Entry | Comments | Organisation Site | PEMFC | Edit |
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| Cranfield Univ, Dept of Materials & Medical Sciences | The Department of Materials and Medical Sciences has expertise in new membranes and membrane mlectrode assemblies, new methods of fabricating MEAs and fuel cell testing. The core activity of the Fuel Cell Group is the development of novel copolymer membranes and electrode systems for fuel cells.
| Dept of Materials & Medical Science | Yes |  |
| Imperial College Centre for Ion Conducting Membranes | A wide range of activities is covered, including polymer fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, hydrogen generation, fuel processing, materials, electrocatalysts, polymer membranes, ceramic membranes, fuel cell economics, distributed energy generation, life cycle analysis, fuel cell testing, and fuel cell modelling and validation.
| Research Interests | Yes | |
| Loughborough Univ, Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | The dept maintains close links with industry and research establishments through its research and consultancy activities, and contains a custom-built Fuel Cell and Electric Vehicle Laboratory, with 4 wall-mounted stations for the supply of hydrogen, oxygen, compressed air and other gases. This facility accommodates the testing of both fuel cell stacks and fuel cell sub-systems.
| Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | Yes | |
| Qinetiq Ltd Electrochemical Power | QinetiQ has an interest in most areas of fuel cell research. It has programmes developing materials for fuel cells (PEMs, DMFCs & SOFCs), novel stack designs, systems integration, diesel processing and small-scale hydrogen generators. QinetiQ also has programmes to assess commercial fuel cells for end users such as the UK military.
| Qinetiq Energy | Yes | |
| Univ of Birmingham, Dept of Chemical Engineering | The dept of Chemical Engineering has activities in Fuel Cell Systems, fuels and fuel processing, and SOFCs.
| Dept of Chemical Engineering | Yes | |
| Univ of Birmingham, Dept of Metallurgy & Materials | The dept is active in the synthesis of novel materials for solid-state storage of hydrogen, the advanced membrane materials for hydrogen purification, and the evaluation of the interaction of hydrogen with a range of infrastructure materials required in the hydrogen supply chain (from generation to end-use).
| Applied Alloy Chemistry Group | Yes | |
| Univ of Leeds - Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics | Development of predictive capabilities for SOFC and PEMFC using innovative CFD technology. This covers all major processes occuring in fuel cell systems such as (a) chemical species transport in porous electrodes, (b) electrochemical reactions in catalytic layers, (c) heat transfer within fuel cells, and (d) potential polarisations. System performance can be numerically predicted and analysed. Collaboration with major code developers such as Fluent and CFX for development and validations of CFD models.
| Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics | Yes | |
| Univ of Leeds School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Extensive fuel cell test units, operating at 900-1200K with an output of up to 1 kW equipped with reactant humidification control for hydrogen or simulated reformatted mixtures. Experimental research on fuel cell performance and internal reforming at the anode and analysis of exhaust gas can be performed on the test rigs. Over 20 years research on hydrogen and biogas production, storage, transportation and combustion. Our expertise in biomass includes all areas of the thermal conversion, co-combustion and pre/post combustion/gasification of biomass.
| School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Yes | |
| Univ of Newcastle, Sch Chem Eng & Advanced Materials | Research is focussed upon the development of proton-conducting membrane fuel cells using gaseous and liquid fuels including hydrogen, methanol, ethanol and reformate gas, with application in transportation and propulsion, and in miniaturised, portable and static power. Present research of new fuel cell technologies involves novel electrode and catalyst fabrication techniques and structures, geometries and stack configurations.
| Sch Chemical Eng & Advanced Materials | Yes | |
| Univ of Reading, School of Chemistry | Research activities include polymer chemistry, synthesis of new ionomers, fabrication of such materials into proton transport membranes and (in collaboration with industry) membrane-electrode assemblies for air-hydrogen fuel cells, molecular simulation and diffraction-modelling of aromatic polymer structures, and hydrogen storage.
| School of Chemistry, Research Activities | Yes | |
| Univ of Southampton, Comb Centre of Excellence | Research interests are Model Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis, High Throughput Thin Film Materials Synthesis and Screening, PEM Fuel Cell (hydrogen, reformate and direct methanol), and Hydrogen Storage Materials.
| Surface Science & Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Gp | Yes | |