Fuel Cell Research Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Fuel Cell Systems

OVERVIEW

The Queen's-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre (FCRC) is Canada's leading university-based research and development organization in partnership with industry dedicated to advancing the knowledge base for addressing the key technology challenges to the commercialisation of fuel cell applications.

RECENT AND UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

FCRC Researchers recently presented or will be presenting at the following meetings/conferences:

Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition 2009 in Palm Springs, California - November 16-19, 2009: "Calorimetric Measurements and Electrode Reactions in the PEM Fuel Cell", J.G. Pharoah, S. Burheim, S. Moller-Holst, S. Kjelstrup, was presented by J.G. Pharoah.

Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition 2009 in Palm Springs, California - November 16-19, 2009: "Design Development and Application of an Open-source Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Model", J.G. Pharoah, S.B. Beale, D. Jeon, H. Roth, H-W. Choi, D. Stolten, D. Froning, U. Reimer, S. Berns, J. Jasak, H. Ruske, was presented by J.G. Pharoah.

International Conference on Separation Processes in Varanasi, India - October 20-22, 2009 - "SOFC as a CO2 Separator for Carbon Sequestration", was presented by K. Karan.

216th ECS Meeting in Vienna 4-9 October 2009: “Effect of Microporous Layer on Impedance Response of PEM Fuel Cell fed with H2 and N2 ",D. Malevich, E. Halliop, M. S. Saha, J. Suryana, B.A. Peppley, J.G. Pharoah, K. Karan was presented by D. Malevich.

216th ECS Meeting in Vienna 4-9 October 2009: “Prepartion of Ultra-Thin Catalyst Layers by Piezo-electric Printer for PEMFCs Applications", S. Saha, D.K. Paul, D. Malevich, B.A. Peppley, K. Karan was presented by D. Malevich.

Upcoming Events

21st Symposium on Catalysis, Banff, Alberta, May 9-12, 2010

The theme for the upcoming conference is "Catalyzing a Sustainable Future". The conference will focus on Energy, Environment, and Nanotechnology. For more information, please visit www.21csc2010

18th (WHEC) World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2010 will be held in Essen, Germany from May 16th to May 21st . Please visit www.whec2010.com for more information.

The 5th International Green Energy Conference (IGEC-V) 2010 will be held from June 1-3, 2010 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This conference is organized by The International Association for Green Energy (IAGE) in cooperation with The Advanced Energy Systems Division of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME). For further information, please visit www.igec.uwaterloo.

3rd IUPAC International Conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC2010) is being held in Ottawa, Canada, August 15-18, 2010

The Call for Papers opened January 2, 2010 and will close April 8, 2010.

To learn more about the conference visit the website at www.icgc2010

Past News & Events

January 2010

CHFCA/H2Can Network Symposium - Renewable Hydrogen National Symposium

was held from January 18th and January 19th, 2010 at Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg , Manitoba.

This symposium focussed on current and emerging renewable hydrogen production technologies in Canada and neighbouring US border States. For more information on CHFCA, please visit their website at www.chfca.

December 2009

Congratulations to Ben Kenney who successfuly defended his PhD thesis and Mark Hoidas who successfully defended his MSc thesis in December. We wish them both much success in their future endeavours.

Third Annual OFCRIN Technical Review Day took place on Monday, December 7, 2009 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Davis Centre, University of Waterloo.

FCRC-NRC Fourth Annual Colloquium on Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies took place Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at the Davis Centre, University of Waterloo. Keynote speakers were Dr. Peter Berg, (UOIT) Dr. Zhongwei Chen and Dr. Mario Ioannidis (University of Waterloo), Dr. Aimy Bazylak (University of Toronto), and Dr. Matthew Stevens, CrossChasm, Waterloo.

November 2009

Dr. Jon Pharoah recently presented "Design Development and Application of an Open-source Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Model" and "Calorimetric Measurements and Electrode Reactions in the PEM Fuel Cell" at the Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition 2009 which took place in Palm Springs , California.

October 2009

Dr. Kunal Karan recently presented at the International Conference on Separation Processes which took place from October 20-22, 2009 in Varanasi, India.

Dr. Peppley was a keynote speaker at the Fourth Ibero-American Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Conference held from October 7-9 at Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The presentation provided an overview of the State of Development and Future Research Challenges in Fuel Cells. The event was the annual meeting of the Ibero-American Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network, a consortium of National Networks created in September 2005. The chair of the conference was Francisco Gracia of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Chile.

216th ECS Meeting, October 4-9, 2009, Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1902, ECS has become the leading society for solid-state and electrochemical science and technology. ECS has 8,000 scientists, engineers and students in over 70 countries worldwide that hold individual membership, as well as roughly 80 corporations and laboratories who hold corporate membership. For further information, please click on ECS.

September 2009

Dr. Kunal Karan presented

"Physics-based modeling of the impedance response of reaction-transport processes occurring in a porous SOFC cathode", at the Workshop on Applications of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy hosted by the National Research Council of Canada - Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, Vancouver, BC, on September 2, 2009.