Ulrich Ulmer

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Ulrich Ulmer

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Beruflicher Werdegang

2004 - 2011: Studium Verfahrenstechnik in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt und Chennai (Indien)

2011 - 2016: Promotion am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Institut für Nanotechnologie) und am AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

2016 - 2019: Postdoc an der University of Toronto

2019 - 2021: Entwicklungsingenieur & Projektleiter Biomethanisierung bei Electrochaea GmbH

2021 - 2022: Conceptual Engineer Wasserstofftransport bei Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH

Seit 10/2022: Professor für Wasserstoffinfrastruktur (Forschungsprofessur)

Lehrgebiete

Wasserstofftechnologie (Master Chemieingenieurwesen und Energieverfahrenstechnik)

Angewandte Wärme- und Stoffübertragung (Bachelor Verfahrenstechnik, Energieprozesstechnik)

 

Forschungsgebiete

Wasserstoffinfrastruktur:

- Erzeugung

- Speicherung

- Transport

- Nutzung

 

CO2-Umwandlung:

- Photokatalytische Prozesse

- Thermochemische Prozesse

Veröffentlichungen

Journal articles:

Lourdes Hurtado, Abhinav Mohan, Ulrich Ulmer, Reyna Natividad, Athanasios Tountas, Wei Sun, Lu Wang, Boeun Kim, Mohini Sain and Geoffrey Ozin: “Solar CO2 hydrogenation by photocatalytic foams”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 435, (2022), 134864


Meikun Xia, Chengliang Mao, Alan Gu, Athanasios Tountas, Chenyue Qiu, Thomas Wood, Young Feng Li, Ulrich Ulmer, Yangfang Xu, Camilo Viasus, Jessica Ye, Chenxi Qian, and Geoffrey Ozin: “Solar Urea – Towards a sustainable fertilizer industry”, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 61, (2022), 202110158.


Jiuli Guo, Paul N Duchesne, Lu Wang, Rui Song, Meikun Xia, Ulrich Ulmer, Wei Sun, Yuchan Dong, Joel YY Loh, Nazir P Kherani, Jimin Du, Baolin Zhu, Weiping Huang, Shoumin Zhang, Geoffrey A Ozin: “High-Performance, Scalable, and Low-Cost Copper Hydroxyapatite for Photothermal CO2 Reduction”, ACS Catalysis, 10, (2020), 13668-13681


Abhinav Mohan*, Ulrich Ulmer*,#, Lourdes Hurtado, Joel Loh, Young Feng Li, Athanasios A Tountas, Carola Krevert, Chakyu Chan, Yilei Liang, Peter Brodersen, Mohini M Sain, Geoffrey A Ozin: “Hybrid Photo- and Thermal Catalyst System for Continuous CO2 Reduction”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, (2020), 33613-33620, (*Co-first author)


Yuchan Dong, Paul Duchesne, Abhinav Mohan, Kulbir Kaur Ghuman, Paul Kant, Lourdes Hurtado, Ulrich Ulmer, Joel YY Loh, Athanasios Tountas, Lu Wang, Abdinoor Jelle, Meikun Xia, Roland Dittmeyer, Geoffrey Ozin: “Shining light on CO2: from materials discovery to photocatalyst, photoreactor and process engineering”, Chemical Society Reviews, 49, (2020), 5648-5663, Cover article


Young Feng Li, Waylon Lu, Kai Chen, Paul Duchesne, Abdinoor Jelle, Meikun Xia, Thomas E Wood, Ulrich Ulmer, Geoffrey A Ozin: “Cu Atoms on Nanowire Pd/HyWO3–x Bronzes Enhance the Solar Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, (2019), 14991-14996


Ulrich Ulmer#, Robert Morris, Alexandra Tavasoli, Thomas Dingle, Paul Duchesne, Thomas Wood and Geoffrey Ozin: “Fundamentals and applications of photocatalytic CO2 methanation”, Nature communications 10, (2019), 1-12


Lili Wan, Qixing Zhou, Xin Wang, Thomas E. Wood, Lu Wang, Paul Duchesne, Jiuli Guo, Xiaoliang Yan, Meikun Xia, Young Feng Li, Abdinoor A. Jelle, Ulrich Ulmer, Jia Jia, Tian Li, Wei Sun & Geoffrey A. Ozin: “Cu2O nanocubes with mixed oxidation-state facets for (photo)catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide”, Nature Catalysis, 2 (2019), 889-898

Athanasios A Tountas, Xinyue Peng, Alexandra Tavasoli, Paul Duchesne, Thomas Dingle, Yuchan Dong, Lourdes Hurtado, Abhinav Mohan, Wei Sun, Ulrich Ulmer, Lu Wang, Thomas Wood, Christos Maravelias, Mohini Sain, Geoffrey Ozin: “Towards solar methanol: past, present, and future”, Advanced Science, 6, (2019), 1801903, Cover article


Young Feng Li, Navid Soheilnia, Mark Greiner, Ulrich Ulmer, Yuchan Dong, Jia Jia, Geoffrey Ozin: “Pd@HyWO3-xNanowires Efficiently Catalyze the CO2 Heterogeneous Reduction Reaction with a Pronounced Light Effect”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, (2018), 5610-5615


Ulrich Ulmer#, Daria Oertel, Thomas Diemant, Christian Bonatto Minella, Roland Dittmeyer, Jürgen Behm and Maximilian Fichtner: “Performance Improvement of V-Fe-Ti-Cr-based Hydrogen Storage Materials in Impure Hydrogen Gas”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10, (2018), 1662-1671


Ulrich Ulmer#, Mila Dieterich, Alexander Pohl, Marc Linder, Roland Dittmeyer and Maximilian Fichtner: “Study of the Structural, Thermodynamic and Cyclic Effects of Vanadium and Titanium Substitution in Laves-phase AB2 Hydrogen Storage Alloys”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42, (2017), 20103-20110
Christin Wagner, Martin Cholewa, Ulrich Ulmer, Dominik Poncette, Andreas Patyk, Maximilian Fichtner, Roland Dittmeyer, Peter Pfeifer: “Konzept zur Chemischen Wärmespeicherung mit flüssigen organischen Hydriden“, Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 89, (2017), 1-6


Alexey Volodin, Chubin Wan, Roman Denys, Galina Tsirlina, Boris Tarasov, Maximilian Fichtner, Ulrich Ulmer, Dimitri Scheptyakov, Yingda Yu, C Nwakwuo, and Volodymyr Yartys: “Phase-structural Transformations in a Metal Hydride Battery Anode La1.5Nd0.5MgNi9 alloy and its Electrochemical Performance.”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41, (2016), 9954-9967


Ulrich Ulmer#, Martin Cholewa, Christian Bonatto Minella, Thomas Diemant, Roland Dittmeyer and Maximilian Fichtner: “Thermochemical Energy Storage: Reactions of organic liquids on metal hydride surfaces”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8, (2016), 13993 – 14003


Ulrich Ulmer#, Kohta Asano, Andreas Patyk, Hirotoshi Enoki, Yumiko Nakamura, Alexander Pohl, Roland Dittmeyer and Maximilian Fichtner: “Cost Reduction Possibilities of Vanadium-based Solid Solutions – Microstructural, Thermodynamic, Cyclic and Environmental Effects of Ferrovanadium Substitution”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 648, (2015), 1024 – 1030


Ulrich Ulmer#, Kohta Asano, Thomas Bergfeldt, Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula, Roland Dittmeyer, Hirotoshi Enoki, Christian Kübel, Yumiko Nakamura, Alexander Pohl and Maximilian Fichtner: „Effect of Oxygen on the Microstructure and Hydrogen Storage Properties of V–Ti–Cr–Fe Quaternary Solid Solutions”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39, (2014), 20000-20008


Ulrich Ulmer#, Jianjiang Hu, Matthias Franzreb and Maximilian Fichtner: „Preparation, Scale-up and Testing of Nanoscale, Doped Amide Systems for Hydrogen Storage”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38, (2013), 1439-1449


Noboru Taniguchi, Beatriz Caramés, Lorenza Ronfani, Ulrich Ulmer, Setsuro Komiya, Marco E. Bianchi and Martin Lotz: “Aging-related Loss of the Chromatin Protein HMGB2 in Articular Cartilage is Linked to Reduced Cellularity and Osteoarthritis“, Proceedings of the National Acadademy of Science, 106, (2009), 1181 – 1186