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Clarkson
Receives Royalty Payments
Clarkson has
received nearly $ 140,000 in royalty payments during 2006-07, including
$136,918.36 from Ferro Corporation. NanoDynamics contributed $2,564.10
and Ames Goldsmith, Corporation provided $292.28. Ferro Corporation
also paid an additional $81,780 during the three years 2004-06.
The Ferro Corporation royalties cover licenses for a CAMP Slurry
formulation developed in Professor Babu's laboratory by Dr. Ramanathan
Srinivasan (currently on the faculty at IIT Chennai, India) and
Dr. William America (currently a manager at NXP Semiconductor in
East Fishkill, New York).
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CAMP
Professors Carryout Fuel
Cell Research
CAMP Professors
Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Gregory Campbell, Dipankar Roy, Dan Goia,
Ian Suni, and Don Rasmussen are involved in various aspects of fuel
cell research.
Figure 1. Tubular PEMFC with forced air supply in cathode channel
Professors Raghunathan
Rengaswamy and Gregory Campbell
Professor Rengaswamy's research
group is working in the areas of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)
and proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Detailed models
have been developed to predict the performance of tubular solid
oxide fuel cells and the models are currently being used in optimization
studies. A multivarible nonlinear load following controller is being
developed. In the area of PEM fuel cells, non-invasive, in-situ
diagnostics of PEMFC stacks using advanced signal processing algorithms
for identifying operational problems are being developed. Professors
Rengaswamy and Campbell are working on the development of composite
polymers as membrane replacement and the coating of conductive polymers
on alternate low weight, low cost materials to be used as flow manifolds
in PEM fuel cells. As a result of pursuing the idea of fuel cells
with improved power to weight ratio, Professors Rengaswamy and Campbell
have developed tubular PEM fuel cells, a prototype of which is shown
in Figure 1. Initial results (Figure 2) comparing the planar and
tubular fuel cells, using the same non-commercial MEA, are very
encouraging.
Figure 2. Performance comparison of Tubular and Planar PEMFC
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