Around 200 visitors to the Chemistry Day at TU Delft
18 October 2008 by M&C TNWOn Saturday 18 October TU Delft took part in the Chemistry Day (Dag van de Chemie). In the Chemistry Building, TU Delft’s developments were to be seen in fields that included solar cells, fuel cells and CO2 storage.
Sustainable Energy
TU Delft had chosen ‘Sustainable Energy’ as its theme for the Chemistry Day. After all, the university is actively involved in many fields of research to contribute to the switch to sustainable, ‘green’ energy provision.
CO2
The university had on view, amongst other things, its research into new materials for improved solar cells. Furthermore, there has recently been much interest in the trapping and storage of the greenhouse gas CO2 as a way of counteracting global warming. The TU provided more insight into this technique by means of a working demonstration. But attention was also focused on a method for reusing CO2 by transforming it into petrol.
Fuel cells
And finally, fuel cells constitute a major theme where sustainable energy is concerned. For fuel cells can convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity without formation of waste products. Cars, for example, can run on electricity so generated. Visitors to the Chemistry Day could themselves make a fuel cell and produce electricity.
40 000 visitors
This fourteenth Chemistry Day attracted around 40 000 visitors nationwide. The enthusiasm for visiting a chemical works, a hospital or laboratory was so great this time round that some participating firms even had to turn people away, to everyone’s disappointment.
The next Chemistry Day will take place in 2010.
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