Profile

My scientific focus is the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of CO₂ capture and conversion processes. Carbon capture will form a vital part of our route to net-zero greenhouse gas emmissions. The hydrodynamics, mass transfer, heat transfer, and chemical phenomena which lie at the heart of carbon capture and conversion processes are often ill-understood due to their complex and coupled nature. I use numerical models and detailed experiments to understand these fundamentals, and apply this knowledge to develop, scale up and improve carbon capture processes.

Publications

Journal articles

• K.A. Buist and T.M.J. Nijssen
  Magnetic Particle Tracking: a semi-algebraic solution
  Chemical Engineering Science, vol 265, 2023
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2022.118212

• T.M.J. Nijssen, M. Ottens and J.T. Padding
  A note on the modelling of lubrication forces in unresolved simulations
  Powder Technology, vol 413, 2023
  DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2022.118017

• T.M.J. Nijssen, J.A.M. Kuipers, J. van der Stel, A.T. Adema and K.A. Buist
  Large-scale VOF/CFD-DEM simulation of blast furnace hearth dynamics
  ISIJ International, vol. 62-4, 2022
  DOI: 10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2021-521

• T.M.J. Nijssen, I. Hoeks, V. Manjunath, J.A.M. Kuipers, J. van der Stel, A.T. Adema and K.A. Buist
  Experiments and simulations on a cold-flow blast furnace hearth model
  Chemical Engineering Science: X, vol. 13, 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cesx.2022.100120

• T.M.J. Nijssen, M.A.H. Van Dijk, J.A.M. Kuipers, J. van der Stel, A.T. Adema, and K.A. Buist
  Experiments on floating bed rotating drums using magnetic particle tracking
  AIChE Journal, e17627, 2022
  DOI: 10.1002/aic.17627

• T.M.J. Nijssen, O.J.I. Kramer, P.J. de Moel, J. Rahman, J.P. Kroon, P. Berhanu, E.S. Boek, K.A. Buist, J.P. van der Hoek, J.T. Padding, and J.A.M. Kuipers
  Experimental and numerical insights into heterogeneous liquid-solid behaviour in drinking water softening reactors
  Chemical Engineering Science: X, vol. 11, 2021
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cesx.2021.100100

• T.M.J. Nijssen, J.A.M. Kuipers, J. van der Stel, A.T. Adema, and K.A. Buist
  Complete liquid-solid momentum coupling for unresolved CFD-DEM simulations
  International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 132, 2020
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2020.103425

• V.V. Mahajan, T.M.J. Nijssen, J.A.M. Kuipers, and J.T. Padding
  Non-spherical particles in a pseudo-2D fluidized bed: Modelling study
  Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 192, 2018
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2018.08.041

• V.V. Mahajan, T.M.J. Nijssen, K.A. Buist, J.A.M. Kuipers, and J.T. Padding
  Non-spherical particles in a pseudo-2D fluidized bed: Experimental study
  AIChE Journal, vol. 64, no. 12, 2018
  DOI: 10.1002/aic.16078

• L.F. Zubeir, T.M.J. Nijssen, T. Spyriouni, J. Meuldijk, J.R. Hill, and M.C. Kroon
  Carbon Dioxide Solubilities and Diffusivities in 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Tricyanomethanide Ionic Liquids: An Experimental and Modeling Study
  Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, vol. 61, no. 12, 2016
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jced.6b00657

PhD thesis

• T.M.J. Nijssen
  Dynamic behaviour of liquid-solid systems: Modelling and experiments applied to the blast furnace hearth
  Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), November 2021
  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28510.72001

Data sets

• T.M.J. Nijssen, M.A.H. Van Dijk, J.A.M. Kuipers, J. van der Stel, A.T. Adema, and K.A. Buist
  Data underlying the publication: Experiments on floating bed rotating drums using magnetic particle tracking
  4TU.ResearchData, February 2021
  DOI: 10.4121/13721104.v1

• O.J.I. Kramer, C. van Schaik and T.M.J. Nijssen
  Videos - Fluidisation of calcite-pellets 0.8-0.9mm and 1.4-1.7 mm in water for various flow rates
  4TU.ResearchData, January 2021
  DOI: 10.4121/13277246.v3

• O.J.I. Kramer and T.M.J. Nijssen
  Videos – CFD-DEM simulations: fluidisation of calcite-pellets in water
  4TU.ResearchData, January 2021
  DOI: 10.4121/uuid:41556e6c-b599-42cd-9f1d-bcf01dbe8576

Open-source code contributions

• T.M.J. Nijssen, M. Ottens and J.T. Padding
  Script companion to: A note on the modelling of lubrication forces in unresolved simulations
  4TU.ResearchData, March 2022
  DOI: 10.4121/19329365.v2
  Github: github.com/tmjnijssen/lubrication-force-model

• Department of Particulate Flow Modelling, JKU, Linz
  CFDEMCoupling-PFM
  Github: github.com/ParticulateFlow/CFDEMcoupling-PFM

• Department of Particulate Flow Modelling, JKU, Linz
  LIGGGHTS-PFM
  Github: github.com/ParticulateFlow/LIGGGHTS-PFM