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 …
Project: Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics Using SLA 3D Printing A major challenge in ceramic manufacturing is the difficulty of processing these inherently brittle materials. Ceramics are difficult to machine and post-process, limiting their shapes to relatively simple geometries. This problem could be alleviated with additive manufacturing, specifically stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing. By suspending a ceramic in …
Mastropasqua has been selected by the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to receive an Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) award.
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 …
Manufacturing iron and steel is an extremely energy-intensive process, and the industry is one of the highest greenhouse gas-emitting sectors. Luca Mastropasqua, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hoping to upend those emissions.
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 …
Supervisor: Dr. Luca Mastropasqua Contact: luca.mastropasqua@wisc.edu This position has been filled – Please check back soon for more! Summary The HERD Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications for a funded graduate student position to investigate proton conducting ceramic electrochemical cells for water splitting (i.e., hydrogen production) and hydrogen separation. This project involves …
Supervisor: Dr. Luca Mastropasqua Contact: luca.mastropasqua@wisc.edu This position has been filled – Please check back soon for more! Research Motivation Road and maritime freight are sources of local emissions (especially diesel-connected PM, NOx and SOx) and global climate-altering emissions (CO2, CH4). The health and economic impacts of climate change and local air pollution produced …
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 …