Dr. Fuller’s research facilities are located in the school of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and within Aerospace, Transportation, and Advanced Systems Laboratory of GTRI. The combined labs contain about 2500 ft2 dedicated to fundamental work in electrochemical engineering. These facilities are equipped with an array of instrumentation and safety systems to support to the design, development, and testing of battery, fuel-cell, and hybrid power systems. The facility provides the infrastructure (e.g., 400 kW of prime power, circulating chilled water, deionized water, distributed specialty gases, and approved ventilation and safety systems) needed to develop and characterize prototype or production assemblies. Equipment includes potentiostats, galvanometers, fuel-cell test stations, power-systems analyzers, and gas chromatographs that have been selected to support the design, development, and testing of battery and fuel-cell systems. GT has recently purchased an ion chromatograph (Dionex ICS-2000 Reagent-Free Integrated IC System). It was specified for detecting and analyzing F- emissions in support of existing membrane degradation research at the university. This instrument will be available for this proposed work. Detecting F- is a key indicator of membrane degradation and will be vital for this project. In addition, fuel-cell test capabilities for small-scale (5 cm 5 cm) fundamental work are available. The lab also has an environmental chamber, Associated Environmental Systems Model BHD-508, capable of maintaining temperatures between –37 °C and 177 °C and controlling relative humidity from 10 to 98 percent.

(Back row: Tom Fuller, Eric Ping, Michael Skinner, David Wong, Tom Bradley, George Nelson; Front row: Kevin Gallagher, Raji Chandrasekaran, Norimitsu Takeuchi, Cheng Chen, Wu Bi, Comas Haynes); Dr. Gary Gray (not shown)

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Dr. Fuller won the Research Award of the Energy Technology Division of The Electrochemical Society!