Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Technology Expert
Technical Consultant #2482
Expertise
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Experience
Undisclosed Company, Chief Technology Officer, Present
- Responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company.
- Working with Executive Management to grow the company through the use of technological resources and a research and development programme.
- Using an active and practical approach, directing all employees engaged in technical development to attain the company's strategic goals established in the company's strategic plan.
- Identification of main literature sources, providing scope of international markets and how they translate to the situation in South Australia.
Independent Consultant, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2016 – Present
- Assignments have included providing technical expertise to startup companies Aquahydrex, Petawatt, Zenogen, HEMS Global, and Microcat Fuels Ltd.
- Design of solar and solar-hybrid systems for GEM Energy, Contributed to Academy of Science report on Energy for Australia in the 21st Century: The central role of electricity.
- Contract work for GHD - due diligence for research grant funding.
- Contract work for GPA engineering - project on direct injection of green hydrogen into natural gas transmission system.
- Provide insight into technology and pricing of electrolysers, gasification and other hydrogen production methods.
- Provide techno-economic analysis of hydrogen pathways.
- Member of the Australian Clean Energy Council, Storage Advisory Group.
- Member of ARENA advisory Panel.
- Member of CSIRO National Hydrogen Roadmap steering committee.
- Exco member for IEA Hydrogen.
LC Engineering, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Industry Advisor, 2011 - 2016
- Subcontractor to Aurecon to design solar/hydrogen/fuel cell energy system for the Sir Samuel Griffith Centre (Brisbane).
- Carried out review of waste gasification technologies for Sydney City Council.
- Invited Keynote Lectures at All-Energy Conference (Melbourne), Ecogen, (Brisbane).
- Leading collaboration with National Physical Laboratory (New Delhi, India) developing new low-Pt catalysts for PEM fuel cells.
- Invited public lectures at NPL New Delhi and IIT New Delhi, and lecture on Heterogenous Catalysis - QUT.
- Chair of the 10th Australian Coal Science Conference.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia , 2010 - 2011
Senior Research Fellow
- Supervised research on low-Pt catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in PEM fuel cells.
- Supervised research on advanced micro-channel reactor design for catalytic fuel processing.
- Taught undergraduate courses in electrochemistry.
- Gave keynote/invited lectures at AIE National Conference (Adelaide), Ecogen, Conference (Sydney), World Hydrogen Energy Conference (Essen), and Second International Climate Change Conference - session and paper on Reef Climate Adaptation Research and Technology.
- Round-table discussion on energy storage at the Royal Institution Australia.
- Member of the International Review Panel for UK energy research (Research Councils UK).
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2002 - 2010
Director of the CSIRO National Hydrogen Materials Alliance, 2007 - 2010
Senior Research Fellow, 2002 - 2010
- Supervised research programme on fuel cells and advanced nanomaterials.
- Chair of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference.
Advantica Technologies Ltd., Loughborough, UK, Principal Scientist, 1990 - 2001
- Responsible for leading fuel cell and hydrogen research and managing research team of scientists and engineers.
- Collaboration with companies/organisations in Europe, Canada and the USA.
- Leading project manager for multi-national research programmes funded by European Commission.
- Member of the Process Technology Group Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Member of the Fuel Cell Advisory Committee for the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Member of the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium organizing committee, the European Fuel Cell Forum and session chair.
- Member of the Electrical Engineering College of the EPSRC.
- Several Invited Lectures to conferences in Europe and the USA.
British Gas/ BG plc., Solihull and Loughborough, 1970 - 1990
Senior Scientist
- Responsible for a project concerned with the long-term availability and supply of liquid hydrocarbon feedstocks.
- Attended courses in project management (PA consultants) and team leadership.
- Worked on project developing catalysts for pre-reforming and methanation of CO-rich gas.
Experimental Scientist
- Worked on catalytic gas making processes including coal gasification, Fischer Tropsch Synthesis, steam reforming of hydrocarbons and hydrodesufurization.
- Named on patents for steam reforming of liquid hydrocarbons over ruthenium catalysts.
- Developed unique assay method for coal decomposition.
- Developed thermal analysis techniques for characterizing carbon deposition on materials.
Accomplishments
- Worked on processes for the gasification of coal and related fuel processing.
- British Gas Economic Planning Section, London (secondment from R&D), Responsible for a project concerned with the long term availability and supply of liquid hydrocarbon feedstocks.
- Worked on coal (BGL slagging gasifier) and oil gasification processes and latterly, especially on catalytic syngas processes including Fischer-Tropsch, methanation and hydrodesulphurisation.
- Built up fuel cell R&D programme and appointed Principal Scientist for Advantica Technologies Ltd., Loughborough, UK.
- Developed a high pressure assay method for coal analysis, which was used in the development of the BG/Lurgi slagging gasifier.
- Appointed to lead the British Gas research group working on fuel cells technology.
- Started collaboration with GEC Alstom, Westinghouse and TNO on SOFC modelling - first of many European-wide collaborations on fuel cells.
- Designed and built Europe’s first pressurised MCFC test facility after technology transfer from IGT (now GTI) in Chicago.
- Managed 2 large European Union Projects on fuel cell systems (SOFC and MCFC) a 9 year project.
- Developed the first fuel cell stack networking configuration, which was later adopted by ECN in Holland, successfully commercialized by Fuel Cell Energy.
- Contributor in the UK government Foresight programme.
- Successfully managed the construction of Europe’s first SOFC balance of plant test facility, in collaboration with ENI Technologie.
- For the European Commission review of fuel cell technology, assisted in developing 10 year strategy for the EC.
- Set up MoU between BG plc and Alstom on Fuel Cell Technology.
- Appointed Director of the CSIRO National Hydrogen Materials Alliance (Flagship research cluster of 12 university research groups and ANSTO).
- Working with Aurecon to design solar/hydrogen/fuel cell energy system for the Sir Samuel Griffith Centre (Brisbane)
- Carried out review of waste gasification technologies for Sydney City Council.
- Invited Keynote Lectures at All-Energy Conference (Melbourne), Ecogen (Brisbane)
- Leading collaboration with National Physical Laboratory (New Delhi, India) developing new low-Pt catalysts for PEM fuel cells.
- Invited public lectures at NPL New Delhi and IIT New Delhi.
- Invited public lecture on Heterogenous Catalysis – QUT.
- Consultancy assignments for Uniquest, Alternative Energy International, and Electrygen.
- Chair of the 10th Australian Coal Science Conference.
- Contributed to Australian Academy of Science report on Energy for Australia in the 21st Century: The Central Role of Electricity.
Honors & Publications
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Education
- Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
- D.I.D. Industrial Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
- B.Sc. Industrial Chemistry, Loughborough Univeristy, Loughborough, UK