Improved Redox and Thermal Cycling Resistant Tubular Ceramic Fuel Cells

A new generation of tubular SOFCs with an approach to solve the thermal and redox cycling issues of these fuel cells is introduced and the method of fabrication is explained. The cell consists of a porous support coated with a thin electrolyte. Following porous support infiltration of Ni-SDC to crea...

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Published inECS transactions Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 409 - 418
Main Authors Hanifi, Amir R., Torabi, Alireza, Zazulak, Mark, Etsell, Thomas H., Yamarte, Luis, Sarkar, Partha, Tucker, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2011
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Summary:A new generation of tubular SOFCs with an approach to solve the thermal and redox cycling issues of these fuel cells is introduced and the method of fabrication is explained. The cell consists of a porous support coated with a thin electrolyte. Following porous support infiltration of Ni-SDC to create the anode, 100 thermal and 10 redox cycling tests were carried out. The cell shows extremely high failure resistance to the thermal and redox cycling as confirmed by unaltered OCV values. SEM analysis shows a crack free anode microstructure and electrolyte.
ISSN:1938-5862
1938-6737
DOI:10.1149/1.3570016