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Speaker: Robert J. Kee
 
（Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA, rjkee@mines.edu）
 
Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
 
Time: 14:00pm ~ 15:30pm
 
Place: Room F310, Building A, School of Mechanical Engineering
 
Contact：Yuying Zhang   Tel: 3420-4449, 151 2105 8161
 
Abstract:
 
This seminar provides a general overview of research at the Colorado School of Mines in clean-energy technologies. The presentation draws on examples from solid-oxide fuel cells, logistics-fuel reforming, energy storage, and alternative-fuel combustion. A unifying theme is the development and application of computational models to represent chemically reacting fluid mechanics. Models range from elementary chemical kinetics through system-level representations. In addition to assisting system design, the models are also being incorporated into model-based process control.  

About Prof. Robert J. Kee:
 
Education:
 
? Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of California, Davis, 1974
 
? M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1970
 
? B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Idaho, 1969
 
Professional Experience:
 
? George R. Brown Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1996-Present
 
? Manager, Thermal and Plasma Processes Department, Sandia National Laboratories, 1985-1996
 
? Supervisor, Applied Mathematics Division, Sandia National Laboratories, 1976-1985
 
? Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, 1970-1975
 
Software:
 
Prof. Kee is the principal architect and developer of the CHEMKIN software, which is the leading software package used worldwidely for simulating chemically reacting flow.
 
Awards: 
 
? The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute, 1990
 
? The Bastress Award for Outstanding Contributions to Technology Transfer, 1991
 
? DOE Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science, Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Materials Chemistry, 1992
 
? Springer Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003
 
? Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, CSM, 2004
 
Research Interests: 

Dr. Kee's research efforts are primarily in the modeling and simulation of thermal and chemically reacting flow processes, with applications to combustion, electrochemistry, and materials manufacturing.  His fuel-cell research concentrates on elementary chemistry and electrochemistry formulations and their coupling with reactive fluid flow.  Primary applications are to solid-oxide fuel cells operating on hydrocarbon fuels.  Recent efforts are concerned with fundamental chemistry in rechargeable batteries.  His combustion research emphasizes the use of elementary chemical kinetics to understand fundamental flame structure.  Recent research includes catalytic combustion and flame-droplet interactions with synthetic fuels.  Catalytic research also considers hydrocarbon-fuel reforming.  The materials-processing efforts emphasize the design, optimization, and control of chemical-vapor-deposition processes, with applications ranging from thin-film photovolatics to CMOS semiconductor devices.  All the research includes development of numerical methods and software to solve systems of stiff differential equations.  It also includes development of an extensive system of general-purpose chemical-kinetics and molecular-transport software.