Jordi Cornette

Jordi Cornette obtained his Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology (specialisation Sustainable Energy) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2016. Later on that year, he started his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as an assistant under the supervision of professor Svend Bram.

His doctoral research was focused on the measurement-technical challenges of characterizing particulate emissions from solid biomass combustion. Both small- and medium-scale biomass boilers were investigated as well as several flue gas cleaning technologies such as fabric baghouse filter, electrostatic precipitators (ESP) and flue gas condensers. The particle number size distributions of the boilers were characterized by using a Dekati Electrical Low Pressure Impactor (ELPI+) in combination with various dilution systems (such as two-stage, single-stage and full flow tunnel). Both the ELPI+ and the dilution systems were critically evaluated in his research. In addition, he developed a 1D numerical flue gas dynamics model to describe the evolution of particulate emissions (i.e. particle deposition, condensation growth and coagulation) for a wide variety of situations and applications.

He obtained his PhD degree in 2022 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in charge of the H2-HeatNet project, funded by Innoviris. This project aims at developing a planification tool for prefeasibility studies of district heating networks. In addition to the conventional heat sources (e.g. gas, biomass, waste-to-energy, etc.), the tool also integrates hydrogen-based heat generation from both a techno-economic as well as a socio-economic perspective.