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Interpore 2015

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation at the minisymposium;
“Multiscale modeling of transport processes in Fuel Cell and hydrogen economy related applications”
which is organized by Marc Prat (IMFT, Toulouse), Joel Pauchet (CEA, Genoble) and myself, in the context of the 7th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting (INTERPORE), May 18 – 21, 2015, Padova, Italy.

The minisymposium aspires to bring together scientists from the rapidly growing field of modeling transport processes in hydrogen-related applications using pore scale, pore network and continuum scale approaches.

Emphasis will be on Fuel Cell components, such as Gas Diffusion Layers, Microporous Layers and Porous Electrodes. Contributions associated with relevant hydrogen-economy applications, such as hydrogen purification, storage in solids are also welcome (Download Full Abstract).

Abstract submission is open online until 14 January 2015, though the following link Submit INTERPORE abstract.  Contributors should select MS.2.2 minisymposium from the available list.

Research Topics

Drying of Porous Materials

Drying in porous media is process involving liquid flow, mass transfer and phase change at liquid-gas interfaces.

We study both theoretically and experimentally how these pore scale phenomena determine the macroscopic behaviour of the process, including recovery rates and phase distribution patterns.

We then propose pore network models that account for all major transport mechanisms identified in our experiments and focus accurate providing predictive results in model and real-life porous media. This research is performed in collaboration with prof. Yanis Yortsos, USC, Dr. A. Stubos, NCSR Demokritos and prof. D. Salin, CNRS. (Related work #1, #2)