Time：2015.9.21（monday）9:00
Location： Meeting room, energy building 1
Lecturer：Dr. Pang-Chieh Sui，Senior Research Engineer, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic) ,Tech Lab Manager, Energy Systems Transport Phenomena (ESTP) Lab ,University of Victoria BC, Canada
Abstract：
Low temperature hydrogen fuel cells have seen tremendous progress in the past two decades, and they are currently being deployed for practical applications such as automotive vehicles and residential combined heat and power. From a research standpoint, the transport phenomena in these fuel cells are a fascinating kaleidoscope full of many coupled processes taking place in multiple length and time scales and multiple dimensions. Understanding the principles of and the intricacies among these phenomena is the key to optimal design of these electrochemical engines.
This seminar aims to give an overview on the state-of-the-art of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) technology to multidisciplinary audiences. The talk will first cover the basic principles of the transport phenomena involved in typical PEMFC design and operation, followed by a review on some advanced experimental tools and simulation tools that have been developed recently to investigate these phenomena. Insights obtained using these tools on the interplay of these phenomena and their implications to material screening and engineering design will be discussed.
Biography:
Dr. Pang-Chieh (Jay) Sui received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Iowa in 1992 and 1997 respectively. He then worked as a Research Scientist in the National Driving Simulator as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Iowa during 1997-2003. He joined the IESVic in 2003. Dr. Sui is recipient of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Fellowship for 2015 and is currently working at NEXT ENERGY on projects of alkaline anion exchange membrane and high-temperature PEM fuel cells. Dr. Sui’s research work on Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) started in 1997 from research projects with Honda R&D Japan, followed by collaboration with industry partners including Ballard, AFCC, NRC-IFCI, Nissan and Toyota. His research topics include development and validation of simulation tools for PEMFC, multi-scale simulation methods, coupled thermo-fluids problems in fuel cell stack, characterisation and transport in porous media.
Contract: Zhigang Shao, DNL0301