Keynote Speaker I
Professor Yusheng Xue
State Grid Electric Power Research Institute (SGEPRI or NARI), China
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Bio: Professor Yusheng Xue graduated from Shandong University, China in 1963, received an MSEE degree in 1981 in Electrical Engineering from EPRI, China and a PhD degree in 1987 from the University of Liege, Belgium. He has been an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering since 1995. He is now the Honorary President of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute (SGEPRI or NARI), China, Adjunct Professor in dozens of universities in China and a conjoint professor of the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Automation of Electric Power System (in Chinese, EI indexed) and that of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (in English, SCI IF 1.532), as well as Chairman of the Technical Committee of Chinese National Committee of CIGRE from 2005 to 2012.
Professor Xue received a National Prize on Science in 1977, a National First Prize of Achievement in the Advance of Science and Technology in 1996, National Second Prizes respectively in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2012. He also received a First Prize of National Excellent Technical Book Prize in 2001, a National Prize of Golden Patent in 2006 and an Excellence Patent in 2012.
By the end of 2017, 25 Master students, 40 Ph.D students and 4 post-doctor were successfully supervised in the field of power systems or nonlinear dynamics. Other 16 Ph.D students and 1 post-doctor are being supervised. He has published 8 books and more than 604 technical papers, including 120 SCI-indexed ones and other 310 EI-indexed ones.
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Keynote Speaker Ⅱ
Professor Chung-Li Tseng
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Invited Speaker
Professor Zhefei Pan
Chongqing University, China
Speech Title: Building an Ammonia Fuel Cell with an Anion Exchange Membrane
Abstract: Ammonia as a hydrogen carrier has become more arresting recently, primarily because of its zero-carbon emission and cost-effectiveness in production, storage, and transportation. Directly feeding ammonia to fuel cells can produce electricity whenever and wherever needed. Since ammonia fuel solution itself creates an alkaline environment, an anion exchange membrane, which conducts hydroxide ions, is typically employed to build ammonia fuel cells. As a key component, the membrane plays a very important role in the ion conduction and electrode reactions. Hence, it is critically important to investigate and understand its physicochemical characteristics.
In this work, we have built an ammonia fuel cell with an anion exchange membrane. Five commercial anion exchange membranes were characterized in the aspects of ionic conductivity and ammonia crossover rates and their influences on the performance of the ammonia fuel cell were comparatively examined. It is found that both a high conductivity and low ammonia crossover rate of the anion exchange membrane contribute to a higher cell performance. Additionally, a mathematical model incorporating the mass transport, electrochemical reaction, and ammonia crossover occurring in the ammonia fuel cell has been constructed. The model exhibited good agreement with the experiment results. It suggests that a major cause of the voltage loss in the ammonia fuel cell is the anode polarization. Also, it is displayed that the cell performance improves by increasing the reactant concentration because of the increased mass transfer rate of reactants and decreased activation loss of the electrochemical reaction.
Bio: Zhefei Pan, Professor at Chongqing University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Thermal and Power Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2017, respectively, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2021. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the same research group. In 2024, he joined the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Chongqing University. His current research focuses on new energy conversion and storage technologies. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 22 SCI journal articles in prestigious international journals, including Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, ACS Energy Letters, and Advanced Functional Materials.
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