Areas of Interest:

· Fuel Cell Systems

· Fuels and fuel processing

· SOFCs

Activity and Expertise:

Professor Kendall has been working on fuel cells at The University of Birmingham since 2000 when he left Keele. The group includes a Post Doc and several PhD students studying Fuel Cells, especially SOFCs and the fuels which can be used to drive them. The main work going on in Chemical Engineering has emphasis on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs). Polymer Electrolyte membranes (PEMs) are also being considered at a lower level with Prof Acres’ and Harris’s group. One project is the materials specifications for electrolyte, electrodes and interconnects. Another project is the operating condition of the SOFC, especially with direct injection of various fuels including methane, propane, butane, iso-octane, methanol, ethanol, ethers, biodiesel and biogas. Fuel processing for fuel cells involves Dr. Regina Santos and Dr. Philip Gaspar, using supercritical fluids to convert biomass into syngas. A collaboration is going on with Dr Macaskie on fuel cells operating on hydrogen from waste sugars. Dr Mark Simmons and Dr Joe Wood are collaborating with Prof Kendall on flow and catalyst issues in SOFCs.

Credentials:

Professor Kendall is a co-author of the recent book ‘High Temperature SOFCs: Fundamentals, design and applications’ S.C.Singhal and K. Kendall, Elsevier 2003. He has been active in zirconia research for 20 years and has been particularly interested in SOFC applications from his career at ICI in the 1980s and 90s. Prof Kendall runs the Fuel Cell Network (http://fuelcellnetwork.bham.ac.uk) and has been holding an annual conference since 1993. In 2004 it will be at the NEC on March 31^st. He has written around 60 papers and patents on SOFCs, especially micro tubular SOFCs with a warm up time of a few seconds. He is a member of the Grove Committee and the Fuel Cells UK steering group. Prof. Kendall is a director of Adelan Ltd, a small SOFC spin-out company.

Fuel cell and/or Hydrogen courses and modules offered:

ATP course level 2, 20 lectures on hydrogen, fuel cells and sustainable development.

Masters course to be offered in 2004-5.

Contact: Professor Kevin Kendall

Email: k.kendall@bham.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2739

Address: Department of Chemical Engineering,

University of Birmingham,

Edgbaston B15 2TT UK.

Website: www.bham.ac.uk