Training Course: Fuel Cell Modeling and Optimization

Course overview:
In the last decades, many scenarios have been constructed to organize the energy future of all industrialized and non-industrialized countries. All scenarios are based on requirements of a clean, safe and sustainable energy future, while the major outcomes all agree in indicating the hydrogen, with its production and distribution chain, as the energy carrier able to provide the right future solution. Correspondingly, fuel cell systems and devices have been identified as the key technology for the deploiment and the transition toward the so-called Hydrogen economy.

Under the UNESCO and the MATT sponsorship, CRS4 is organizing a training course on "Fuel Cell Modeling and Optimization". The course will take place in CRS4, PST "POLARIS" , Pula (CA), Sardinia, Italy. It will start on May 2, 2005 and will last for a month.

The main objective of the course is to train the PhD level students in the field of basic understanding of fuel cell phenomenology and in the related sector of fuel cells modelling, algorithm development, simulations, and experimental characterization techniques. The training project will also be heavily based on the realization of many computer experiments and on comparison between modelling outcomes and experimental data. The training project is addressed to researchers coming from Eastern European countries