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Misha Monder
Misha Monder is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queens-RMC Fuel Cell Research
Centre in Kingston, ON, and is working on first principles modelling of
SOFC anode poisoning. Misha did his B.E. in chemical engineering from Panjab University in India. His graduate studies, MSc and PhD, were completed at the University of Alberta. His PhD dissertation was titled "Modelling studies for Hydrogen Sulphide fuelled SOFCs." He is currently teaching a second year core chemical engineering course on Process Dynamics and Numerical Methods at Queen's University.
His research involves developing detailed micro-kinetic models to describe the chemistry of poisoning of Ni based SOFC anodes by sour natural gas. Once these models are ready, they will be linked with continuum scale transport-reaction models that describe all the physical and (electro) chemical processes in a working SOFC. The complete models will be compared against the extensive experimental data on the sulfur poisoning of Ni SOFCs in the research literature.
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Ben Kenney
I am working on understanding and improving the performance of solid oxide fuel cell cathodes. Using a combination of experiments and mathematical modeling, I am interested in finding out what limits the SOFC cathode performance. Using this information, we can then improve the cathode by tailoring the micro-structural features of the cathode for maximum performance or/and by using different cathode materials. The overall goal is to engineer efficient cathodes for low temperature solid oxide fuel cell operation and reduce the cost of the solid oxide fuel cell system.
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