- ecolefins@certh.gr
- 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, Thessaloniki, Greece
CERTH
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (CERTH) - Coordinator
CERTH is one of the largest Research Centres in Greece and among the TOP-12 EU institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. CERTH, with an average annual turnover of more than 50 m€, has important scientific and technological achievements in many areas including among others: Clean Energy, Green Hydrogen, Electrification, AI, IoT, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Circular Economy, Transportation & Sustainable Mobility, Health, Agro-biotechnology, Smart farming, and Safety & Security. CERTH has also received numerous awards and distinctions such as the European Descartes Prize, the Microsoft International Contest Prize, the Trading Agents Competition Award and many more. From CERTH, the Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) will participate in the ECOLEFINS project.
CPERI aims to develop pioneering technologies and innovative products and to pursue scientific and technological excellence in selected advanced areas of Chemical Engineering, including Clean Energy, Climate and Environment, Sustainable Industry and Bioengineering/Biomedicine, Materials Technology, Process Engineering and Simulation. In specific, CPERI’s research activities are targeting to develop and promote modern technologies for the low-carbon production, storage and capture of energy and novel technologies for natural resource management, pollution, environmental protection and health, placing CPERI as the “Low Carbon Economy Technologies Institute”.
The current project will be pursuit by the Laboratory of Process Systems Design & Implementation. LPSDI is active in a wide range of applications related to the environmental impact of energy production and use, as well as to renewable energy sources and zero-carbon fuels technologies. Subjects such as electrochemical engineering (fuel/electrolysis cells, electrochemical membrane reactors, batteries, P2X technologies), heterogeneous catalysis (H2 production, CO2 hydrogenation, NH3 and CH3OH synthesis, F-T synthesis, VOCs abatement, DeNOX), biomass thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis and gasification), surface science, materials science & engineering are at the forefront of LPSDI interests. Moreover, LPSDI has a wide background on the study and development of integrated process systems employed for energy conversion and storage and unique knowledge in system design, engineering and automation with proven expertise in digital modeling and feasibility studies.
CERTH is the coordinator of ECOLEFINS project and will be actively involved in the development of cathode materials, anode half-cells, ci-EMR electrochemical performance and stability assessment, as well as in the dissemination, communication, and exploitation outreach activities.
Prof. George Marnellos
Chemical Engineer
George Marnellos (Male, Chemical Engineer), Project Coordinator in ECOLEFINS, is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTH. His research activities are focusing in the fields of hydrocarbons processing (natural gas vaporization and production of olefins), hydrogen (iso-octane and bioethanol reforming, steam and H2S electrolysis, electrochemical membrane reactors for hydrogen generation and separation) and fuel cell (direct hydrocarbon and solid carbon high temperature ceramic fuel cells) technologies, CO2 utilization (hydrogenation to methanol and methane, electrolysis toward CO), air pollution control (NOX, VOCs, etc) and biomass to energy conversion technologies (pyrolysis and gasification of solid biomass and biochar). His scientific work has been published in 96 articles in international journals and in >150 conferences’ proceedings with more than 3100 citations (H = 31). He is a regular reviewer in relevant scientific Journals and research funding agencies. In 2010, he obtained the Fulbright research scholarship to cooperate with MIT (Prof. Yang Shao Horn, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) in the research field of fuel cells. From 2016 till 2023, he was the chairman of the Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment in Western Macedonia (CluBE) and since 2020 he is the associate editor of the “Hydrogen” journal of MDPI Editions.
Dr. Costas Athanasiou
Chemical Engineer
Dr. Costas Athanasiou (Male, Chemical Engineer), Deputy Project Coordinator in ECOLEFINS, is an Assistant Professor of DUTH. His research interests lie in the fields of electrochemical membrane reactors, high temperature fuel cells and biomass energy conversion technologies, where, in addition to their design, optimization and operation, he is an expert in the elaboration of energetic and feasibility studies. He is the author of more than 35 referred papers in high impact factor journals (Citations: > 600, h-index: 11). He has participated in relevant national and European research projects, and he is serving as regular reviewer in several scientific journals and funding agencies.
Dr. Konstantinos Christoforidis
Chemical Engineer
Dr. Konstantinos Christoforidis (Male, Environmental Engineer) is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace and since 2019 senior scientists at the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health, CNRS University of Strasbourg, France. His research activities lie mainly in the areas of heterogeneous photocatalysis and materials science with special focus on the catalytic production of H2 and the conversion of CO2 into valuable products. He is the author of 53 publications and his research work has been cited >2700 times in the scientific literature (h-index=29). He has participated as coordinator or senior researcher in several research programs (EU and national funding schemes - UK, France, Italy and Greece). He is an Editorial Board member of three international journals and has served as Guest Editor in 2 special issues in the fields of catalysis.
Dr. Angeliki Banti
Chemical Engineer
Dr. Angeliki Banti (Female, Chemical Engineer) is a post-doctoral researcher and a teaching fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2018 and Master degree in Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from Chemistry Department, AUTH in 2016. Her research interests focus on PEM Water Electrolysis, Environmental Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis. She has actively participated in 4 research projects and her scientific work has been published in 10 articles in international journals and in 9 international conference proceedings.
