Flora Ashley Daniels' Webpage
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Postgraduate Researcher Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 2643 Email: flora.daniels.09@ucl.ac.uk |
Address: Department of Chemical Engineering University College London Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE United Kingdom |
Flora gained an M.Eng. from the Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL in 2009. Her research project focused on the use of artificial neural networks in stochastic programming.
Research project
Title: The ‘Flexible’ Fuel Cell
Supervisor: Dr Dan Brett
The fundamentals of fuel cell science are well known; the conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack has been around since the 1960s. However, this fuel cell design is bulky and expensive, making it an unattractive option for mass production. Consequently, the majority of research today focuses on improving important characteristics which affect performance and commercialisation such as the materials used, water management and heat management.
This project aims to develop a new type of fuel cell based on printed circuit board (PCB) technology with higher fault tolerance, flexible design and reduced cost. It aims to optimise the design parameters in order to easily manufacture planar flexible stacks for large-scale power production.
Modelling and experimental procedures are being used to facilitate the design, testing and validation of this new fuel cell technology.
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