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标  题: 5.11周二 学术报告 Material science and engineering of SOFC
发信站: 水木社区 (Mon May 10 07:14:18 2010), 站内

报告题目：  Materials Science and Engineering ofSolid Oxide Fuel Cells
报告人：  Nguyen Minh  
报告时间：  2010-05-11 14:30

报告地点：  热能系系馆报告厅


  Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology has received widening interest
in the past ten years.  The attractive feature of this technology is its
clean and efficient generation of electricity from a broad spectrum of practical
fuels ranging from natural gas, biofuels to diesel and coal gas.  Potential
applications for the SOFC cover portable, mobile, and stationary markets
.  Significant technical progress has been made in SOFC technology in recent
years; however, a number of issues, especially material-related issues,
need to be resolved before the technology becomes practical.  In this respect
, research and development in the material science and engineering of the
technology plays a key role.  This lecture discusses the development of
materials for the SOFC and focuses on how selected materials are tailored
and engineered to meet requirements for practical applications.



    
Dr. Nguyen Minh is an internationally well known expert on solid oxide fuel
cell (SOFC) technology and has been involved in the development of fuel
cells and related energy technologies in the last twenty years.  His research
and development experience covers a number of areas ranging from fundamentals
(electrochemistry/electrochemical engineering, reaction mechanisms), materials
(high-temperature materials, molten salts, ceramics) to processes and manufacturing
(hydrogen production, ceramic fabrication), system operation (system design
, prototype demonstration).
Until May 2007, he was Chief Scientist, General Electric (GE) Global Research
, Torrance, CA.  As the Chief Scientist, Dr. Minh was responsible for the
organization’s overall technical objectives on fuel cells, oversaw the
broad technical roadmap and R&D direction, and served as the Principal Investigator
of GE multi-million fuel cell programs and the primary technical representative
to customers and industry.  From 2001-2004, he was Manager, Fuel Cells and
led the fuel cell group at GE to develop SOFCs for commercialization.  He
was responsible for group performance and provided technical direction,
coordinated group activities, and assisted in business strategic planning
.
Before GE acquisition of Honeywell’s Fuel Cell group in 2001, Dr. Minh was
Senior Manager, Fuel Cells at Honeywell and AlliedSignal (before AlliedSignal
merged with Honeywell) leading the SOFC, proton exchange membrane (PEM)
fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen production technology R&D efforts aiming at
commercial, military, and space applications.  Before joining AlliedSignal
in 1986, he was Associate Manager, Fuel Cell Program Office and Group Leader
at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois (1980-1985) working
on molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs), batteries, and advanced electrolytic
processes.  Dr. Minh received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
.

Dr. Minh has lectured extensively on fuel cell technologies and has been
invited to give plenary lectures, seminars and presentations at numerous
international and national meetings/conferences/workshops.  He has served
on review panels for US Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National
Science Foundation and several state agencies and as a consultant to United
Nations.  He has also been a reviewer of energy related reports and documents
prepared for US National Research Council, Academy of Engineering, and Academy
of Science.

His accomplishments on SOFCs include many firsts in this area.  He was the
first to propose the anode-support cell configuration, now the standard
for planar SOFCs, first to demonstrate the use of a conventional ceramic
processing method (tape calendering or rolling) to fabricate thin electrolytes
, first to build hundred-watt-class stacks with metallic interconnects, and
published the first monograph on the technology.  Dr. Minh is the author
/coauthor of the book “Science and Technology of Ceramic Fuel Cells” as
well as 4 book chapters, 20 patents, and over 100 published technical articles
on fuel cells and related technologies.  His feature article “Ceramic Fuel
Cells” published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society (J. Am. Ceram
. Soc., 76, 1993, 563-588) is among the most cited papers in the electrochemical
technology literature (about 1500 citations to date).  Dr. Minh has received
several awards, most recently the 2007 Francis T. Bacon Medal, for his research
on SOFCs.
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