Date, Assembly Time & Place

9 July 2018 (Monday) 18:30-20:00, HKIE 9/F- Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room

Programme Highlights:

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert chemical energy directly to electricity, with water and heat as the only byproducts. They have great potential for both stationary and transportation applications and are expected to help address the energy and environmental problems that have become prevalent in our society. Despite their great promise, they have not been widely adopted mainly due to lower than predicted efficiencies, high cost, and short lifetime. With the commercialization of Toyota’s fuel cell vehicle Mirai in 2015,  the development of fuel cells has been accelerated, especially in China. This talk will firstly introduce some fuel cell basics, and then discuss their applications, recent progresses and market analysis. 

Language:

Powerpoint and Presentation in English

Speakers

Dr. Minhua SHAO is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at HKUST. He is also the Associate Director of the HKUST Energy Institute, Director of the newly developed Sustainable Energy Engineering Undergraduate Program. He earned BS and MS degrees in chemistry from Xiamen University, and a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He joined UTC Power in 2007 working on proton exchange membrane fuel cell and phosphoric acid fuel cell. At UTC, he led the collaboration with Toyota to develop advanced fuel cell vehicle technologies. He was promoted to Technical Fellow (the highest engineering rank) and program manager. In 2013, he joined Ford Motor Company to conduct research on lithium-ion batteries for next generation electric vehicles. He then joined HKUST in 2014. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles, 1 edited book and filed over 30 US patent applications (15 issued). He has also received a number of awards, including the Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award from the ECS Energy Technology Division (2014), and Student Achievement Award from the ECS Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division (2007), President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students from Stony Brook University (2006), Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad from China Scholarship Council (2006), and Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory (2006). His current research interests include fuel cells, advanced batteries, electrocatalysis and modeling. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the Electrochemical Society.

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