Engr. Charles Ijogbemeye Oseghale

Email: cpp12cio@sheffield.ac.uk

Tel: +441142227501

Biography

I am an academic lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria in the School of Engineering, Faculty of Process & Energy System Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering.

I hold a B.Sc Chemistry from Edo State University (1995), Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering (2000), Master in Chemical Engineering (2004), Postgraduate Diploma in Management (2005) from University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I’m a corporate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and a registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN R.Eng 13434) and a Graduate member of the Energy Institute, UK.

I am currently on my PhD at The University of Sheffield, and my research interest is on “CO2 derived fuels in the development of Formic acid fuel cells“. I have interest in energy storage, development of low cost catalyst in the electro-oxidation of formic acid fuel cell which will serve as electrical power sources for vehicles and portable applications such as laptops, mobile phone batteries with more efficient and longer battery life.

Supervisor

Professor Peter Hall

Research interests

Formic acid can be produced from the direct reaction between CO2 and H2. Direct formic acid fuels are high efficiency devices for the direct conversion of formic acid into electricity and have potential in both stationary and mobile applications. However, they rely on relatively large amounts of precious metals as electrode catalysts, which makes them unattractive commercially. The objective of the current project is to investigate the use of lower value catalysts and to monitor the effects on power density and conversion efficiency. The project will use cyclic voltametry and impedance spectroscopy to test working fuel cell devices and standard materials characterisation such as electron microscopy to characterise electrodes.