Jeongmin Ahn - Assistant Professor

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Jeongmin Ahn - Assistant Professor

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Contact Information:

office Sloan 217
telephone 509 335 7711
e-mail ahn@mme.wsu.edu
Postal mail Jeongmin Ahn
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
PO BOX 642920
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
Jeongmin Ahn

Joined MME in 2006
PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 2005

Research Interests:

  • Energy Conversion, Combustion, Thermal Management, MEMS:
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)
  • Development of an integrated meso- and micro-scale power generator
  • Development of meso- and micro-combustors/heat exchangers
  • Gas-phase and catalytic combustion in heat-recirculating combustors/exchangers
  • Catalyst development for ultra low-temperature reaction
  • Thermal transpiration based propulsion and pumping

Recent Publications:

  • Jeongmin Ahn, “Swiss Roll Heat Exchangers/Reactors and Solid-Oxide-Fuel-Cells Power Generation”, VDM Publisher, Saarbrücken, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-639-05298-5 (2008).
  • Jeong-Hyun Cho, ChienShung Lin, Cecilia D. Richrds, Robert F. Richards, Jeongmin Ahn, and Paul D. Ronney, “Demonstration of an External Combustion Micro-Heat Engine”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 3099-3105 (2009).
  • Jeongmin Ahn, Paul D. Ronney, Zongping Shao, and Sossina Haile, “A Thermally Self-Sustaining Miniature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell”, Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 041004 (2009).
  • Hongxia Gu, Yao Zheng, Ran Ran, Zongping Shao, Wanqin Jin, Nanping Xu, Jeongmin.Ahn, “Synthesis and Assessment of La0.8Sr0.2ScyMn1-yO3-5 as Cathode for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells on Scandium-Stablized Zirconia Electrolyte”, Power Sources, Vol. 183, Issue 2, pp. 471-478 (2008).
  • Ye Lin, Ran Ran, Yao Zheng, Zongping Shao, Wanqin Jin, Nanping Xu, Jeongmin Ahn, “Evaluation of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-5 as a Potential Cathode for an Anode-Supported Proton- Conducting Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell”, Power Sources, Vol. 180, Issue 1, pp. 15-22 (2008).
  • Chunming Zhang, Yao Zheng, Ran Ran, Zongping Shao, Wanqin Jin, Nanping Xu, Jeongmin Ahn, “Initialization of a Methane-Fueled Single-Chamber Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell with NiO+SDC Anode and BSCF+SDC Cathode”, Power Sources, Vol. 179, Issue 2, pp. 640-648 (2008).
  • Kang Wang, Ran Ran, Wei Zhou, Hongxia Gu, Zongping Shao, and Jeongmin Ahn, “Properties and Performance of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-5+Sm0.2Ce0.8O1.9 Composite Cathode”, Power Sources, Vol. 179, Issue 1, pp. 60-68 (2008)
  • Wei Zhou, Ran Ran, Zongping Shao, Rui Cai, Wanqui Jin, Nanping Xu, and Jeongmin Ahn, “Electrochemical Performance of Silver-Modified Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-5 Cathodes Prepared Via Electroless Deposition”, Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 53, Issue 13, pp. 4370-4380 (2008).
  • Hongxia Gu, Ran Ran, Wei Zhou, Zongping Shao, Wanqin Ji, Nanping Xu, and Jeongmin Ahn, “Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Operated on In-Situ Catalytic Decomposition Products of Liquid Hydrazine”, Power Sources, Vol. 177, Issue 2, pp. 323-329 (2008).
  • Zongping Shao, Sossina M. Haile, Jeongmin Ahn, Paul D. Ronney, Zhongliang Zhan and Scott A. Barnett, “A Thermally Self-Sustained Micro Solid-Oxide Fuel-Cell Stack with High Power Density”, Nature, Vol. 435, pp. 795-798 (2005).
  • Jeongmin Ahn, Craig Eastwood, Lars Sitzki and Paul D. Ronney, “Gas-Phase and Catalytic Combustion in Heat-Recirculating Burners”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 30, Issue 2, pp. 2463-2472 (2005).
  • Kaoru Maruta, Koichi Takeda, Jeongmin Ahn, Kevin Borer, Lars Sitzki, Paul D. Ronney, and Olaf Deutschmann, “Extinction Limits of Catalytic Combustion in Microchannels”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 957-963 (2002).

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