Jakub Wlodarczyk

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

PhD candidate at the Institute of Computational Physics (ICP)

www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/icp/

Expertise and research interests

Transport Phenomena, Multiphysics Modeling, Electrochemical Energy Devices, Energy Storage, Electrochemistry, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Educational background

PhD Candidate (Maria Skłodowska-Curie ITN Early Stage Researcher) in Hydrogen-Bromine Redox Flow Batteries modeling and simulation.

2018 MSc. in Chemical Engineering for Energy and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

March-August 2018
Master Thesis project, "A 1D Model of a Hydrogen-Bromine Redox Flow Battery" at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

June-August 2017 Intern at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Working with Prof. H. Scott Fogler on a new second edition of his book "Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering".

2016 BSc. in Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Professional milestones

Modeling and Simulation of Hydrogen Bromine Redox Flow Batteries.
Flow field analyses, electrochemical cell characterization and parameterization, cell performance optimization, modeling of membrane transport processes in Hydrogen Bromine Redox Flow Batteries.

Projects

• Redox Flow Battery Campus / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Küttinger, Michael; Riasse, Raphaël; Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Fischer, Peter; Tübke, Jens,

  2022.

  Improvement of safe bromine electrolytes and their cell performance in H2/Br2 flow batteries caused by tuning the bromine complexation equilibrium.

  Journal of Power Sources.

  520(230804).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230804

• Wlodarczyk, Jakub K.; Küttinger, Michael; Friedrich, Andreas K.; Schumacher, Jürgen O.,

  2021.

  Exploring the thermodynamics of the bromine electrode in concentrated solutions for improved parametrisation of hydrogen-bromine flow battery models.

  Journal of Power Sources.

  508.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230202

• Küttinger, Michael; Brunetaud, Ruben; Włodarczyk, Jakub K.; Fischer, Peter; Tübke, Jens,

  2021.

  Cycle behaviour of hydrogen bromine redox flow battery cells with bromine complexing agents.

  Journal of Power Sources.

  495(229820).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.229820

• Küttinger, Michael; Wlodarczyk, Jakub K.; Daubner, Daniela; Fischer, Peter; Tübke, Jens,

  2021.

  High energy density electrolytes for H2/Br2 redox flow batteries, their polybromide composition and influence on battery cycling limits.

  RSC Advances.

  11(9), pp. 5218-5229.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA10721B

• Schärer, Roman Pascal; Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Schumacher, Jürgen,

  2022.

  Reactive transport in porous electrodes : from pore-scale to macroscale descriptions [poster].

  In:

  18th Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (ModVal), Hohenkammer, Germany, 14-16 March 2022.

  Stuttgart:

  DLR-Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24717

• Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Cantu, Brenda; Fischer, Peter; Küttinger, Michael; Schumacher, Jürgen,

  2019.

  An enhanced 1-D model of a hydrogen-bromine flow battery [poster].

  In:

  Krewer, Ulrike; Laue, Vincent; Redeker, Andreas, eds.,

  16th symposium on modeling and experimental validation of electrochemical energy technologies (ModVal 2019) : book of abstracts.

  ModVal 2019, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-13 March 2019.

  Technische Universität Braunschweig.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2791

• Schärer, Roman Pascal; Wlodarczyk, Jakub; Schumacher, Jürgen,

  2021.

  Towards multiscale modelling of porous electrodes : connecting the meso- to the macroscopic scale.

  In:

  AMaSiS 2021 Book of Abstracts.

  Applied Mathematics and Simulation for Semiconductors and Electrochemical Systems (AMaSiS), online, 6-9 September 2021.

  Berlin:

  Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS).

  pp. 34.

  Available from: https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/amasis2021/resources/AMaSiS2021-book_of_abstracts.pdf

• Wlodarczyk, Jakub Karol; Baltes, Norman; Friedrich, Andreas; Schumacher, Jürgen,

  2021.

  Thermodynamics and diffusional mass transport problems in concentrated electrolytes : an application in H2/Br2 redox flow battery modeling.

  In:

  MODVAL 17 : Book of Abstracts.

  17th Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (MODVAL 17), online, 20-22 April 2021.

  Sion:

  EPFL Valais/Wallis.

  pp. 31.

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