Professor Laura Torrente Murciano
Leader, Process Integration and Catalysis Group, University of Cambridge
Interests:
Developing novel integrated technologies for the deployment of green ammonia as a carbon free energy vector, including small-scale synthesis and decomposition.
Biography:
Laura is Leader of the Process Integration and Catalysis Group at the University of Cambridge, which researches novel catalytic routes for sustainable technologies, including the use of ammonia as a Green hydrogen vector. She is also Professor of Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, and an EPSRC Early Career Fellow.
The group is pursuing the development of: low temperature ammonia decomposition catalysts, and their integration with the existing PEM fuel cell technologies; and small-scale, absorption-enhanced single vessel ammonia production processes able to cope with the intermittencies of the renewable energy production.
Laura is a co-author of the policy brief Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store published by the Royal Society. She took her PhD in chemical Engineering at the University of Bath, and an MEng in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Email: lt416@cam.ac.uk