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Woo-Kum Lee

Research Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitæ

I. Education

• Ph. D., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2000
• B. S., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1995
• M. S., Engineering Science & Mechanics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1988
• B. S., Mechanical Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea, 1982

II. Publications

9. R. Mohtadi, W-k. Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "Assessing Durability of Cathodes Exposed to Common Air Impurities", accepted J. Power Sources, 2004.
8. Tao Gu, W-k. Lee, M. Murthy and J. W. Van Zee, "The Effect of Reformate Components on PEMFC Performance: Dilution and Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction", accepted J. Electrochem. Soc., 2004.
7. R. Mohtadi, W-k. Lee, M. Murthy and J. W. Van Zee, "Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide on the Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell", Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 6 (12) A272-A274, 2003.
6. Woo-kum Lee, M. Murthy and J. W. Van Zee, "A Method for Characterizing CO Transients in a PEMFC", J. Fuel Cells-From Fundamentals to System, 3 (1-2), 52 " 58, 2003.
5. H. J. Soto, W-k. Lee, M. Murthy and J. W. Van Zee, "The Effect of Transient Ammonia Concentrations on PEMFC Performance", Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 6 (7), A133, 2003.
4. W-k. Lee, S. Shimpalee and J. W. Van Zee, "Verifying Predictions of Water and Current Distributions in a Serpentine Flow Field PEMFC", J. Electrochem. Soc., 150 (3), A341, 2003.
3. Mahesh Murthy, Manuel Esayian, Woo-kum Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell Exposed to Transient CO Concentrations", J. Electrochem. Soc., 150 (1), A29, 2003.
2. Mahesh Murthy, Manuel Esayian, Alex Hobson, Steve MacKenzie, Woo-kum Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell Exposed to Transient CO Concentrations", J. Electrochem. Soc., 148 (10), A1147, 2001.
1. Woo-kum Lee, Chien-Hsien Ho, J. W. Van Zee and Mahesh Murthy, "The effects of compression and gas diffusion layers on the performance Of A PEM Fuel Cell", J. Power Sources, 84, 45, 1999.

III. Book Chapters and Proceedings Volumes

12. T. Gu, W-k. Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Dilution Effect of Reformate Components on PEMFC Performance", Proceeding in the 202nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Salt Lake, Utah, October 2002.
11. H. J. Soto, W-k. Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Effect of Ammonia in Reformate on PEMFC Performance", Proceeding in the 202nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Salt Lake, Utah, October 2002.
10. S. Greenway, S. Shimpalee, W-k. Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Interaction of Permeability and Flow-Field Geometry on PEMFC Performance", Proceeding in the 202nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Salt Lake, Utah, October 2002.
9. Woo-kum Lee, J. W. Van Zee and Mahesh Murthy, "Determination of the Dynamic Characteristics in the CO Transient Process in a PEM Fuel Cell", Proceeding in AIChE, New Orleans, LA, March 2002.
8. M. Murthy, Woo-kum Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "The Effect of Reformate on PEM Fuel Cell Performance", Proceeding in AIChE, New Orleans, LA, March 2002.
7. J. Glandt, S. Shimpalee, W-k. Lee and J. W. Van Zee, "Modeling the effect of flow field design on PEM fuel cell performance", Proceeding in AIChE"s 2002 spring national meeting, New Orleans, LA. March 2002.
6. S. Shimpalee, Woo-kum. Lee, J. W. Van Zee and H. Naseri-Neshat, "Using CFD to explain transient response of a PEM Fuel Cell", Proceeding in the 200th meeting of the Electrochemical Society, San Francisco, CA. September 2001.
5. Woo-kum Lee, S. Shimpalee, H. Naseri-Neshat and J. W. Van Zee, "Experimental techniques for PEM fuel cell", Proceeding of the IECEC, Vol. 2, IECEC2001-ET-11, p 967 - 973, 2001.
4. S. Shimpalee, Woo-kum Lee, H. Naseri-Neshat and J.W. Van Zee, "Advance in computational fluid dynamics modeling for PEM fuel cells", Proceeding of the IECEC, Vol. 2, IECEC2001-ET-10, p 959 - 965, 2001.
3. Woo-kum Lee, J. W. Van Zee, S. Shimpalee and S. Dutta, "Effect of Humidity on PEM Fuel Cell Performance Part I: Experiments", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vol. 5, 454, 1999.
2. S. Shimpalee, S. Dutta, Woo-kum Lee and J.W. Van Zee, "Effect of humidity on PEM fuel cell performance: part II - Numerical Simulation", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, HTD-Vol. 364-1, 367, 1999.
1. H. Naseri-Neshat, S. Shimpalee, S. Dutta, Woo-kum Lee and J.W. Van Zee, "Predicting the effect of gas-flow channel spacing on current density in PEM fuel cells", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, AES-Vol. 39, 337, 1999.

IV. Patents

1. J. W. Van Zee, Woo-kum Lee and M. Murthy, "METHODE AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A FUEL CELL", US Patent application # 60/362,693.
2. J. W. Van Zee, Woo-kum Lee and M. Murthy, "METHODE AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A FUEL CELL", US Patent application # 60/363,077.