The interdepartmental postgraduate programme “Hydrogen Science and Technology” of the University of Western Macedonia is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 13 December 2023, at 17:30 (local time), Dr. Ankel Hagen, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark, will give an invited lecture titled:
“SOFC – Basics, lifetime, diagnostics, applications”
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are electrochemical energy converters with high electrical and total efficiencies and high degree of flexibility regarding the usable fuel and operating regimes. The materials do not include noble elements, which decreases costs of the technology. State of the art SOFC typically contain Ni/YSZ as fuel electrode and a perovskite (like LSC, LSFC) as oxygen electrode, which are sandwiching a YSZ electrolyte. Key feature is an optimum interplay between materials (conductivity for electrons and/or oxygen ions) and structure (porosity and particle size tuning, connectivity, etc.). Areas for application of commercial SOFC are in the stationary as well as the transport sector.
The lecture will last an hour in total, questions included, and it will be held online via the Zoom platform:
- Room link: https://zoom.us/my/uowm.mpx
- Personal Meeting ID: 980 505 9940
Dr. Anke Hagen is a Professor at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage of the Technical University of Denmark. She has graduated as a chemist and as a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) from the University of Leipzig and as a Dr. techn. from the Technical University of Denmark. She acquires international research experiences from Germany, Japan, USA, and Denmark. Her main research area during the last 20 years has been related to solid oxide cells and stacks (fuel cells and electrolyzers), with focus on lifetime, electrochemical characterization, and diagnostics.
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