Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology: Recent submissions
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Optimizing the Performance of a Single PEM Fuel Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A three-dimensional steady-state electrochemical mathematical model is developed where the mass, fluid, and thermal transport processes are considered, as well as the electrochemical reaction ... -
Development of Porous Electrode Gas Diffusion Layers for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The aim of this work was to develop a porous film structure for an electrode gas diffusion layer (GDL) used for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). This film was made from a matrix ... -
Publisher's Note: “Yttrium-Doped Barium Zirconates as Ceramic Conductors in the Intermediate Temperature Range” [Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 2008, 5(1), p. 011003]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper, which is part of the present special issue, was published in the February 2008 issue of the Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1. -
Impact of Residential Fuel Cell System Parameters on Its Economic Assessment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This study evaluates different fuel cell system configurations for residential applications from an economic standpoint. The evaluation is made using a Monte Carlo simulation for different building ... -
Infrared Thermography and Thermoelectrical Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)One of the most challenging problems in SOFC is the thermal compatibility of materials. Mechanical failure, or cathode delamination induced performance degradation, is related to local heat ... -
Combination of Biological Processes and Fuel Cells to Harvest Solar Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Biomass production by micro-algae is by a factor of 10 more efficient than by plants, by which an economic process of solar energy harvesting can be established. Owing to the very low dry ... -
Interconnection and Sealing Using Silver Metal for Honeycomb SOFCs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)An interconnection and sealing method used for stacking the electrolyte-supported honeycomb solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is presented. The honeycombs were made of 3mol% yttria partially stabilized ... -
High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Auxiliary Power Unit Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)High power density (HPD) solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) possess the attributes of reduced ohmic polarization and greater active area per unit volume, relative to current state-of-the-art cylindrical ... -
Development of Microtubular SOFCs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Microtubular solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have successfully demonstrated their advantages over conventional (planar) SOFCs, such as high thermal stability during rapid heat cycling and large ... -
Reactivity of LaNi0.6Fe0.4O3 With Samaria Doped Ceria
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)LaNi0.6Fe0.4O3 (LNF) is one of the promising cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells, but reacts with a zirconia-based electrolyte. To prevent this undesirable reaction, a ceria phase has been ... -
Ni–Fe Alloy-Supported Intermediate Temperature SOFCs Using LaGaO3 Electrolyte Film for Quick Startup
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which are highly tolerant against a thermal cycle, are studied by using the Ni–Fe porous alloy substrate prepared by an in situ reduction. ... -
The First China-Japan Workshop on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The worldwide interest in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) has multiplied since the year of 2000; however, their development is facing various technical challenges in materials, design, manufacturing ... -
Investigation on the Power Generation and Electrolysis Behavior of Ni-YSZ∕YSZ∕LSM Cell in Reformate Fuel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The bigger drop of open circuit voltage (OCV) for a degraded or damaged cell unit will make it consume the electricity generated by other cells of the solid oxide fuel cell stack to electrolyze ... -
Preparation of a 3DOM Ni–YSZ Anode With a Dense YSZ Thin Electrolyte Layer for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A three-dimensionally ordered macroporous (3DOM) Ni–yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) anode with a YSZ thin electrolyte layer was developed by a colloidal crystal templating method in order to ... -
Ce0.8M0.2O2−δ(M=Mn,Fe,Ni,Cu) as SOFC Anodes for Electrochemical Oxidation of Hydrogen and Methane
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Oxide anodes such as doped ceria offer improved tolerance for nonidealities in anode environment such as redox cycles, sulfur and other poisons, and hydrocarbons. Mixed-valence transition element ... -
The Development of Thermally Stable Sealing Glass in the BaO–B2O3–SiO2 System for Planar SOFC Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The purpose of the present paper is to study the influence of glass composition on the thermal stability in the SiO2–B2O3–BaO system, and three glasses were consequently investigated. Although ... -
Thermochemical Stability of Sulfur Compounds in Fuel Cell Gases Related to Fuel Impurity Poisoning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Since sulfur compounds are the major poisons of fuel cell systems, equilibrium concentrations of minor sulfur-based impurities in fuel cell fuels are thermochemically calculated in the temperature ... -
Development of Evaluation Technologies for Microtubular SOFCs Under Pressurized Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)We developed evaluation technologies for microtubular solid oxide fuel cells under pressurized conditions. The pressurized cell evaluation system for the single cell was produced. The chamber ... -
La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3–Ag Composite Cathode for Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The composite electrode of La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3 (LSCF) and Ag was examined as an air electrode for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. Two types of LSCF/Ag composite electrodes were ... -
A Low-Order Dynamic Model for Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using Online Iterative Computation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)High-fidelity dynamic models of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) capture the spatial distribution of key performance variables by considering the cells as distributed parameter systems. As such, ...