Tuesday, 1 November 2005: 12:30 PM-3:00 PM
208 (Cincinnati Convention Center)

Membrane-Based Separations (02d)

#214 - Fuel Cell Membranes I (02D11)
Membranes have played increasingly important roles on fuel cells. For fuel cells, membranes are involved in fuel processing in addition to proton-exchange membranes and membrane electrode assembly. In fuel processing, CO2- and H2-selective membranes can be used both in membrane reactor configuration to enhance water gas shift reaction and in the membrane permeation to purify H2, as well as O2-selective membranes can be employed for O2-enriched air production to increase (1) the H2 concentration in the reformed gas from the autothermal reforming or partial oxidation of liquid fuel (e.g., gasoline, diesel and/or jet fuel), natural gas or biomass and (2) the performance of fuel cell on the cathode side. Proton-exchange membranes and membrane electrode assembly, including cost-effective Nafion replacements particularly for 120 - 160oC, are critical to the widespread use of fuel cells. Original and review papers on membranes for fuel cell applications, including (1) fuel processing, (2) proton-exchange membranes, and (3) membrane electrode assembly, are sought. Both fundamental and application aspects are welcome. We will include the papers on fundamental understanding through theory, modeling, and controlled experiments as well as engineering, application and scale-up studies.
CoChair:Santi Kulprathipanja
Chair:W.S. Winston Ho
12:30 PM Session Introduction (3 Min)
12:33 PM214aDesign and Synthesis of Optimized Sofc Structures
Jingyu Shi, Frank M. Zalar, Henk Verweij
12:53 PM214bA Nanoporous Silicon Based Membrane Electrode Assembly for on-Chip Micro Fuel Cell Applications
Kuan-Lun Chu, Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Mark A. Shannon, Richard I. Masel
1:13 PM214cMolecular Design of Pems: Rigid Rod Liquid Crystalline Polyelectrolytes-Synthesis and Properties
Morton H. Litt, Sergio Granados-Focil
1:33 PM214dThe Effect of Temperature and Pre-Treatment on Water and Methanol Sorption and Diffusion in a Short-Side-Chain Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomer Membrane for Pemfcs
Maria Grazia De Angelis, Stuart Lodge, Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Ferruccio Doghieri, Giulio C Sarti, Aldo Sanguineti, Paolo Fossati
1:53 PM214eThe Effect of Membrane Thickness on Short- and Long-Term Performance of a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
Jeong Lee, R. Wycisk, Jun Lin, Peter N. Pintauro
2:13 PM214fNafion/Zeolite Nanocomposite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
Zhongwei Chen, Brett A. Holmberg, Wenzhen Li, Xin Wang, Yushan Yan
2:33 PM214gNew Conceptual Zeolitic Direct Methanol Micro Fuel Cell
Siu Ming Kwan, King Lun Yeung
2:53 PM Closing Remarks (7 Min)
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