Strategies for Carbon and Sulfur Tolerant Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials, Incorporating Lessons from Heterogeneous Catalysis

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are a rapidly emerging energy technology for a low carbon world, providing high efficiency, potential to use carbonaceous fuels, and compatibility with carbon capture and storage. However, current state-of-the-art materials have low tolerance to sulfur, a common contam...

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Published inChemical reviews Vol. 116; no. 22; pp. 13633 - 13684
Main Authors Boldrin, Paul, Ruiz-Trejo, Enrique, Mermelstein, Joshua, Bermúdez Menéndez, José Miguel, Ramı́rez Reina, Tomás, Brandon, Nigel P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Chemical Society 23.11.2016
Subjects
Carbon
Carbon sequestration
Catalysis
Clean technology
Poisoning
Solid oxide fuel cells
Sulfur
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Summary:Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are a rapidly emerging energy technology for a low carbon world, providing high efficiency, potential to use carbonaceous fuels, and compatibility with carbon capture and storage. However, current state-of-the-art materials have low tolerance to sulfur, a common contaminant of many fuels, and are vulnerable to deactivation due to carbon deposition when using carbon-containing compounds. In this review, we first study the theoretical basis behind carbon and sulfur poisoning, before examining the strategies toward carbon and sulfur tolerance used so far in the SOFC literature. We then study the more extensive relevant heterogeneous catalysis literature for strategies and materials which could be incorporated into carbon and sulfur tolerant fuel cells.
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ISSN:0009-2665
1520-6890
DOI:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00284