CIMTEC 2010 (http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2010/) - 12th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies will include a Fuel Cell Symposium. Desulfurization, of course, is a major concern in fuel cell research. Here are details from the CIMTEC 2010 Website ...
GENERAL OUTLINE
CIMTEC 2010 - 12th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies - will be held in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy, on June 6 to 18, 2010. CIMTEC 2010 will consist of the 12th International Ceramics Congress (June 6-11) and of the 5th Forum on New Materials (June 13-18), each of them including a number of Symposia, Focused Sessions, and Conferences. As a major long standing event for the international materials community, CIMTEC will again gather together a large and qualified audience of materials scientists, physicists, chemists and engineers as well as experts of a wide range of the most demanding application areas of modern materials, from information technology to biological systems. CIMTEC 2010 will devote special attention to most relevant directions for materials research based on new theory and refined modeling strategies and on the ever increasing opportunities offered by the continuous remarkable progress in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Outstanding areas of the subject will be covered, from the molecular and nanoscales to large complex integrated systems. Special focus of the Forum on New Materials will be to apply the new research findings to the development of a number of sustainable energy technologies from advanced fossil fuel energy cycles including CO2 sequestration, to nuclear energy, to photovoltaic power generation.
Symposium FC
Fuel Cells: Materials and Technology Challenges
Advisory Board
Invited Lectures
Deteriorating urban air-quality, growing dependence on insecure energy sources, and global warming are forcing the re-examination of conventional energy conversion systems throughout the world. Although new combustion technologies emit far less toxic pollutants comprising hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon mono-oxide and particulates than in the past, the increasing energy demand is resulting in growing insistence to reduce pollution. At present, motor vehicles account for about one-half of the total hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxide pollution which combine to form ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog, that chokes many of the major urban centers of the world. However, the pollution level is also significantly influenced by stationary energy generation plants. This has brought in emission legislation all over the world, particularly in the light of the Kyoto Protocol, requiring the introduction of new energy conversion technologies and zero-emission vehicles. Among the various available electrochemical energy conversion systems fuel cell technology represents one of the most viable candidate solution to these drawbacks.
Fuel cells deliver energy at high efficiency by consuming electroactive chemicals that are supplied on-demand to the cell as in a conventional thermal combustion system.
The International Symposium “Fuel Cells: Materials and Technology Challenges”, through the contribution of experiences coming from several different disciplines, will focus major advances in materials science, processing and device manufacturing of the different fuel cell categories.
Original papers are solicited on all types of fuel cells. Of particular interest are recent developments of advanced fuel cell materials, novel fuel cell stack designs, emerging fuel cell technology, and optimization and breakthroughs in performance. Reviews of the state-of-the-art fuel cell performance for specific applications, including consumer devices, electric vehicles, and distributed energy systems, may also be submitted.
Contributions are invited in the following and related areas:
FC-1 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)
Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells
Direct conversion of organic fuels in solid oxide fuel cells
Mixed reactant and single chamber SOFCs
Materials issues in solid oxide fuel cells
Demonstration of SOFC plants
FC-2 Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs)
PEFC stacks for automotive application
PEFC stacks for stationary generation
Membrane and electrocatalyst degradation in PEM fuel cells
FC-3 Solid-Polymer-Electrolyte Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (SPE-DMFCs).
Electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation
Methanol tolerant cathode electrocatalysts
Non-noble metal catalysts
Methanol impermeable membranes
DMFCs for portable applications
Mixed reactant and single chamber fuel cells
FC-4 Alkaline Fuel Cells (AFCs)
Anionic membranes
Non-noble metal electrocatalyts
FC-5 Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFCs)
MCFC demonstration plants
Corrosion issues in MCFC
FC-6 State-of-the-art Application Engineering and Demonstrations
Combined heat and power (CHP)
Distributed power generation
Transport
Portable power
source: http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2010/symposium_fc.asp
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