The ESDL group have continued their tradition of camping over the weekend, this time in the Crowsnest Pass on the outskirts of Blairmore. The area is right next to several beautiful hikes and lakes, as well as an hour away from the Waterton Lakes National Park.

ESDLab congratulates Himanshi Dhawan who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Development of Iridium Oxide Catalysts for Acidic Water Electrolysis”.

ESDLab congratulates Fei Wei who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Characterization of Water Transport and Liquid Water Accumulation in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”.

Fei and Aslan gave talks at the 2022 World Fuel Cell Conference at the University of California, Irvine. They visited the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI and learned about the ongoing projects ranging from single-cell characterization to automotive applications and system-level grid integration. Fei won the Best Student Presentation Award for his talk, and Aslan was nominated for the Best Overall Presentation Award.

ESDLab congratulates Vaishnavi Kale who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Optimal design of energy storage flywheel rotors”.

Marc Secanell, the principal investigator at ESDLab, receives the 2022 Faculty of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award. The award recognizes excellence in graduate teaching and supervision of graduate students. Congratulations!

ESDL members spent a weekend camping in the Banff National Park. A couple of hikes in the scenic parts of Banff and a rewarding campfire feast dinner left everyone feeling relaxed and energized for weeks to come.

ESDLab congratulates Jiafei Liu, who successfully finished her PhD candidacy exam on August 4, 2022. Jiafei is a doctoral student working on ‘Understanding Performance Limitations in Alkaline Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells’.

Ambuj Punia and Andrei Volkov attended the 39th International Symposium on Combustion from 24 to 29th July 2022 in Vancouver. Ambuj presented his work “Reduced gas-phase chemistry for methane pyrolysis”. Andrei’s topic was “Methane thermal decomposition: Numerical study of flow reactors”.

Aslan, Michael and Jiafei attended the Gordon Research Seminar (23 to 24th July 2022) and Gordon Research conference (24 to 29th July 2022) in Smithfield, RI. Aslan received the best presentation award at the Fuel Cell GRS and the first prize for his poster at the Fuel Cell GRC. Fei could not attend the conference, hence Jiafei presented Fei’s poster (middle picture). The person on the right in the third picture is Sadia Kabir, Staff Scientist at Twelve.

ESDLab congratulates Manas Mandal who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Understanding the physical phenomena limiting the inkjet printed PEM water electrolyzer performance”.

ESDLab congratulates Scott Storbakken who successfully defended his MSc thesis “Fabrication and Testing of Inkjet Printed Electrodes for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis”.

ESDLab congratulates Aslan Kosakian who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Transient numerical modeling of proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells”.

ESDLab congratulates Michael Moore with the feature interview in Future energy systems website. Michael talked about his work on Storing energy in hydrogen.

ESDLab congratulates Prashanth Karupothula who successfully defended his MSc thesis “Fluid flow and thermal analysis in induced draft cooling towers”.

ESDLab congratulates Ambuj Punia, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on September 1, 2020. Ambuj is a doctoral student working on ‘Numerical modeling of thermal decomposition of methane to hydrogen and carbon black’.

Vaishnavi attended the ASME Power 2020 virtual conference from August 3-5, 2020 and presented a paper on “Imporving the energy capacity and cost effectiveness of flywheel rotors in grid-scale energy storage systems by varying their shape, speed and size”. The presentation won the third prize in the best paper category. Congratulations!

ESDLab congratulates Fei Wei, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on May 21, 2020. Fei is a doctoral student working on ‘Understanding the Role of Porous Media Micro-structure in Mass Management in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells’.

Marc Secanell, the principal investigator at ESDLab, was awarded the Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, which recognizes the top undergraduate instructor in each department for the preceding year. Congratulations!

ESDLab congratulates Michael Moore, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on May 11, 2020. Michael is a doctoral student working on the numerical modeling of proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis.

Jasper Eitzen and Andrey Volkov joined the ESDLab on 1st May 2020. Welcome to the team!

ESDLab congratulates Seongyeop Jung who successfully defended his MSc thesis “Estimation of relative transport properties for fuel cell and electrolyzer transport layers by pore network and continuum based direct simulations”.

ESDLab congratulates Lisa Clare who successfully defended her MSc thesis “The design of an experimental model for the 3D characterization of airflow in counterflow cooling towers”.

ESDL members spent a weekend canoeing in the North Saskatchewan River. A 32-km long trip from Devon to Edmonton in the scenic parts of North Saskatchewan River spotting wildlife, and taking in Edmonton’s beautiful skyline left everyone feeling rejuvenated for weeks to come.

ESDLab congratulates Vaishnavi Kale, who successfully finished her PhD candidacy exam on August 27, 2019. Vaishnavi is a doctoral student working on the optimal design of flywheel rotors used for short duration grid energy storage.

ESDL members spent a weekend camping in the Kootenay National Park. A 10.9-km stanley glacier hike in the scenic parts of Kootenay and a rewarding campfire feast dinner followed by another hike in Dog lake trail on the next day left everyone feeling relaxed and energized for weeks to come.

As a part of the ongoing collaboration between International Cooling Tower, Inc. (ICT) and the University of Alberta, an ICT - UAlberta NSERC CRD meeting was held on July 4, 2019.

Discussion included recent developments in CoolIT (a python code for the analysis of cooling towers), a model for plume analysis under wind conditions, the experimental facilities from the ESDLab, and the experimental validation of the CFD model in OpenFCST.

ESDLab congratulates Mayank Sabharwal who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Microstructural and performance analysis of fuel cell electrodes”.

Dr. Iryna Zenyuk from the University of California, Irvine visited the ESDLab and gave a seminar “Understanding polymer electrolyte fuel cells with X-ray computed tomography”.

Michael Moore and Manas Mandal attended the Future Energy Systems Research Symposium. Michael presented his work “A numerical study on hydrogen crossover in polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis”. Manas’s topic was “Improving the performance of PEM electrolyzers using pore formers”.

ESDLab congratulates Hao Xu who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis “Experimental measurement of mass transport parameters of gas diffusion layer and catalyst layer in PEM fuel cell.”

Elena Ezquerra attended the University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE) International Poster Symposium. She presented her work on the fabrication and testing of PEM fuel cells.

Dr. Ramon Costa from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya visited the ESDLab and gave a seminar on modeling, control, and energy management of PEM fuel cell systems.

Marc Secanell, the principal investigator at ESDLab, was awarded the Mechanical Engineering Club’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Congratulations!

On December 7, 2018 ESDLab members went out for a dinner at a local Italian restaurant. Memories of that evening will warm us up during these cold winter days!

Alex attended the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) in Atlanta, GA, USA. Alex presented his work “A new implicit finite element model for the analysis of droplet dynamics”.

ESDLab congratulates Luis Padilla Urbina, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on November 20, 2018. Luis is a doctoral student working on the fabrication, testing, and design optimization of low Pt loading unitized regenerative fuel cells.

As a part of the ongoing collaboration between International Cooling Tower, Inc. (ICT) and University of Alberta, an ICT - UAlberta NSERC CRD meeting was held on November 14, 2018.

Discussion included the implementation of CoolIT (a Python code for the analysis of cooling towers), a model for plume analysis, the experimental facilities from the ESDLab, and the current CFD capabilities of OpenFCST in terms of mass and thermal transport.

Mayank and Aslan gave talks at the Americas International Meeting on Electrochemistry and Solid State Science (AiMES) 2018, a joint conference of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) and Congresso de la Sociedad Mexicana de Electroquimica (SMEQ) in Cancun, Mexico. Mayank presented his work “Microstructural Analysis of Electrode Performance in Fuel Cells at Varying Water Contents”. Aslan’s topic was “An Open-Source Multiscale Transient Model for Numerical Characterization of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”.

ESDLab congratulates James Kracher who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis “Experimental analysis of transient water fluxes in PEM fuel cells.”

Mayank and Aslan took part in the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2018 in Smithfield, RI. Mayank had an oral presentation in GRS and a poster presentation in GRS/GRC. The topic of his presentation was “Impact of local saturation on gas transport and performance of fuel cell electrodes”. Aslan was a discussion leader in GRS and had a poster presentation in GRS/GRC. His topic was “An Open-Source Multiscale Dynamic Model for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”. Marc Secanell was a vice chair for this year’s GRC.

ESDL members spent a weekend camping in the Jasper National Park. A 19-km hike in the scenic parts of Jasper and a rewarding campfire feast dinner followed by another hike in Maligne canyon on the next day left everyone feeling relaxed and energized for weeks to come.

As a part of the ongoing collaboration between International Cooling Tower, Inc. (ICT) and University of Alberta, an ICT - UAlberta NSERC CRD meeting was held on May 18, 2018.

ESDLab congratulates Jie Zhou who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Analysis of Multiphase Flow in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Using a Mixed Wettability Pore-size Distribution Model.”

The first photo shows Jie Zhou about to start his PhD defense presentation.

Yu Morimoto and Masao Shibata of Toyota Central R&D Labs (Japan) visited ESDLab on May 11, 2018. Fuel Cells R&D Director and his colleague presented the current status of the fuel cell technology development at Toyota and gave an internal perspective on the company’s commercially available fuel cell car Toyota Mirai. In the atmosphere of mutual knowledge exchange, ESDL members also shared the recent results in their fuel cell and electrolyzer research and gave a tour of the lab for the guests from Toyota.

The first photo shows Dr. Morimoto of Toyota Central R&D Labs is giving a presentation to ESDL members.

Mia Thomas, a Dean Research Award student working with PhD student Vaishnavi Kale and with Dr. Secanell, receives a Dean Research Award Honorable Mention for “Outstanding Research Performance." Congratulations!

The first photo shows the finite element mesh used in a flywheel simulation.

The second photo shows the results of a flywheel simulation.

ESDLab congratulates Michael Moore, who received the Best Poster Award at the Future Energy Systems 2018 Research Symposium at the University of Alberta.

The photo shows Michael Moore with Associate Vice President of Research and FES director Dr. Larry Kostiuk (left) and Vice-President of Research Dr. Walter Dixon (right).

ESDLab congratulates Aslan Kosakian, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on January 25, 2018. Aslan is a doctoral student working on the numerical modeling of transient phenomena in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.

ESDLab congratulates Mayank Sabharwal who received one of three Len Bolger Memorial Scholarships in the Energy Research Excellence for the 2017 Alberta Innovates Graduate Scholarships Competition.

ESDLab congratulates Mayank Sabharwal who received the Alberta Innovates - Graduate Student Scholarship.

On October 4-5, 2017, ESDL held the first Johnson Matthey-UAlberta workshop. MEA simulations in OpenFCST were discussed, as well as micro and macro-scale modeling of single and two-phase flows, water management and future work on kinetics modeling. The workshop was accompanied by a lab tour covering all experimental facilities available at ESDLab and also a visit to the nanoFab at the UofA.

The first photo shows the first JM-UofA workshop participants (left to right): Ed Wright (Johnson Matthey, UK), Jonathan Sharman (Johnson Matthey, UK), Marc Secanell (ESDL, UofA). Not in the photo: Jie Zhou (UofA), Mayank Sabharwal (UofA), Alex Jarauta (UofA), James Kracher (UofA), Michael Moore (UofA).

On September 28, 2017, Prof. Stefano Passerini, from the Helmlholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), Germany, gave a seminar at the UofA. His research activities are focused on electrochemical energy storage in batteries and supercapacitors.

ESDLab congratulates Mayank Sabharwal, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on September 19, 2017. Mayank is a doctoral student working on microstructural and performance analysis of fuel cell electrodes.

ESDLab members went on a canoe trip from Devon to Edmonton. Who knows, maybe this will become an annual activity?

On July 20-21, 2017, Peter Wagner, from Next Energy/DLR, Germany, visited the ESDL. His research activities include alkaline and low/high temperature PEM fuel cells.

ESDLab members have attended the 231st ECS meeting in New Orleans, LA, on May 28 - June 1, 2017.

The first photo shows, from left to right: Alex Jarauta (ESDL, UofA), Mayank Sabharwal (ESDL, UofA), Marc Secanell (ESDL, UofA), Andreas Putz (AFCC), Jie Zhou (ESDL, UofA), Shantanu Shukla (ESDL, UofA & AFCC).

The second photo is in front of the Saint Louis cathedral, New Orleans, and from left to right: Alex Jarauta (ESDL, UofA), Marc Secanell (ESDL, UofA), Felix Büchi (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland), Shawn Litster (Carnegie Mellon University, PA), Jie Zhou (ESDL, UofA).

ESDLab congratulates Dr. Shantanu Shukla, who received the 2017 spring travel award from the Postdoctoral Fellows Association (PDFA) of the University of Alberta for attending the 231st ECS meeting in New Orleans, LA.

ESDLab congratulates Jie Zhou, who successfully finished his PhD candidacy exam on April 13, 2017. Jie is a doctoral student working on a multiphase, mixed wettability pore size distribution model for PEM fuel cells.

Marc Secanell co-chaired the CaRPE-FC Joint Electrocatalysis-Modelling Workshop, where he reviewed the current state of the experimental and modeling research in the area of PEM fuel cells at ESDLab. Jie Zhou and Alex Jarauta joined him in the trip to Vancouver, presenting their work in the analysis of the role of MPL through two-phase simulations and in the numerical study of water droplet dynamics in fuel cell channels.

The first photo shows the ESDLab-AFCC group at the CaRPE-FC Joint Electrocatalysis-Modelling Workshop (front to back, left to right): Alex Jarauta (UofA), Jie Zhou (UofA), Shantanu Shukla (UofA and AFCC), Darija Susac (AFCC), Arash Ashtiani (AFCC), Andreas Putz (AFCC), and Marc Secanell (UofA). March 16, 2017.

The second photo shows the group after the first day of the CaRPE-FC Joint Electrocatalysis-Modelling Workshop (left to right): Prof. Jon Pharoah (Queen’s University), Prof. Marc Secanell (UofA), Dr. Alex Jarauta (UofA), Jie Zhou (UofA), Dr. Darija Susac (AFCC), Aslan Kosakian (UofA and AFCC), and Dr. Shantanu Shukla (UofA and AFCC). March 16, 2017.

In March 2017, ESDLab members Jie Zhou and Alex Jarauta visited Vancouver to attend the CaRPE-FC Joint Electrocatalysis-Modelling Workshop. They did not miss a chance to reunite with ESDLab alumnus Kailyn Domican (now with Ballard Power Systems) and two ESDLab members, Shantanu Shukla and Aslan Kosakian, who are currently working at the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corporation (AFCC) in Burnaby.

The photo shows the ESDLab reunion in Vancouver, BC (left to right): Jie Zhou (UofA), Kailyn Domican (Ballard), Aslan Kosakian (UofA and AFCC), Shantanu Shukla (UofA and AFCC), and Alex Jarauta (UofA). March 15, 2017

Friday 9, 2016 was a day when everybody had a chance to relax and share a nice dinner at a local restaurant. At ESDLab, we are all not just research colleagues, but also friends. Memories of that evening will warm us up during these cold winter days!

Fraunhofer UMSICHT representatives visited the ESDLab in order to start a collaborative project in bipolar plate characterization and in-situ testing. The new, flexible plates would enable rapid prototyping of fuel cell bipolar plates at ESDLab.

A poster co-authored by ESDL postdoctoral fellow Shantanu Shukla won the “most interesting work” prize at the 1st Annual Innovation Project Fair at AFCC, Vancouver. The poster “Development of next generation catalyst layer” presented the research conducted by Dr. Shukla in collaboration with Madhu Saha, Michael Paul, Mickey Tam, Jasna Jankovic, and Juergen Stumper. We wish them success in their future work.

The photo shows Shantanu Shukla with a different poster co-authored by Madhu Saha, Mickey Tam, Viatcheslav Berejnov, and Juergen Stumper.

Professors Marc Secanell and Pierre Mertiny have recently published a paper on how flywheels can save energy for the light rail transit. In their study, they concluded that the application of this technology to the Edmonton LRT can lead to 31 % energy and 11 % cost savings. The article quickly gained interest in the community and was featured in ScienceDaily, Metro, Phys.org, Design Engineering, University of Alberta news, and other resources.

On August 22-25, 2016, ESDL held the first OpenFCST workshop. Detailed information on the framework structure was followed by several hands-on tutorials, during which the guests learned how to generate computational grids, set up and run numerical simulations with OpenFCST, and visualize the results. The workshop was accompanied by a lab tour covering all experimental facilities available at ESDL.

The first photo shows the first OpenFCST workshop participants (left to right, front to back): Alex Jarauta (ESDL, UofA), Marc Secanell (ESDL, UofA), Jeff Gostick (McGill), Udit Shrivastava (UCalgary), Andreas Putz (Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation), Jie Zhou (ESDL, UofA), Mayank Sabharwal (ESDL, UofA), Amin Nouri, (UBC), Alireza Akhgar (UVic), Aslan Kosakian (ESDL, UofA), Ed Wright (Johnson Matthey, UK). Not in the photo: Richard Wong (Ballard Power Systems), Peter Minev (UofA).

ESDLab members congratulate Dr. Secanell who was elected as a vice-chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Fuel Cells for 2018 and chair of 2020 conference together with Dr. Shanna Knights (Ballard Power Systems).

On August 5, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta held a seminar at which Dr. Secanell presented recent results and developments achieved at ESDLab in the area of “Multi-scale numerical analysis of transport in fuel cells”. A number of topics was covered, including fabrication of fuel cell electrodes via inkjet printing, image processing and material reconstruction, multiphase flow models for fuel cells, and application of numerical models for understanding ex-situ experiments.

Dr. Secanell was invited to present the ESDLab work on micro-structural, macro-structural, and channel two-phase flow models at the Gordon Research Conference 2016.

The first open-source Fuel Cell Simulation Toolbox (OpenFCST) User and Developer’s Workshop will take place on August 22-25 in Edmonton, AB.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Dr. Marc Secanell.

You can download the agenda of the workshop.

Marc Secanell, Miles Skinner, Mayank Sabharwal, Jie Zhou, and Aslan Kosakian took part in the CSME International Congress 2016 in Kelowna, BC.

The first photo shows ESDLab members (from left to right) Miles Skinner, Mayank Sabharwal, Marc Secanell, Jie Zhou, and Aslan Kosakian at CSME International Congress in Kelowna, June 2016.

ESDLab congratulates Chad Balen who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis “A Multi-Component Mass Transport Model for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”.

ESDLab congratulates Shantanu Shukla who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Experimental analysis of inkjet printed polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes”.

Marc Secanell, Shantanu Shukla, and Aslan Kosakian took part in the 5th Annual CaRPE-FC Technical Review Meeting in Vancouver, BC.

The photo shows ESDLab members (from left to right) Shantanu Shukla, Marc Secanell, and Aslan Kosakian at 5th CaRPE-FC meeting in Vancouver, May 2016.

ESDLab congratulates Mayank Sabharwal who received the Pansy and George Strange Graduate Scholarship.

Lalit Pant has joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. He is working under supervision of Dr. Adam Weber in the Energy storage and Distributed Resources Division. ESDLab congratulates Lalit and wishes him all the best in his career.

ESDLab congratulates Lalit Pant who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Shantanu Shukla has been testing the ESDLab low platinum loading electrodes on a segmented cell at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in order to determine the current distribution in our fuel cells.

Marc Secanell delivered a plenary lecture at the 228th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, on the group’s research on experimental analysis and numerical modeling of low loading fuel cell electrodes.

ESDLab congratulates Chad for recieving Queen Elizabeth Graduate Scholarship.

ESDLab congratulates Aslan, Mayank and Jie for recieving University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship.

The ESDLab is featured in the University of Alberta website.

The ESDLab congratulates Phillip Wardlaw, Kailyn Domican, Prafful Mangal and Derek Paxman who succesfully defended their M.Sc thesis.

The ESDLab congratulates Madhur Bhaiya who succesfully defended his M.Sc thesis.

ESDLab members Shantanu Shukla and Prof. Secanell attended the 224th ECS meeting, hosted in San Francisco, CA. The team presented a conference paper.

ESDLab member Kailyn Domican attended the F-Cell Conference 2013, hosted in Stuttgart, Germany. Presenting current progress at the joint German-Canada (CaRPE-FC - GECKO) workshop. This also allowed the first visit to DLR’s facilities to discuss the requirements for DLR and ESDLab collaboration.

The Open-source Fuel Cell Simulation Toolbox’s new website is launched.

ESDLab members Kailyn Domican, Philip Wardlaw, Madhur Bhaiya and Prof. Secanell attended the 6th Hydrogen + Fuel Cells Conference 2013 (HFC2013), hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team presented three conference papers.

Madhur Bhaiya received Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award for presenting his work at the HFC2013.

Marc Secanell receives the 2013 APEGA Early Accomplishment Summit Award. For more info see following links: APEGA website and UAlberta Faculty of Engineering website

Lalit Pant receives a Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarships for his research in stochastic reconstruction of porous materials

Adam Engelbrecht receives a U of A Master’s Recruitment Scholarship to work in the ESDLab. Adam will start in September, 2013.

M. Moore and M. Secanell propose a novel multi-step oxygen reduction reaction model to study replace the commonly used Tafel and Butler-Volmer model for analyzing the ORR reaction. The proposed model is capable of reproducing the doubling of the Tafel slope observed experimentally and to predict oxide coverages. See the journal website: doi: 10.1149/2.123306jes

The ESDLab congratulates Sam, who succesfully defended her MSc thesis. Congratulations Sam!!!

The ESDLab welcomes three new members: Frederik, Patrick, and Rebecca. Good to have you here!

Michael Moore successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations Michael!

Kailyn Domican, Phil Wardlaw, Prafful Mangal, Derek Paxman, Mark Dumotier and Rito Hernandez joined the ESDLab in Sept. 2012. Welcome to the team!

ESDLab members Lalit Pant, Shantanu Shukla and Prof. Secanell attended the 10th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference 2012, hosted in San Diego, California. The team presented five conference papers.

ESDLab members Pedro Mateo, Samantha Miller and Prof. Secanell attended the 19th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012, hosted in Toronto, Canada. Prof. Secanell was one of the Session chairs, while Pedro and Samantha were both presenters (Oral presentation by Pedro, poster presentation by Samantha).

The ESDLab welcomes Valentin N. Zingan, the newest member of the team! Valentin is working on his Post-Doc, under supervision of Prof. Secanell.

The ESDLab welcomes Madhur Bhaiya, the newest member of the team!

Intrusion Porosimeter is now operational, please contact Dr. Secanell for further details.

Peter Dobson successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations Peter!

ESDLab now adds an Intrusion Porosimeter to the equipment available.

Lalit Pant successfully defended his MSc thesis.

Lalit Pant has been awarded University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship to continue in his PhD.

Samantha Miller has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship for 2011/12.

Kirstin Taufertshofer and Remi Lebrun have joined the ESDLab research group.

Five new members join the ESDL research group: Welcome Michael, Matthew, Pedro, Samantha and Shantanu.

Lalit Pant’s paper titled “Design of an Experimental Setup to Study Mass Transport in Micro-Nano Capillaries and Porous Media” is Published in ICNMM-2010 conference.

Ali M. Koupaei’s paper titled “Numerical modelling of mass transfer through micro and nano capillaries” is Published ICNMM-2010 conference.

Sian Cardy’s work on catalyst layer fabrication by inkjet printer is featured in the Faculty of Engineering website. For more information see this link.

Prof. M. Secanell has been awarded an NSERC Discovery grant to pursue research in the area of functionally-graded fuel cell electrode design and fabrication and design and optimization of fuel cell flow fields.

Prof. M. Secanell has been awarded a Small Equipment Grant Program for purchasing equipment to develop a state-of-the-art laboratory for fuel cell fabrication and testing.

Peter Dobson has been awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship to continue his research in catalyst layer design. Congratulations Peter!

Malte Krack, Pierre Mertiny and Marc Secanell’s paper in flywheel design and optimization has been selected as the paper of the month (January) by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.