Master Thesis Openings

Interested students are encouraged to perform their master thesis within one of the laboratories of the ENE Division. A general list of topics can be found here.

In addition, there are master thesis openings for the following specific topics:

Risk assessment:

• Risk Assessment for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Sequestration (CCUS)

Life cycle assessment:

• Optimizing the implementation of Swiss biofuels in the energy and transport sectors
• LCA of water based transport
• LCA of Swiss transport infrastructure
• LCA of advanced vehicle power train components considering size scaling
• Costs and environmental impacts of road public transport
• Automatic classification of LCA data
• Life cycle cost and environmental impacts of seasonal thermal energy storages

Simulation/Modelling:

•  Integration of local renewable energy sources with innovative storage systems, sizing and dynamic behavior analysis

Decision support:

• Thermodynamics of energy storage reactions 

• Exploration of interacting criteria in Multicriteria Decision Analysis: The case of electricity supply resilience assessment

Gas cleaning for biomass applications:

• Removal of Trace Sulfur Compounds from Biogas for Catalytic Processes
   

Mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis:

• Combined ATR-IR/EXAFS cell for catalytic solid-liquid interfaces
   

Catalytic conversion of methane:

• Effect of zeolite framework type on the combustion of CH4 on supported Pd nanoparticles
   

Fundamentals of catalytic reforming

• Master Thesis in Combustion Fundamentals Group
   

Additional master thesis topics are defined within the generic subject areas listed under Semester Projects. Please contact the respective Principal Investigator for a detailed description of current openings.