Topic: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in Transport（Overseas distinguished experts program of SJTU for Academic Exchange）

Speaker: Kevin KENDALL, Fellow of Royal Society, Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

Time: 2013-9-18, 10:00 am.

Venue: F310

Inviter: Prof. Sui Sheng
 

Abstract:
The main application of fuel cells and hydrogen in the EU is transport where energy storage in the vehicle is a critical area. 
This presentation outlines the targets which have been identified for various transport sectors including fork-lifts, bicycles, buses and cars. Several key advances are identified and progress in the main areas described.
To demonstrate the success of combining these technologies, experiments are described on the Birmingham fuel cell hydrogen car fleet, and a showcase demonstration of 100 battery electric vehicles across Birmingham and Coventry in the West Midlands is analysed. A project with 100 hydrogen fuel cell cars is now being started to test their improved performance. The new infrastructure requirements are considered and cumulative progress in the EU defined. It is demonstrated that low mass vehicles are essential to give low fuel consumption.
 
Introduction of speaker:
Professor Kevin Kendall FRS has been researching hydrogen and fuel cells over the past 30 years. He was responsible for the first hydrogen filling station in England, to fuel hydrogen vehicles running on the Birmingham campus since March 2008. There are now four stations in the Midlands and there should be eight by 2012, with a prospect of hundreds of hydrogen hybrid vehicles by 2015. Support from many companies and funding agencies have made this possible, especially Microcab, RDM, EPSRC, TSB and AWM. This has been a remarkably successful project for training engineering students in the Doctoral Training Centre funded by EPSRC to create one hundred new PhDs. Prof Kendall is also known for fracture mechanics and research on adhesion. He is the author of Molecular Adhesion and its Applications published by Kluwer in 2001, and recently co-authored Adhesion of Cells, Viruses and Nanoparticles (Springer 2010) dealing with complex biological adhesion processes. 

 
More infomation: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/chemical-engineering/people/individual.aspx?ReferenceId=5802&Name=professor-kevin-kendall