I/UCRC for Fuel Cell Research - Operation Grant

University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia SC

Investigators

Abstract

Fuel cells have the ability to provide environmentally friendly power with at $10 billion U.S. economic potential. Our nations' leaders have recently announced that fuel cell development is now a major thrust of the government with a primary goal of large scale commercialization. A research center addressing this goal is important in that the center will provide benefits to the industrial community by providing an avenue for leveraging risks in a cooperative environment and by developing the technology to keep the U.S. as a leader in fuel cell development. A planning grant (EEC-0200471) has established the feasibility and viability of establishing an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Fuel Cell Research at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. The research projects for the proposed center will address such issues as hydrogen storage, catalyst development, computational fluid dynamics of fuel cell processes, mathematical model development for fuel cell design, laboratory testing of fuel cells, and fuel cell characterization