Join your fellow students!
Meet some of the students who've been part of this exciting adventure!
Xiao
TU Delft, Material Science Engineering
For her graduation project Xiao researched the feasibility of using certain materials within the system. The scope included designing and building an experimental setup, performing experiments and data analysis.
Thijs
Haagse Hogeschool, Mechanical Engineering
During his internship Thijs built several experimental setups needed for performing experiments in the field of alkaline electrolysis. In addition he laid the groundwork for the alkaline electrolysis high pressure testing facility.
Amogh
TU Delft, Process & Energy Engineering
During his internship Amogh worked on the design of the alkaline electrolysis stack CAD. In addition he collaborated with fellow students (Instrumentmakers) and manufactured components using CNC milling.
Tonnie
Leidse Instrumentmakers School, Instrumentmaker
During her internship Tonnie was part of several teams where she could put her instrumentmaking skills to very good use. She produced numerous components on conventional milling and lathing machines.
Tuntai
Hogeschool Rotterdam, Chemical Technology
Marieke
TU Delft, Sustainable Energy Technology
David van Nunen
TU Delft, Industrial Design
Nuria
TU Delft, Process & Energy Engineering
Mitch
Haagse Hogeschool, Applied Physics
Educational institutions
Over the years we've worked with 150+ students from various educational institutions ranging from vocational to university level both from the Netherlands and abroad.
This is what you can work on!
We capture and convert CO2 into valuable products while working with talented students doing meaningful projects. Check out the video to learn more!
The micro-plant & solar methanol farms
We develop a fully automated, modular, air to methanol micro-plant which will be connected directly to a solar panel. Scale will be obtained by building solar methanol farms: methanol production facilities consisting of large numbers (40.000+) of micro-plants and solar panels. Because of the modularity solar methanols farms can easily be scaled to any size: number up through mass production.
Possible topics
ZEF combines multiple technologies into one low cost unit. These are also the topics you can work on during you internship or graduation project.
01.
Direct Air Capture
CO2 and H2O are co-captured from the air. ZEF is working on a unique concept which has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of CO2 air capture.
02.
Alkaline Electrolysis
H2O is split into H2 and O2 using an alkaline electrolysis cell. ZEF is looking into smart mass manufacturing concepts in order to reduce costs.
03.
Methanol Synthesis
CO2 and H2 are fed into a methanol synthesis reactor and react to methanol and H2O. The ZEF reactor allows for energy efficient conversion.
04.
Distillation
The mix of methanol and water needs to be separated in order to obtain pure methanol. ZEF is working on concepts for efficient distillation.
05.
Compression
One of the key support systems it the compression of H20 and CO2 to a pressure of 50 bar. ZEF currently develops solutions for this.
Meaningful projects in an inspiring environment
ZEF is located at the heart of the TU Delft campus (Process & Energy lab) and collaborates with world class experts from TU Delft, TNO and industry to reach the development targets. The ZEF student team plays an important role in reaching these targets by executing meaningful projects as part of their internship or graduation.
Join us!
Take the first step and receive personal consultation about projects that fit your background and interests.
01.
Initial contact
Every internship is different and each educational institution requires a different approach. That’s why we start with an assesment of your background to see if there could be a match. It starts with sending us some info (like your CV, starting periode, etc).
02.
Meeting(s)
After the initial assessment of the info you sent we start with the actual application stage where we plan interviews. In these interviews we discuss your application and give you additional info about ZEF and some specific assignments. If the meetings are positive we can go to the final stage.
03.
Onboarding
If it’s a match it’s time to arrange all the formalities. In this stage we make sure that you have a project description which is approved by your educational institution and we make sure that everything is ready so that you have a great start at ZEF!