General Energy

Open Opportunities

Life Cycle assessment of Fuel Cell, Electrolyser and hydrogen storage technologies Paul Scherrer Institute Electrochemistry Laboratory To assess the overall contribution of the hydrogen economy components towards net zero energy economy we need to perform the life cycle impact assessment of the hydrogen-based power production systems. Environmental Engineering, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Other, Resources Engineering Master Thesis, Semester Project

Chemical composition of atmospheric aerosol particles from Greenland, the Arctic and the Alps Paul Scherrer Institute Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Global warming induces emissions changes in global ecosystems, for example changes to marine algal blooms, emerging terrestrial vegetation, increasing glacial dust or fires. At the same time human activities in the cryosphere cause emissions from traffic, domestic activities and animal herding. All these emissions change the composition of the atmosphere. As part of this project, you will have the option to analyse aerosol filter samples in the lab, collected during different (ongoing) campaigns, like the GreenFjord project's atmospheric cluster (https://greenfjord-project.ch/). The main task will be to analyse the freshly created data to understand the complex puzzle of atmospheric aerosol sources. You will use state-of-the art mass spectrometers to shed light into the chemical composition of aerosol particles. This work will be carried out at and with the team of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at PSI, Switzerland. Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) Internship, Lab Practice, Master Thesis