Plenary Speaker
Atsushi Ohma
Advanced Materials and Processing Laboratory, Research Division
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
1, Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Japan, 237-8523
Email: a-ohma@mail.nissan.co.jp
Short Biography
Atsushi Ohma is a senior manager of research division at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. He graduated from Waseda University in 1995, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010, and received PhD of mechanical control and system engineering. He was a chief officer of Fuel cell Commercialization Conference of Japan (FCCJ) from 2010 to 2018. He is also a visiting associate professor of University of Yamanashi since 2012. He enrolled Toshiba Co., Ltd in 1995 and had developed PEFC stack for stationary use for 7 years. Then he moved to Nissan in 2002 to develop PEFC stack, MEA, and catalyst layers/electrocatalyst for automotive use. Since 2016 he has also been in charge of fundamental research for advanced Li-ion battery materials, electrodes, and cells. The main focus of his research is performance analysis for electrochemical material design using both experimental and computational approach.
“Characterization and Test Protocols of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”
Global warming is one of the critical environmental issues. It is an important role for vehicle manufacturers to develop technologies for reducing greenhouse gas. Nissan has been focusing on both electrification and intelligence technologies so far, including battery and fuel cells technologies as a part of “Nissan Intelligent Mobility”. The biggest issues to popularize fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) in the market are cost reduction of polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) power system, and development of hydrogen infrastructure. The former issue includes material and process cost.
In this lecture, main challenges of FC materials and process for future PEFC power systems will be firstly described, based on the updated FCV roadmap in Japan in Dec. 2017. Then secondly, examples of current characterization and test protocols to analyze them will be introduced. Finally future challenges of the characterization will be discussed.