Tours of research facilities are a feature of initial fuel cell conference

The first International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology next month will feature a visit to the Thermal Analysis Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

There, visitors will receive a firsthand look at some of the research that is being done on microchannel flow visualization and heat transfer evaluation.

The fuel cell meeting will be from April 21-23 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center in Rochester, N.Y. A conference on micro- and minichannels will follow at the same location. Details and registration for both meetings are available at www.asme.org/fuelcell.

A panel will address codes and standards for hydrogen infrastructure, which are key to ensuring public safety. The panel will include members of the chemical industry, DOE, DOT and ASME.

The high-speed photographic images of flow patterns, critical heat flux phenomena, and liquid droplet behavior on a heated surface will be screened. Some of the new initiatives being undertaken in the lab will also be featured.

Companies participating in the meeting include Iwaki Walchem, of Holliston, Mass., which makes sealless magnetic drive pumps for stack temperature control applications, drain and fuel feed.

Comsol, which will be exhibiting, is the maker of Femlab, multiphysics modeling software for engineering simulation and virtual prototyping in application areas such as fuel cells, MEMS, chemical reactions, electromagnetics and structural mechanics.

CM Furnaces of Bloomfield, N.J., will exhibit some of its research and laboratory furnace equipment, including a line of tube furnaces that heat to 2,000°C and a variety of equipment for specialized research applications and materials testing.

Among exhibitors at the micro/minichannels conference is Dantec Dynamics, a provider of systems solutions for research into flows, turbulence and particle dynamics. The company's products are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from basic research to turbulence phenomena, through the optimization of product design.

For details on how to exhibit at the conferences, e-mail fuelcell@asme.org.

 

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