Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to inform you that exciting changes are taking place at the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center. To begin with, we will be changing our name to the Center for Clean Energy Engineering at the University of Connecticut. This change reflects our expanded role in the emerging energy technology areas consisting of: biofuels, coal gasification, fuel bundling, hydrogen production, alternate energy conversion, energy storage, carbon sequestration, natural resource conservation, power management and smart power transmission. I firmly believe that this change leverages our core strength and leadership in the field of advanced fuel cell technologies and power generation systems and enables our students and faculty to better address the global energy and environmental needs. These changes have been approved by the University's Board of Trustees and will be implemented shortly along with a new updated web site. In the meantime, please continue to enjoy the information on this web site.

I look forward to working with you.

Sincerely,

Prabhakar Singh

Director's Message

On behalf of our faculty and staff, welcome the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center at the University of Connecticut.

Our mission at the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC) is to provide world-class education, research and training of scientists and engineers and to advance innovations that transform "Science to Systems." The CGFCC will address near- and long-term challenges related to energy security and independence, efficient use of existing fuel resources, and global environmental concerns through collaboration with academia, industrial partners and recognized national and international technical experts.

The CGFCC, operated by the UConn School of Engineering and an integral facet of the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy, conducts multidisciplinary research in sustainable energy with particular emphasis on the development of clean and efficient fuel cell power generation systems for stationary, mobile and portable applications. The Center is uniquely placed in an ever more prominent position today to contribute to the knowledge base and innovative engineering solutions to accelerate the market transformation through the development and deployment of cost effective and reliable fuel cell systems.

The recent addition of six faculty members who will contribute toward the mission of the Eminent Faculty Initiative further strengthens the Center as a research nexus that will accelerate the development of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable energy solutions. While our work with the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, DARPA, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, National Science Foundation and NIST centers on advancing climate-friendly and affordable energy technologies critical to our national energy infrastructure and national security needs, our partnerships with top fuel cell companies such as FuelCell Energy, UTC Power and Proton Energy Systems focuses on the development and implementation of innovative engineering approaches for solving systems issues, balance of plant configurations, hydrocarbon and renewable fuel processing and cost reduction.

As we continue to build momentum, the CGFCC will gain international recognition as a global leader in (a) education and training, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary curriculum ranging from fuel chemistry and fuel cell science to materials, electrical and chemical engineering and computational sciences along with hands-on laboratory and field testing; (b) research and development in advanced electronics and nano architectures to electrical systems; (c) understanding the long-term stability, functional integration, and novel systems development for portable, mobile, stationary and space applications as well as electrolysis and co-generation of fuels and power to advanced biological and regenerative systems; and (d) advancing industrial and systems research through close collaboration with fuel cell industries, component manufacturers, systems integrators and utilities and other users.

The Center boasts well-equipped laboratories for the development, synthesis, characterization and testing of advanced clean energy and fuel cell systems, and our faculty possess considerable experience in the testing of electrochemical, mechanical, catalytic and electrical properties of various fuel cell systems (PEM, MCFC, SOFC, DBFC, PAFC, etc.) and subsystems.

We appreciate your interest in the CGFCC and invite you to explore our website further. Please do not hesitate to call us for additional details.

Sincerely,

Prabhakar Singh, Ph.D.
Director
Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center
UTC Professor in Fuel Cell Science & Technology
44 Weaver Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-5233
Phone: 860-486-8379
Fax: 860-486-8378