Semester Projects

As part of MAKE!  and given our close collaboration with the EPFL LAS, LFIM and LMS labs, we usually have a few projects available each semester. If you’re interested in any of them, feel free to contact us, we will gladly tell you more!

LFIM (Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials)

  • Designing and synthesizing new materials (e.g. MOFs, zeolites, laminates) for carbon capture

  • Exploring adsorbent heating and regeneration methods (e.g. heating of adsorbent cylinders)

  • Process design and modeling for direct air capture

  • Techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) of capture technologies

LAS (Laboratory of Advanced Separations)

  • Improving the performance of graphene membranes for carbon capture

  • Designing and assembling a point-source capture system (flue gas extraction, heat exchangers, condensers, and blowers)

  • Developing user-friendly software interfaces to monitor and control carbon capture demonstrators

LMS (Laboratoire de Mécanique des Sols)

  • Designing and maintaining a website to communicate project results

  • Simulation studies at the metric scale to model CO₂ injection and storage

  • Laboratory experiments to study CO₂ interactions with geological materials

  • Informatics projects for data management, analysis, or visualization