Entry | Comments | Organisation Site | SOFC | Edit |
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| 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 |  |
| Imperial College London, Dept of Materials | The dept researches oxygen diffusion and exchange in SOFC materials, electrical and microstructural characterisation, mechanical properties, computer simulation, fuel cell testing and partial oxidation studies, oxygen ion and proton conducting systems, and structural aspects of new materials development.
| Department of Materials | Yes | |
| Imperial College, Dept Mechanical Engineering | System analyses of hybrid gas turbine/solid oxide fuel cells for enhanced energy usage and sustainability, and detailed fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer in solid oxide fuel cells.
| Dept Mechanical Engineering | Yes | |
| Keele Univ, Centre for Clean Technology | The Centre has expertise in fuel processing and internal reforming in SOFCs, development of new anodes for internally reforming SOFCs, Carbon deposition (coking) on active components in fuel cells, Sulphur tolerance of active materials in SOFCs, pollutant tolerances, SOFCs running on natural gas, propane/butane, higher hydrocarbons (fuel diversity), SOFCs running on biogas and biomass, fuel cell testing and evaluation, intermediate temperature SOFCs, & partial oxidation and direct hydrocarbon oxidation in SOFCs.
| Chemistry Dept | Yes | |
| Loughborough Univ, Institute of Polymer Technology & Materials | IPTME has two activities in the solid oxide fuel cell area; the Polymer Research Group focuses on the production of thin ceramic membranes from ceramic-filled polymer compounds, and the Ceramics Research Group is developing nanoinks for the screen printing of nanostructured patterns on zirconia substrates.
| Report on thin ceramic membranes. | 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 | |
| Umist, Dept of Chemical Engineering | The dept has activities and expertise in oxidation catalysis and electrocatalysis in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), hydrogen storage and liquid organic hydrides as hydrogen storage media, integration of hydrogen storage systems with SOFC systems, and alternative SOFC electrolyte materials and fabrication processes.
| Dept of Chemical Eng. | Yes | |
| Univ of Bath, Dept Engineering & Applied Science | The dept has expertise in ceramic components of the fuel cell, and the development of materials for electrolytes and electrodes.
| Materials Research Centre | 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 Dundee, Div Physical & Inorganic Chemistry | The dept has research interests in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Solid State Electrochemistry; ceramic oxygen ion, proton and electronic conductors; structure and composition of materials for SOFCs down to the atomic scale; catalytic electrodes; Impedance Spectroscopy; and High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM).
| Div Physical & Inorganic Chemistry | 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 Sheffield, Dept Engineering Materials | Current interest is in oxide ion solid electrolytes including Rare-earth Apatites, cubic and mixed hexagonal/cubic close-packed Perovskites and Bismuth-based fluorites. The group aims to optimise the properties of known electroceramics via control of the composition, defect chemistry and ceramic microstructure and to discover new materials via explorative phase diagram studies and chemical doping studies, defect chemistry, crystallography (X-ray, Neutron and Electron Diffraction), analytical electron microscopy (eg SEM/TEM with EDX, EPMA, EELS and PEELS) and electrical characterisation by Impedance Spectroscopy.
| Dept Engineering Materials | Yes | |
| Univ of St Andrews, School of Chemistry | The school's interest is in high temperature fuel cells, primarily solid oxide fuel cells, including basic material studies for fuel cell electrolyte and electrode materials, new fuel concepts, electrodes with better redox tolerance and higher hydrocarbon systems. We focus on the stability, durability and efficiency of ceramic fuel cells and in proton conducting oxides, intermediate temperature and alternative fuel cells, fuel production for high temperature fuel cells, and other chemical fuels such as ammonia.
| School of Chemistry Research | Yes | |
| Univ of Strathclyde, Centre for Economic Renewable Power Delivery | Core activities include development of fuel cell systems for electric vehicles (via the Scottish Fuel Cell Consortium), a demonstration project on the island of Islay, a similar study producing 'organic' electricity from local waste streams on Mull, CERPD has a dedicated fuel cell laboratory capable of testing systems up to 15kWe, including CHP mode of operation. Also an associated electric vehicle laboratory allows ongoing testing and study of vehicular fuel cell systems.
| Centre for Economic Renewable Power Delivery | Yes | |
| Univ of Surrey, Chemistry Division | Research activities are focussed on combined experimental and computer modelling of materials for use in solid oxide fuel cells, synthesis and characterisation of new electrolyte (oxide ion and proton conducting) and electrode materials, and structural (X-ray and neutron diffraction) and computer modelling studies.
| UniS Materials Institute | Yes | |