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SpeakersPROFESSOR SCOTT SAMUELSEN Professor Samuelsen is director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California Irvine, and professor of mechanical, aerospace, and environmental engineering. He also directs the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) and hosts the Secretariat of the Pacific Rim Consortium on Energy, Combustion, and the Environment (PARCON). His research is directed to fuel cells and fuel cell systems for stationary applications, and the hydrogen infrastructure for mobile hydrogen-fueled combustion and fuel cell vehicles. He directs anchor research on advanced coal and natural gas power plants for the co-production of electricity and hydrogen for the U.S. Department of Energy, distributed generation and information technology research for the U.S. Department of Defense in support of energy-efficient and environmentally-responsible power generation, hydrogen refueling research for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, advanced energy systems research for the California Energy Commission, and hydrogen-fueled vehicle market research with the University of California Institute for Transportation Studies. He heads the successful "Universities for Fuel Cells" initiative
for the DOE and DoD, co-chairs the California Stationary Fuel Cell
Collaborative, leads the collaborative standing committee on the stationary
fuel cell and hydrogen vehicle interface, and serves on the Implementation
Advisory Panel for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Hydrogen
Highway initiative. His energy expertise is based on 40 years of combustion
research working with strategic alliances involving industry with applications
to gas turbine propulsion, gas turbine electronic power generation,
and combustion distributed generation resources. He holds a doctoral
degree from the University of California Berkeley. DR. JACK BROUWER Dr. Brouwer is associate director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center and adjunct assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Brouwer holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His expertise encompasses energy systems, fuel cells, combustion, turbulent reacting flows, computational fluid dynamics, detailed chemical kinetics, and the design and operation of advanced experimental facilities for emerging energy technologies. Prior to joining the NFCRC, Dr. Brouwer was on the faculty at the
University of Utah, a senior engineer at Reaction Engineering International,
and a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. At the NFCRC,
Dr. Brouwer has overall responsibility for the management and operations
of the center, which is breaking new ground in the design and conduct
of both a university center and a national center. Through Dr. Brouwer's
leadership, the NFCRC is focusing its research, beta testing, education,
and outreach on high-efficiency, environmentally preferred power generation
technology advancement with fuel cell systems as principal targets. DR. ASHOK RAO Dr. Rao is the recipient of several patent awards in the area of energy conversion, including a patent for the Humid Air Turbine (HAT) cycle, an advanced gas turbine based cycle. He is the author of several papers on advanced power cycles and improved Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) designs. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in chemical engineering. His work experience includes assignments with Allis-Chalmers and with
McDowell Wellman Engineering where his responsibilities included all
the required phases of taking ideas from the “drawing board” to
demonstration scale plants. MR. BILL REINERT Note: We will be adding to this site as we confirm our speakers’ biographical
information.
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