Student Poster Session
Summer School 2013
Yokohama, Japan
Institute of Chemical Engineering andEnvironmental Technology

M. Bodner, Investigation of active and passive alkaline direct ethanol fuel cells.
C. Chaiburi, Performance decrease of platinum fuel cell catalyst by coolantleakage.
R. Feiner, Chemical hydrogen storage through liquefaction of pyrolysis derived
biochar: a new step towards biofuel from renewable resource.
F. Gebetsroither, Development of segmented bipolar plates for spatial impedance spectroscopy on fuel cell stacks.
C. Gehrer, Austrian participation on the Implementing Agreement on AdvancedFuel Cells.
C. Grimmer, Activity of platinum ﬁrst-row-transition-metal PTM/C cocatalysts.
M. Higuchi, Numerical analysis of PEMFC unsteady performance considering
water and thermal transport.
Y. Horiuchi, In-situ measurements of temperature distributions of catalyst layer
surfaces under ribs and channels using ultra thin ﬁlm thermocouple array.
R. Klambauer, Impedance measurement.
M. Lammer, Generation of pure hydrogen via the steam-iron process.
B. Marius, Investigation and characterisation of the contact mass in the steamiron-process for hydrogen production, - puriﬁcation and – storage.
Y. Minegishi, Experimental study on water transport at the interface between
polymer membranes and gas diffusion layers.
T. Mizusawa, Cycle analysis of hydrogen generation systems with solid oxide
electrolyte cells.
T. Mutoh, Steam electrolysis using solid oxide electrolysis cells.
S. Nestl, Biogas reforming for decentralised hydrogen production.
Y. Nishijima, Electrohydrogenation of Toluene in three-phase boundary among
H2SO4, Toluene and electrode.

Y. Okada, Effect of re-heat treatment for stabilization and activation of zirconium oxide based electrocatalysts as PEFC cathode.
B. Pichler, Manufacture and stability enhancement of platinum nickel cocatalysts for HT-PEM fuel cells.
H. Pucher, Chemical hydrogen storage trough hydrogenation of liquid phasepyrolysis oil.
R. Strasser, Locating liquid water in an operating PEM fuel cell using neutron
radiography.

A. Schenk, Development of platinum cobalt co-catalysts for HT-PEM fuel cells.
N. Uehara, Preparation the high active tantalum oxide-based catalyst toward
oxygen reduction reaction for PEFC.
H. Uryu, Effect of the amount of SiO2 additive in catalyst layer and electrolyte
on the performance using room temperature molten salts without humidiﬁcation.
S. Weinberger, Simulation of spatial electrochemical impedance spectroscopyof fuel cell stacks.

Graz University of Technology
Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology
Prof. V. Hacker, Prof. M. Siebenhofer
viktor.hacker@tugraz.at► www.icvt.tugraz.at
Yokohama National University
Department of Energy and Safety Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. S. Mitsushima, Prof. T. Araki, Prof. K. Ota
mitsushi@ynu.ac.jp► www.ynu.ac.jp

Forthcoming Summer Schoolon Advanced Studies of PEFCs

InternationalSummer Schoolon Advanced Studies ofPolymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

September 7th – 12th, 2014, Graz, Austria
Contact: Carmen Gehrer
Graz University of Technology
Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology
Inffeldgasse 25 C, 8010 Graz, Austria
T: +43(0)316/873-8781
carmen.gehrer@tugraz.at► www.icvt.tugraz.at

Yokohama National University
Division of Materials Science and EngineeringStudent Impressions
Summer School 2013
Yokohama, Japan“The scientiﬁc program was as interesting as the social
program was entertaining and I am very grateful that I
was able to participate in this Summer School.” (Merit)“The discussions with internationally renowned scholars,
the professional training and the cultural exchanges constituted a very valuable experience for me.” (Alexander)“The summer school was a unique cultural and scientiﬁcexperience. I am very impressed by scientiﬁc problem
solving and commitment to research in Japan and I was
deﬁnitely able to beneﬁt from my stay.” (Christoph)“To see the test labs at Nissan Motor Co. and to go by
Fuel Cell Vehicle was exciting!” (Michael)“I‘m very glad I could make Austrian friends! …I‘m gratefulfor getting the precious opportunity!“ (Naoki)“I was able to extend my knowledge about fuel cells …butcould also experience an unfamiliar and overwhelming,but very friendly and interesting country. The Japanese
students were very welcoming….” (Birgit)“The Summer School was a valuable experience andenrichment for my further scientiﬁc work.” (Stephan)“Thank you for giving us the great opportunity for thiscultural exchange.” (Kazuaki)

Lecturers
Summer School 2013
Yokohama, JapanProf. Takuto Araki, Yokohama“The ﬂow conﬁguration, the diffusivity
and the thermal conductivity of the GDL
inﬂuence the mass and heat transport in aPEFC essentially.”
Prof. Angelo Basile, Rende“Dense and Pd-supported membranes
combined with a reformer unify hydrogenproduction and puriﬁcation in one singledevice.”
Prof. Bernd Eichberger, Graz
“Impedance Spectroscopy is a non-invasive
method for analysing frequency dependent
phenomena of fuel cells.”
Prof. Viktor Hacker, Graz
“Better understanding of degradation
mechanisms in PEFC enables further
lifetime improvement.”Dr. Teko Napporn, Poitiers“Efﬁcient electrode materials synthesizedby various methods might lead to a signiﬁcant decrease of noble metal loadings.”
Prof. Ken-ichiro Ota, Yokohama„Hydrogen will be an essential ingredientin an energy economy with low environmental impact.”

Dr. Uwe Reimer, Jülich
“Modeling is a key to understanding thefundamental processes from electrode tostack and system level.”
Dott. Gaetano Squadrito, Messina“Standardised procedures for lab-scale
MEA preparation and characterisation are
an integral part of material and component development.”

Dr. Astrid Hofer, Graz
“The direct oxidation of alcohols inalkaline fuel cells avoids the use ofplatinum catalysts.”
Prof. Boniface Kokoh, Poitiers“The main kinetic parameters of the ORR
are assessed by the application of ButlerVolmer and Koutecky-Levich equations.”
Prof. Shigenori Mitsushima, Yokohama“Exact electrochemical measurements arethe basis to determine performance relatedparameters.”

Advanced Studies of Polymer
Electrolyte Fuel Cells
6th International Summer School
Shigenori Mitsushima, Takuto Araki, Ken-ichiro Ota, Viktor Hacker, Matthäus Siebenhofer (eds.)

Abstract Book
S. Mitsushima,T. Araki,
K.-I. Ota, V. Hacker,
M. Siebenhofer (eds.):
Advanced Studies ofPolymer Electrolyte FuelCells, 6th International
Summer School.
ISBN: 978-3-85125-271-2