy in terms of carbon emissions. The main difference compared to just a couple of years ago is that now, a plethora of new renewable hydrogen projects have been announced across the world by both private and public consortia (link). The industry interest …