Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Fuel Cell Center

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/CHE/Research/FCC/

Worcester, MA
508-831-5250
chemeng@wpi.edu

The WPI Fuel Cell Center is an industry-university alliance for furthering fuel cell technology through undergraduate and graduate education and through research and development of fuel cells, fuel reformers, and related components for mobile and stationary applications.

The Center is comprised of Industrial Members and Academic Members. The Academic Members include six faculty members from WPI's Department of Chemical Engineering as well as one faculty member from each of the following WPI academic areas: Physics, Mathematics, Materials Science, and Economics. Faculty from Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering are also expected to join the Center. There currently are five graduate students and two post doctoral fellows working on fuel cells. We envision the Center eventually having ten graduate students, four post doctoral students, and fifteen to twenty undergraduate students working within it. The Center will have an annual symposium, a seminar program, and short course offerings. The research projects will be proposed by the Industrial Members, who will also have the opportunity to jointly advise students and provide industrial internships.

The Center currently performs research in modeling, development of higher temperature and CO tolerant proton-exchange membrane fuel cells, catalytic reformer design, nonpyrophoric reforming and water-gas shift catalysts, preferential CO oxidation catalysts, low temperature shift catalysts, palladium and other inorganic membranes, and molten-carbonate fuel cells.

Retrieved from Worcester Polytechnic Institute website on 1/8/2010.