SHEL is a multidisciplinary team of internationally-recognised experts with a wide range of capabilities, including:
- Renewable hydrogen systems modeling, design, development, and implementation (e.g. HOMER, TRNSYS, Dedictaed Matlab simulations)
- Fuel cell/electrolyser modeling, design and development (system and component level: MEA, GDL, bipolar plates, catalyst layer)
- Catalysts modeling, design, and development
- Comprehensive numerical modeling and analysis of hydrogen systems (e.g. storage, fuel cells, electrolysers) covering combined electrochemistry and thermofluidic aspects
- Thermo-fluid modeling and design of hydrogen systems (e.g. flow field design, thermal management, reactants control and conditioning, multiphase flows in hydrogen systems, etc.)
- Electrocatalyst design of solid electrolyte membrane including design, synthesis, fabrication, characterisation and performance evaluation
- Fabrication process development for optimum synthesis of highly active, stable and tunable Pt/Pt-alloy electrocatalysts on C-support
- Advanced metal/non-precious metal based electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction
- Novel electrode materials
- Design and fabrication of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and electrolysers
- Synthesis of novel polymer, polymer composites and polymer hybrids for PEMFC
- Computational chemistry (density functional theory and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations)
- Modelling of reactions and adsorption of gases and species on surfaces (including nanomaterials, metals, oxides, composites, amongst others)
- Modelling of structure and associated electronic and magnetic properties, including charge transfer
- Hydrogen systems testing and performance assessment (including high temperature PEM fuel cells)
- Metal hydride development for hydrogen storage
- Control solutions for hydrogen systems
- Nanomaterials synthesis and characterisation
- Application of porous inorganic materials
- High purity hydrogen production using catalytic cracking of methane
- Catalytic decomposition of ammonia into hydrogen
- Additive manufacturing based chemical reactors and catalysts
- Syngas production and conversion
- Gas-to-liquid technologies
- Hydrogen safety