HomeDr. Luis Cutz is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Process & Energy, Large-Scale Energy Storage Section, TU Delft, The Netherlands. He develops thermochemical technologies to convert waste materials into chemicals, biofuels, and new raw materials that can be used for power generation, transportation fuels, horticultural applications, batteries, and the production of new polymers.
His research group develops experimental methods to study and optimize the conversion of plastic waste and biomass across different scales—from micro to macro—allowing processes to be scaled from simulation to laboratory levels.
In his talk, Dr. Cutz will discuss how hydrothermal liquefaction can transform digestate—the wet waste produced from biogas generation—into high-quality bio-oil, and how the use of machine learning can predict bio-oil composition and optimize the process without the need for physical experiments.