Dr
Alfons Molenbroek
(Haldor Topsøe A/S)
28/05/2013, 09:00
The importance of large-scale facilities such as neutron and synchrotron sources in industrial catalysis still increases. Developments of new neutron- and synchrotron-based techniques both contribute to and are driven by developments in catalysis. The need to study catalysts at high temperatures and pressures in a reactive gas or liquid atmosphere resulted in the design and construction of in...
Dr
Masatoshi Arai
(J-PARC Center JAEA)
28/05/2013, 09:40
J-PARC MLF was designed to be a 1 MW spallation neutron source. Presently the power of the proton accelerator is 300 kW with a very stable operation at 94%, a world-class stability, after recovering in January 2012 from the damages by the devastating disaster happened in March 2011.
In order to increase the proton power over 300KW, we need an improvement on the target to mitigate the...
Dr
Pierre Boillat
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
28/05/2013, 10:20
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) are expected to play an important role in the future energy landscape, as the used fuel (hydrogen) allows a better integration of renewable sources. Although they can be considered a technologically viable product for mobility applications (automobiles, buses), the deployment of PEFCs still requires a reduction of the cost of this technology. In...
