Dr. Chandima Pradeep is a Ceramic Processing Engineer working with electro ceramics for Fuel cell & Electrolysis cells, Piezoelectric transducers, solid batteries. He is currently working at Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In this episode we will talk about future of batteries and energy storage technologies. Dr. Pradeep did his Bachelors from University of Colombo (UoC), then he did a MSc in Analytical Chemistry from UOC. While in Sri Lanka, he worked at HayCarb, PLC. In year 2013 he went to Japan to pursue his PhD from Kochi University of Technology under the mentorship of Prof Kazuya Kobiro. The focus of his PhD was synthesis of metal oxide materials using supercritical fluids. After the PhD, he did his first postdoc on thin film electronics with Prof. Toshiyuki Kawaharamua. Then worked in Faculty of Technology, University of Ruhuna in 2018-19 as a senior lecturer and also as the Head of Department of Biosystems technology, before coming to Denmark to do his second postdoc in supercritical hydrothermal synthesis. From 2023 to date, he is working as a ceramic processing engineer and ceramic lab manager at DTU Energy.
Key words:
green hydrogen, Power to X, and Ceramics
00:00 Childhood motivation
02:46 Why Chemistry?
04:32 About Ceramic Engineering
06:44 What is Power to X technology?
08:43 Discovery of steam engine
10:41 Renewable Energy
14:45 Are Hydrogen cells efficient?
17:24 Carbon capture technologies
18:28 Metal organic frameworks
21:04 Will Electric cars be the future?
22:45 Using Ammonia as a fuel
26:46 What are Redox flow batteries?
36:00 What is Green Hydrogen?
37:18 Ceramic Engineering – Tape casting
48:23 Academic journey
49:54 Valuable lessons
55:26 Advice for students
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