Author Archives: Daniel Niblett

Last week the final version of my work on developing a membraneless alkaline electrolyser was published in the chemical engineering journal (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.163444). This has been an accumulation of work completed during my time on the EPSRC Ocean Refuel project which was focused on understanding the management of bubbles in water electrolysers. Part of this workContinue reading “New Publication – Membraneless Flow Through Electrolyser”

To update those who are interested in my research and work, since March 2024 I’ve been on a travel sabbatical which will continue until September 2024. I will be travelling around the world to different destinations with my fiancé. During this time, I will not be working/paid and so I will only be finishing upContinue reading “Travel Break & PMG Update”

Good afternoon to those who have subscribed to my website! I’ve not been as active on here recently as I’ve been writing a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship proposal in the past month. I’ve also been to visit some of my collaborators (Dr Adrian Mularczyk, Dr Antoni Forner-Cuenca) in Eindhoven, visiting Dr Dieter FroningContinue reading “Research Visits & Improving The Foam Generator”

There has been significant interest in the porous microstructure generator which has increased its use from around ~100 users to approximately 800. It is difficult to keep up with the speed of requests considering this app is not part of my postdoc but could become part of fellowship applications. In the future depending on theContinue reading “PMG Upcoming Features”

Today I released the new version 1.5 of the Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG). This comes with some updated features, algorithms, exporting and increasing its duration to June 2023. Some of the key additions are the pore network model (PNM) and Lattice-Boltzmann simulator. If you are using PMG and have suggestions for features, or you canContinue reading “Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) – Version 1.5”

I’ve been continuing development of the PMG as a side project and the current version 1.4 has been released for over a month now. With over 100 downloads I’m pleased that it is getting out there and being used. With each new version, there is a time window of use, which is chosen based onContinue reading “Porous Microstructure Generator 1.4 – Bubbles and Weaves”

Last week I released the first version of the Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG). This is a free software that contains a graphical user interface (GUI) for generating computational 3D images and surfaces of porous materials. The app was written in Matlab, however, you do not need Matlab or know how to code to use theContinue reading “Porous Microstructure Generator”

This month the project I had planned and completed for my EPSRC doctoral prize fellowship was published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. It is titled “Utilization of 3D printed carbon gas diffusion layers in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319922021978 In this research, I attempted to manufacture the structures that I had beenContinue reading “3D printed carbon electrodes for fuel cells”

There are a variety of geometrical shapes that make up real porous structures (either natural or synthetic) and sometimes the distribution of the materials interacts with processes occurring inside them. If we are looking to study the effect of a certain porous structure on the processes it handles we must have a spatial representation ofContinue reading “Artificial Computational Models of Porous Structures”

I’ve recently developed a Matlab code to generate the pore scale microstructure of different porous materials to artificially generate porous media found in natural and synthetic applications. This code has been used to generate porous microstructures representing carbon paper gas diffusion layers used in fuel cells and is now being used to generate battery electrodesContinue reading “Porous Microstructure Generator”