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Effect of sintering additives on barium cerate based solid oxide electrolysis cell for syngas production from carbon dioxide and steam
(2018-05-01)
Likhittaphon, S.
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Pukkrueapun, T.
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Seeharaj, P.
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Wetwathana Hartley, U.
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Laosiripojana, N.
The effect of sintering additives (NiO, Co<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf>, and ZnO) on the performance of barium-cerate-based solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) is investigated. The performance of the SOEC with different sintering additives is determined in terms of relative density, electrochemical performance, and catalytic activity toward reverse water gas shift reaction. BaCeO<inf>3</inf> (BC) and BaCe<inf>0.9</inf>Gd<inf>0.1</inf>O<inf>3−δ</inf> (BCG) are synthesized using conventional precipitation method, comparing to ultrasonic-assisted precipitation. The sintering additives promote both densification and grain growth. The relative density of the BCG without sintering additive is 69% while that of the BCG with 1 wt% of Co<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf>, NiO and ZnO is 95%, 95% and 88%, respectively. The SEM images indicate that the BCG with sintering additives exhibits dense grains with relatively large grain size. Although the BGC with NiO and Co<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf> exhibit maximum relative density, the sample with ZnO shows relatively highest conductivity with the lowest activation energy of conduction and the sample with NiO provides the largest CO yield and CO<inf>2</inf> conversion. The activation energy of conduction is found to be 375.41, 70.06, 66.86 and 61.80 kJ mol−1 for BCG, BCG with 1 wt% Co<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf>, NiO and ZnO, respectively. The BCG with 1 wt% NiO provides the highest CO<inf>2</inf> conversion and CO yield at temperature below 700 °C (62% CO<inf>2</inf> conversion and 32% CO yield at 700 °C). Temperature program of oxidation (TPO) reveals that carbon deposition can cause the low CO yield at the operating temperature above 700 °C.
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Performance of ethanol-fuelled solid oxide fuel cells: Proton and oxygen ion conductors
(2007-09-15)
Jamsak, W.
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Assabumrungrat, S.
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Douglas, P. L.
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Laosiripojana, N.
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Suwanwarangkul, R.
This paper investigates the performance of ethanol-fuelled solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) with two types of solid electrolytes, namely oxygen ion-conducting (SOFC-O2-) and proton-conducting electrolytes (SOFC-H+). Our previous work reported that the SOFC-H+ shows superior theoretical performance over the SOFC-O2- electrolyte. However, in this work when all resistances are taken into account, the actual performance of the SOFC-O2- (Ni-YSZ|YSZ|YSZ-LSM) becomes significantly better than that of SOFC-H+ (Pt|SCY|Pt). The maximum power density of the SOFC-O2- is about 34 times higher than that of the SOFC-H+ when operated at an inlet H<inf>2</inf>O:EtOH ratio of 3, a fuel utilization factor of 80% and a temperature of 1200 K. Then the required values of the total resistance of the SOFC-H+ to achieve the same power density as the SOFC-O2- were determined. It was found that due to the superior theoretical performance of the SOFC-H+, it is not necessary to reduce the SOFC-H+ total resistance to the same values as the one for SOFC-O2-. The study also indicates that reduction of only the electrolyte resistance is not sufficient to improve the SOFC-H+ performance and, therefore, the other resistances including activation, electrodes and interconnect resistances need to be reduced simultaneously. Finally, the improvement of the electrolyte resistance by changing its resistivity and thickness is discussed. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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