M.Sc. Supriya Bhaskaran
M.Sc. Supriya Bhaskaran
Born 1997 in Chennai, India
August 2014 - May 2018
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai, India.
August 2018 - July 2020
Masters Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, India.
Master Thesis:
“Development of three-dimensional LBM to study the film effects during isothermal evaporative drying in a square capillary tube”.
Research
Since October 2020
Research Assistant, Chair of Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-University and International Max Planck Resesarch School, Magdeburg.
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation for invasion processes during water electrolysis.
Among the critical challenges of the 21st century, providing sufficient and clean energy for a growing population while coping with the difficulties of global warming is still a struggle to the scientific community. Thus, transforming renewable energy to most reliable form of energy, electrochemical energy conversion is more promising technology. Therefore, water electrolysis is a major technology in demand for future sustainable development and the efficient hydrogen production is a potential substitute to the energy economy as hydrogen economy.
Here, we elucidate the invasion pattern of O2 gas evolving during the electrochemical splitting of water and mass transport losses in the anodic porous transport layer (PTL) using Lattice Boltzmann model (LBM). LBM is a mesoscale approach which plays as an interface by solving the Navier-Stokes equation at macroscale and imitate the pseudopotential intermolecular forces at microscale. Validation experiments will be provided to further to track the invasion patterns and renders LBM as a powerful multiphase CFD tool for intricate application of electrolysis in PTL.
- Panda, D., Supriya, B., Kharaghani, A., Tsotsas, E., & Surasani, V. K. (2020). Lattice Boltzmann simulations for micro-macro interactions during isothermal drying of bundle of capillaries.Chemical Engineering Science, 220, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2020.115634
- Panda, D., Supriya, B., Paliwal, S., Kharaghani, A., Tsotsas, E., & Surasani, V. K. (2020). Pore-scale physics of drying porous media revealed by Lattice Boltzmann simulations. Drying Technology, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2020.1850469
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S. Bhaskaran, T. Miličić, V.K. Surasani, E. Tsotsas, T. Vidakovic-Koch, N. Vorhauer-Huget, A New Design of a Microfluidic Experimental Cell for the Study of Two-Phase Flow inside a PEM Water Electrolyzer, ECS Meet. Abstr. MA2022-02 (2022) 1641. https://doi.org/10.1149/MA2022-02441641mtgabs.
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S. Bhaskaran, D. Pandey, D. Panda, S. Paliwal, N. Vorhauer, E. Tsotsas, V.K. Surasani, Study on film effects during isothermal drying of square capillary tube using Lattice Boltzmann method, Dry. Technol. 40 (2022) 735–747. https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2021.1898417.
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S. Bhaskaran, D. Pandey, V.K. Surasani, E. Tsotsas, T. Vidakovic-Koch, N. Vorhauer-Huget, LBM studies at pore scale for graded anodic porous transport layer (PTL) of PEM water electrolyzer, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 47 (2022) 31551–31565. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.07.079.
- S. Paliwal, D. Panda, S. Bhaskaran, N. Vorhauer-Huget, E. Tsotsas, V.K. Surasani, Lattice Boltzmann method to study the water-oxygen distributions in porous transport layer (PTL) of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 46 (2021) 22747–22762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.04.112.