Supergen Fuel Cell Consortium - Fuel cells - Powering a Greener Future - CORE

燃料电池作为一种清洁、高效的发电设备，在某些应用中还能产生高品位的废热，因此继续受到相当大的关注。然而，燃料电池要在商业市场上取得更大的渗透，仍面临相当大的技术挑战。值得强调的是，Supergen燃料电池联盟正在进行的研究领域的转变。随着燃料电池技术的不断成熟，燃料电池研究界被要求越来越重视提高对材料在实际工作条件和占空比下的基本理解，特别是在失效模式和材料/电池降解方面。因此，第二阶段的工作方案将非常注重一般性和基础研究，针对在与我们的工业伙伴讨论中确定的实际问题。这意味着在第二阶段，Supergen联盟仍将把重点放在向工业转移知识上，当然，专利将在适当的地方申请。然后，在他们自己的技术计划背景下，利用这些知识在很大程度上是行业合作伙伴的责任。Supergen燃料电池联盟拟议的第二阶段更新了成员，增加了三位新的学者；库切纳克（帝国理工学院）、布雷特（伦敦大学学院）和艾略特（剑桥大学），还有四个学术团队在继续；布兰登（帝国理工），斯科特（纽卡斯尔），阿特金森（帝国理工）和欧文（圣安德鲁斯）。在第二阶段，这三家行业合作伙伴仍将留在财团中；Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems， Ceres Power和Johnson Matthey，以及第四个新的行业合作伙伴Intelligent Energy。这个新团队保持了固体氧化物燃料电池的联盟实力，同时在工业和学术团队中增加了聚合物燃料电池的额外能力。这为联盟内部提供了一个重点转移，即发展对当前燃料电池设备的失效模式和性能限制的更好理解，以及对解决这些失效模式的更大科学理解的需求。此外，联盟将继续向联盟员工和学生、联盟外部研究人员和适当的博士培训中心提供燃料电池科学和工程方面的培训课程，并传播联盟的工作（通过出版物和会议介绍，包括年度公开会议），并扩大其国际合作。

Fuel Cells continue to receive considerable attention as clean, highly efficient devices for the production of both electricity and, for some applications, high grade waste heat. However, considerable technical challenges remain for fuel cell to achieve greater penetration into commercial markets. It is worth emphasising the shift in research landscape within which the Supergen fuel cell consortium is operating. As fuel cell technology continues to mature, the fuel cell research community is being asked to place increasing emphasis on improving its fundamental understanding of materials behaviour under realistic operating conditions and duty cycles, especially where this relates to failure modes, and materials/cell degradation. Thus the work programme of this second phase will very much focus on generic and fundamental research, targeted onto real problems identified in discussion with our industry partners. This means that during this second phase, it will remain the case that the Supergen consortium will put an emphasis on knowledge transfer to industry, though of course patents will be filed where appropriate. It is then largely the responsibility of the industry partners to exploit this knowledge in the context of their own technology programmeThe proposed second phase of the Supergen fuel cell consortium refreshes the membership, with three new academics; Kucernak (Imperial), Brett (UCL) and Elliott (Cambridge) and with four academic teams continuing; Brandon (Imperial), Scott (Newcastle), Atkinson (Imperial) and Irvine (St Andrews). All three industry partners remain within the consortium for its second phase; Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems, Ceres Power and Johnson Matthey, with the addition of a fourth new industry partner, Intelligent Energy. This new team maintains the consortium strength in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, whilst adding significant extra capacity in Polymer Fuel Cells within both the industry and academic teams. This provides a shift in emphasis within the consortium to developing an improved understanding of failure modes and performance limitations within current fuel cell devices, and the need for greater scientific understanding to tackle these failure modes. In addition the consortium will continue to deliver its training courses in fuel cell science and engineering to consortium staff and students, external researchers to the consortium and to appropriate Doctoral Training Centres and to disseminate the work of the consortium (through publication and conference presentation, including an annual open conference) and to extend its international collaboration.