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Rui Ferreira

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Rui Ferreira

About

Rui Ferreira got a Master Degree in Environmental Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) in 2012. In 2017, he finished his PhD on Chemical and Biological Engineering, also at FEUP, with a thesis entitled “Two-phase flow in PEM fuel cells: 1D + 3D model development and numerical simulations”. Rui is currently a PhD researcher at the Transport Phenomena Research Center (CEFT), in the field of fuel cells and electrolyzers. He has been involved in several national and international projects, and has experience in the development and characterization of fuel cells and electrolyzers as well as in the development of numerical models based on computational fluids dynamics (CFD).

Research interests

PEM fuel cells, PEM Electrolysis, Unitized Reversible Fuel Cells, AEM Electrolysis, Direct Ammonia Fuel Cells.

Selected publications

  1. Ferreira RB, Santos DFM, Pinto AMFR, Falcão DS. Development and testing of a PEM fuel cell stack envisioning unmanned aerial vehicles applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2024;51:1345-53.
  2. Santos DFM, Falcão DS, Pinto AMFR, Ferreira RB. Effect of membrane electrode assembly characteristics on the performance of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack designed for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. International Journal of Green Energy. 2023.
  3. Rocha A, Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Pinto AMFR. Experimental study on a unitized regenerative fuel cell operated in constant electrode mode: Effect of cell design and operating conditions. Renewable Energy. 2023;215.
  4. Santos DFM, Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Pinto AMFR. Evaluation of a fuel cell system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles. Energy. 2022;253.
  5. Pinto AMFR, Falcão DS, Ferreira RB. Electrolyzers: Principles and Types. Encyclopedia of Energy Storage: Volume 1-42022. p. 266-75.
  6. Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Pinto AMFR. Simulation of membrane chemical degradation in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell by computational fluid dynamics. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2021;46:1106-20.
  7. Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Oliveira VB, Pinto AMFR. Experimental study on the membrane electrode assembly of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell: effects of microporous layer, membrane thickness and gas diffusion layer hydrophobic treatment. Electrochimica Acta. 2017;224:337-45.
  8. Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Oliveira VB, Pinto AMFR. 1D + 3D two-phase flow numerical model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Applied Energy. 2017;203:474-95.
  9. Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Oliveira VB, Pinto AMFR. Numerical simulations of two-phase flow in an anode gas channel of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Energy. 2015;82:619-28.
  10. Ferreira RB, Falcão DS, Oliveira VB, Pinto AMFR. Numerical simulations of two-phase flow in proton exchange membrane fuel cells using the volume of fluid method - A review. Journal of Power Sources. 2015;277:329-42.