BRANT A. PEPPLEY

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Brant Peppley is the Research Director of the Queen’s-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre in Kingston and is also a professor of Chemical Engineering and the Associate NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Fuel Processing for Fuel Cells at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He has been employed at RMC since 1986 when he was hired to build a test station to verify the performance of the first Ballard Power Systems fuel-cell stack tested outside of Ballard’s labs. After completing the test program he focussed his research on the catalytic production of hydrogen from methanol. This was the process chosen by DaimlerChrysler for their NECAR 3 and NECAR 5 demonstration vehicles. Dr. Peppley was also instrumental in assisting Ballard Power Systems in the development of the methanol fuel processor system for their Marine Power System and he is registered as co-inventor on Ballard’s patent for this technology.

He has worked with numerous companies involved in the fuel cell industry including: Ballard Power Systems (Burnaby, BC), Questair Industries (Burnaby, BC), Hydrogenics (Mississauga, ON), Fuel Cell Technologies (Kingston, ON), General Motors Global Alternative Power Centre (Honoye Falls, NY), DaimlerChrysler (Nabern, Germany), Motorola (Phoenix, AZ), Dupont of Canada (Kingston, ON) and Stuart Energy Systems (Toronto, ON). His former graduate students are employed in the fuel cell programs at GM, Ballard and Hydrogenics. He has been invited to give numerous plenary presentations on methanol-fuel processing and fuel cells including the Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells (Rhode Island, July 2001), the Society of Automotive Engineers Toptec on Fuel Cells (Detroit, April 2002), the TD Newcrest/Canadian Hydrogen Association Fuel Cell Conference (Toronto, April 2001) and the United Nations International Development Organisation Symposium on Catalytic Processes for Sustainable Development (Buenos Aires, September 2001). He is the first Canadian to have been elected as chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells and has been instrumental in organising a number of other symposia and conferences on fuel cells and fuel cell systems.

His current research activities include Hydrogen Production for Fuel-Cell Automobiles (Project Leader-AUTO21 NCE), Fuel Cell Component Reliability and Durability (ORDCF Centre for Automotive Materials and Manufacturing/DuPont Canada), Development of Novel Membrane Material for PEM Fuel Cell (NSERC Discovery Grant) and Fuel Processing for Fuel Cells (NSERC Strategic Partnerships/Hydrogenics/Fuel Cell Technologies).

BRANT A. PEPPLEY

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy Royal Military College of Canada, 1997.(Chemical and Materials Engineering)Master of Science Queen's University, 1993.(Chemical Engineering)Bachelor of Education Queen's University, 1986.Bachelor of Applied Science University of Ottawa, 1978.(Chemical Eng.) Summa Cum Laude

PATENTS

“Compact Methanol Reformer with Integrated Hydrogen Separator”, Ian R. Wheeldon, Brant A. Peppley, Helmut Weiland, United States Application Ser. No. 60/379,756, Filed 14 May 2002.

“Fuel Processing System” R. Holland, G. Schubak, M. Bradley, K. O’Connor and B. Peppley, United States Patent 6,572,837 B1, Issued 3 June 2003.

INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES

“The Fuel Cell Future”, Tenth International Congress on Nuclear Energy, Arlington, VA, 15-19 April 2002 (Invited).

“Fuel Processor Design: The State of the Art” SAE Toptec Dearborn, MI., 10-11 April 2002 (Invited).

“Methanol Fuel Processing for Fuel Cell Power Systems” United Nations Sponsored UNIDO Workshop on Catalysis for Sustainable Development, Buenos Aires Argentina, November 2001 (Invited).

“Fuel Processor Design from a Systems Perspective: Preserving PEM Fuel Cell Efficiency” 222nd ACS National Symposium on “Catalysis for Fuel Cells and Fuel Processing: Clean Power in 21st Century, Chicago, Illinois, August 2001 (Invited).

“Methanol Fuel Processing: catalysis, kinetics and system optimisation.” 2001 Gordon Conference on Fuel Cells, Bristol, Rhode Island, July 2001. (Invited)

“The Evaluation of Direct Methanol Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells using EIS”, Fifth Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Conference, Marilleva, Italy, June 2001. (Keynote)

“The Future of Fuel Cells”, Fuel Cells 2001, TD Newcrest, Canadian Hydrogen Association, and the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation, April 2001. (Keynote)

“The Future for Fuel Processing for Fuel Cell Systems” U.S. Office of Naval Research Grand Challenge on Future Power Sources for the Navy and Marine Corps, Alexandria, Virginia, November 1999. (Invited)