Prof. Dr. Thomas Hocker

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hocker

ZHAW School of Engineering
Multiphysik-Modellierung und Bildverarbeitung
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 78 37
thomas.hocker@zhaw.ch

Projekte

Digital Wolfram Next / Co-Projektleiter:in / laufend
Exploring Ice Adhesion: Integrating Multiphysics Modelling with Advanced Experimental Techniques / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Keramische Lufterhitzer für extreme Prozesstemperaturen / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
Verbesserte Messungen von Blutgeschwindigkeiten und Blutdruck mit dem PhysioCath Katheter / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Fuel Cells HydroGen educatiOnal model for schools / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
Versatile oxide fuel cell microstructures employing WGS active titanate anode current collectors compatible to ferritic stainless steel interconnects / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Entwicklung der Serienreife von neuartigen vollkeramischen Hochtemperatur-Heizelementen zur Heisslufterzeugung / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Entwicklung neuer Heizelemente für Heissluftgebläse / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
CO2 Reduction & Reuse / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Relationships between 3D topology and reaction kinetics in mixed conducting electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
Enhancing the Lifetime of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell stacks in Switzerland / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells – Integrating Degradation Effects into Lifetime Prediction Models / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

Marmet, P. et al. (2024) 'Effective transport properties of porous composites applied to MIEC SOC electrodes', Energy Advances, 3(8), pp. 2013–2034. doi: 10.1039/d4ya00074a.
Marmet, P. et al. (2024) 'Multiscale-multiphysics model for optimization of novel ceramic MIEC solid oxide fuel cell electrodes', The International Journal of Multiphysics, 18(2s), pp. 58–83. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30992.
Marmet, P. et al. (2023) 'Stochastic microstructure modeling of SOC electrodes based on a pluri-Gaussian method', Energy Advances, 2(11), pp. 1942–1967. doi: 10.1039/D3YA00332A.
Marmet, P. et al. (2023) 'Standardized microstructure characterization of SOC electrodes as a key element for Digital Materials Design', Energy Advances, 2(7), pp. 980–1013. doi: 10.1039/D3YA00132F.
Marmet, P. et al. (2021) 'Modeling the impedance response and steady state behaviour of porous CGO-based MIEC anodes', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23(40), pp. 23042–23074. doi: 10.1039/D1CP01962G.
Wick-Joliat, R. et al. (2021) 'MoSi2/Al2O3/feldspar composites for injection‐molded ceramic heating elements', Advanced Engineering Materials, 23(9), p. 2100517. doi: 10.1002/adem.202100517.
Meier, C. et al. (2018) 'Lagrangian model using CFD flow data to predict the current-voltage characteristics of a solid oxide fuel cell repeat unit', The International Journal of Multiphysics, 12(4), pp. 393–411. doi: 10.21152/1750-9548.12.4.393.
Pecho, O. M. et al. (2015) '3D microstructure effects in Ni-YSZ anodes : influence of TPB lengths on the electrochemical performance', Materials, 8(10), pp. 7129–7144. doi: 10.3390/ma8105370.
Linder, M. et al. (2015) 'Ohmic resistance of nickel infiltrated chromium oxide scales in solid oxide fuel cell metallic interconnects', Solid State Ionics, 283, pp. 38–51. doi: 10.1016/j.ssi.2015.11.003.
Pecho, O. M. et al. (2015) '3D microstructure effects in Ni-YSZ anodes : prediction of effective transport properties and optimization of redox stability', Materials, 8(9), pp. 5554–5585. doi: 10.3390/ma8095265.
Linder, M. et al. (2015) 'A model-based approach for current voltage analyses to quantify degradation and fuel distribution in solid oxide fuel cell stacks', Journal of Power Sources, 288, pp. 409–418. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.04.136.
Pecho, O. et al. (2015) 'Influence of strontium-rich pore-filling phase on the performance of La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δ thin-film cathodes', Journal of Power Sources, 274, pp. 295–303. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.10.060.
Safa, Y. and Hocker, T. (2015) 'A validated energy approach for the post-buckling design of micro-fabricated thin film devices', Applied Mathematical Modelling, 39(2), pp. 483–499. doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2014.05.038.
Linder, M. et al. (2014) 'Model-based prediction of the ohmic resistance of metallic interconnects from oxide scale growth based on scanning electron microscopy', Journal of Power Sources, 272, pp. 595–605. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.08.098.
Safa, Y. et al. (2014) 'Post-buckling design of thin-film electrolytes in micro-solid oxide fuel cells', Journal of Power Sources, 250, pp. 332–342. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.10.125.
Gaiselmann, G. et al. (2014) 'Quantitative relationships between microstructure and effective transport properties based on virtual materials testing', AIChE Journal, 60(6), pp. 1983–1999. doi: 10.1002/aic.14416.
Holzer, L. et al. (2013) 'Redox cycling of Ni-YSZ anodes for solid oxide fuel cells: influence of tortuosity, constriction and percolation factors on the effective transport properties', Journal of Power Sources, 242, pp. 179–194. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.05.047.
Linder, M. et al. (2013) 'Cr2O3 scale growth rates on metallic interconnectors derived from 40,000 h solid oxide fuel cell stack operation', Journal of Power Sources, 243, pp. 508–518. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.05.200.
Gaiselmann, G. et al. (2013) 'Stochastic 3D modeling of La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δ cathodes based on structural segmentation of FIB–SEM images', Computational Materials Science, 67, pp. 48–62. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.08.030.
Meier, C. et al. (2012) 'Analyzing a micro-solid oxide fuel cell system by global energy balances', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37(13), pp. 10318–10327. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.04.009.
Nakajo, A. et al. (2012) 'Compilation of mechanical properties for the structural analysis of solid oxide fuel cell stacks : constitutive materials of anode-supported cells', Ceramics International, 38(5), pp. 3907–3927. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.01.043.
Evans, A. et al. (2012) 'Residual stress and buckling patterns of free-standing yttria-stabilized-zirconia membranes fabricated by pulsed laser deposition', Fuel Cells, 12(4), pp. 614–623. doi: 10.1002/fuce.201200028.
Holzer, L. et al. (2011) 'Quantitative relationships between composition, particle size, triple phase boundary length and surface area in nickel-cermet anodes for solid oxide fuel cells', Journal of Power Sources, 196(17), pp. 7076–7089. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.08.006.
Holzer, L. et al. (2011) 'Microstructure degradation of cermet anodes for solid oxide fuel cells : quantification of nickel grain growth in dry and in humid atmospheres', Journal of Power Sources, 196(3), pp. 1279–1294. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.08.017.
Kuebler, J. et al. (2010) 'Simulation and validation of thermo-mechanical stresses in planar SOFCs', Fuel Cells, 10(6), pp. 1066–1073. doi: 10.1002/fuce.201000040.
Bieberle-Hütter, A. et al. (2008) 'A micro-solid oxide fuel cell system as battery replacement', Journal of Power Sources, 177(1), pp. 123–130. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2007.10.092.
Gmür, R. et al. (2007) 'Impact of sensor packaging on analytical performance and power consumption of metal oxide based gas sensor microarrays', Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 127(1), pp. 107–111. doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2007.07.139.
Worlitschek, J., Hocker, T. and Mazzotti, M. (2005) 'Restoration of PSD from chord length distribution data using the method of projections onto convex sets', Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 22(2), pp. 81–98. doi: 10.1002/ppsc.200400872.
Hocker, T., Rajendran, A. and Mazzotti, M. (2003) 'Measuring and modeling supercritical adsorption in porous solids : carbon dioxide on 13X zeolite and on silica gel', Langmuir, 19(4), pp. 1254–1267. doi: 10.1021/la0266379.
Roos, M. et al. (2003) 'Efficient simulation of fuel cell stacks with the volume averaging method', Journal of Power Sources, 118(1–2), pp. 86–95. doi: 10.1016/S0378-7753(03)00066-1.
Rajendran, A. et al. (2002) 'Experimental observation of critical depletion : nitrous oxide adsorption on silica gel', Langmuir, 18(25), pp. 9726–9734. doi: 10.1021/la025696j.
Hocker, T., Aranovich, G. L. and Donohue, M. D. (2001) 'Adsorption-energy distribution of heterogeneous surfaces predicted by projections onto convex sets', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 238(1), pp. 167–176. doi: 10.1006/jcis.2001.7496.
Hocker, T. and Donohue, M. D. (2001) 'A simple model for solute partitioning and adsorption', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 244(1), pp. 9–17. doi: 10.1006/jcis.2001.7914.
Hocker, T., Aranovich, G. L. and Donohue, M. D. (1999) 'Monolayer adsorption of nonrandom mixtures', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 111(3), pp. 1240–1254. doi: 10.1063/1.479309.
Hocker, T., Aranovich, G. L. and Donohue, M. D. (1999) 'Monolayer adsorption for the subcritical lattice gas and partially miscible binary mixtures', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 211(1), pp. 61–80. doi: 10.1006/jcis.1998.5971.
Aranovich, G. L. et al. (1997) 'Nonrandom behavior in multicomponent lattice mixtures : effects of solute size and shape', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 106(24), pp. 10282–10291. doi: 10.1063/1.474065.

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

Marmet, P. et al. (2022) 'Composite conductivity of MIEC-based SOFC anodes : implications for microstructure optimization', in 15th European SOFC & SOE Forum 2022, Lucerne, Switzerland, 5-8 July 2022. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-26055.
Marmet, P. et al. (2020) 'Towards model-based optimization of CGO/Ni anodes', in 14th European SOFC & SOE Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland (online), 20-23 October 2020. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4556898.
Knaack, R. et al. (2019) 'Einsatz von 'Virtual Reality' in der Ausbildung von Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieuren', in Meissner, B. et al. (eds) Tagungsband zum 4. Symposium zur Hochschullehre in den MINT-Fächern. Nürnberg: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, pp. 176–183. Available at: https://www.didaktikzentrum.de/images/cwattachments/491_f1d8d1209f6ebde9058713d97ebf9d29.pdf.

Weitere Publikationen

Evans, A. et al. (2012) 'Residual stress and buckling patterns of yttria-stabilised-zirconia thin films for micro-solid oxide fuel cell membranes', in Mogensen, M. B. et al. (eds) Ionic and mixed conducting ceramics. Pennington: The Electrochemical Society, pp. 475–479. doi: 10.1149/1.3701338.
Linder, M. et al. (2011) 'Automated, model-based analysis of Uj-data for electrolyte-supported SOFC short-stacks', in 7th Symposium on Fuel Cell Modeling and Experimental Validation, Morges, 23-24 March 2010. Wiley, pp. 573–580. doi: 10.1002/fuce.201000132.
Safa, Y. and Hocker, T. (2009) 'Numerical simulation of reactive transport phenomena in the hexis SOFC-system', in Singhal, S. C. and Yokokawa, H. (eds) Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 11 (SOFC-XI). Pennington, pp. 1221–1230. doi: 10.1149/1.3205651.
Hocker, T. and Heinzelmann, E. (2004) 'FE-Modellierung von Brennstoffzellen', Technische Rundschau, 2004(5), p. 22.
Hocker, T. et al. (2003) 'Mikro- und Nanotechnologie am Center for Computational Physics', ZHWInfo, 17.
Di Giovanni, O. et al. (2002) 'Measuring and describing adsorption under supercritical conditions', in Kaneko, K. et al. (eds) Fundamentals of Adsorption 7 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fundamentals of Asorption, Nagasaki, 20–25 May, 2001. Chiba: IK International, pp. 672–679.
Hocker, T., Aranovich, G. L. and Donohue, M. D. (1997) 'Energy and entropy of mixing for a nonrandom mixture of monomers', in Stuchtrup, H. (ed.) Facetten der Thermodynamik : Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Professor Ingo Müller. Berlin: Technische Universität Berlin.