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Mike Golombok is a part-time professor in the Power Flow group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is seconded from Shell, where he develops projects related to renewable energy storage applications. His previous work included carbon capture and CO2 removal from gas streams, centrifugal phase separation, pipeline acoustics, and the engineering concepts behind geothermal reservoirs for the Dogger Bank Wind Energy Hub. He teaches a Master's course in 'Energy Geoscience,' which covers topics relevant to carbon capture storage (CCS), hydrogen storage, and geothermal engineering for subsurface flow. His current research activities include developing dense energy carriers, such as iron powder, that provide heat in industrial processes using renewables to address the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy. He is also focused on improving DC electric vehicle charging to match the speed of gasoline refueling, aiming to create innovative power processors that can work alongside retail battery energy storage systems. Additionally, he is engaged in CO2 electrolytic conversion to ethylene, collaborating with colleagues from chemistry and mechanical engineering to explore new methods for increasing the efficiency and scalability of electrodes used in this process.
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