Kashmir S. Gill, PEng, PhD
Industrial Technology Advisor
c/o Alberta Research Council
250 Karl Clark Road
Edmonton, AB, T6N 1E4

Tel: (780) 495-2136
Fax: (780) 495-6510
E-mail: kashmir.gill@nrc.gc.ca

POSTERS SESSION

P-1       CHARACTERIZATION OF CARBON DEPOSITION ON NI/YSZ COMPOSITES
Hongpeng He^* and Josephine M. Hill, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary

P-2       THE IMPACT AND MITIGATION OF CHROMIUM POISONING IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL CATHODES
Scott Paulson and Viola Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-3       INFLUENCE OF STARTING POWDER ON THE SINTERING BEHAVIOR AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF TAPE CAST NI/YSZ COMPOSITE   LAMINATES FOR SOFC APPLICATIONS
Ryan M. Clemmer* and Stephen F. Corbin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo

P-4       Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxygen Reduction at Sol Derived     [Co, N, C]-Based Catalysts in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel            Cells
Ana Mani, T. Nguyen and V. Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-5       OPTIMAL CONCURRENT DESIGN OF FUEL CELLS, FUEL CELL STACKS, AND FUEL CELL SYSTEMS CONSIDERING FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE  AND PRODUCTION COST
Deyi Xue, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary

P-6       PROCESSING OF THIN CERIA ELECTROLYTE FOR INTERMEDIATE-  TEMPERATURE SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS
Man Liu, Luis Yamarte, Hongsang Rho, Lorne Johanson and Partho Sarkar, Advanced Materials Business Unit, Alberta Research Council Inc.

P-7       METHANOL OXIDATION ON Pt:Ir SOL-DERIVED CATALYSTS INTENDED FOR FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS
Haralampos Tsaprailis*, Kerry-Anne Holmes, and Viola Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-8       LOW TEMPERATURE THIN CERIA-BASED ELECTROLYTE SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL
Radenka Maric, Xinge Zhang, Mark Robertson,  Rob Hui,  Justin Roller, Wei Qu
and   dave Ghosh, National Research Council Canada , Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation,

P-9       ELECTROCHEMICAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSES OF THE    MICROTUBULAR SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL
Jeff N. Soderberg*^a, Partho Sarkar^b, Hongsang Rho^b, and Viola I. Birss^a
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Calgary
^bAdvanced Materials Business Unit, Alberta Research Council Inc.

P-10     COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE PREDICTION OF A MICRO-TUBULAR  SOFC WITH MIXED CONDUCTING ELECTRODES
Mohammad Saeid Amiri*, Partho Sarkar¹, R. E. Hays, K. Nandakumar, Karl T. Chuang
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta
¹Advanced Materials Business Unit, Alberta Research Council Inc.

P-11     PREPARATION OF ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELL      BASED ON CROSSLINKED POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) WITH  POLY(STYRENE SULFONIC ACID-CO-MALEIC ACID)

Ji Won Rhim,  Tae II Yun*, Mu Young Seo*, and Sang Young Nam1, *Department of Chemical Engineering Hannam University , Korea
¹Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Gyeongsang National University , Chinju , Korea

P-12     FABRICATION OF COMPOSITE SOFC ANODES
C.M. Volohatuke*, J.L. Young, M.A. Haldane and T.H. Etsell
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

P-13     ELECTROCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF SR DOPED LAMNO₃ PEROVSKITE  CATHODES AND THEIR COMPOSITES FOR MICRO-TUBULAR SOLID  OXIDE FUEL CELLS
L. Sun and V.I. Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-14     MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN  A SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL CATHODE
B. Kenney* and K. Karan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University

P-15     NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF GEOMETRY RELATED DISTORTIONS OF THE     IMPEDANCE SPECTRA FOR DIFFERENT ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS

M. Cimenti*¹, V. I. Birss², and J. M. Hill^{1, 1} Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, ² Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-16     THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION OF SOL GEL DERIVED NI-YSZ SOFC CATALYSTS
S.K.Y. Kung* P.G. Keech and V.I. Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-17     APPLICATION OF CONDUCTING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY TO THE STUDY OF NI-YSZ SOFC ELECTRODE MATERIALS
T. Smith* and Dr. V. Birss, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary

P-18     A NEW METHOD TO MEASURE THE PROTON CONDUCTIVITY OF  LINASO₄ UNDER FUEL CELL CONDITIONS
Yu Feng, Jingli Luo and Karl Chuang, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

P-19     SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF FUEL CELL ANODE MATERIALS
C. D. Eastman , T.H. Etsell and A.E. Nelson
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

P-20     STUDY OF ANODE MATERIALS FOR DIRECT OXIDATION OF METHANE IN A HYDROGEN SULFIDE ENVIRONMENT FOR APPLICATION IN A  SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL
Joyce Funk, Tom Etsell and A.E. Nelson
University of Alberta , Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering,
Edmonton , Alberta

P-21     DYNAMIC MODELING AND SIMULATION OF SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL
Yutong Qi*, Biao Huang, Karl T. Chuang and Jingli Luo, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta