The Zero Emission Coal Alliance (ZECA) is developing an integrated zero emission process that will generate clean energy carriers (electricity or hydrogen) from coal. The process exothermically gasifies coal using hydrogen to produce a methane rich intermediate state. The methane is subsequently reformed using water and a CaO based sorbent. The sorbent supplies the energy needed to drive the re...

a set of multicomponent perovskite oxide nanoparticles based on la1-xsrxco1-yfeyo3-δ(lscf) were prepared by a simple chemical precipitation method for application in low temperature solid oxide fuel cells (lt-sofc) as cathode materials.  the precursor materials used in this synthesis were lanthanum nitrate hexahydrate [la(no3)3.6h2o], strontium nitrate [sr(no3)2], cobalt nitrate hexahydrate [co...

Nanocrystallite ceria-doped scandia-stabilized zirconia (1Ce10ScSZ) powders are prepared using a combination of co-precipitation and hydrothermal treatments. Power density of 1.0 W cm(-2) is obtained at 1.6 A cm(-2) and 800 °C due to the drastic reduction of ohmic and polarization resistance in the SOFC cell.

SERS provided by sputtered silver was employed to detect trace amounts of chemical species on SOFC electrodes. Considerable enhancement of Raman signal and lowered detection threshold were shown for coked nickel surfaces, CeO(2) coatings, and cathode materials (LSM and LSCF), suggesting a viable approach to probing electrode degradation and surface catalytic mechanism.

It was shown about 25 years ago that solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) could also work in the solid oxide electrolyser cell (SOEC) mode. Electrolysis of both water (steam) and CO2 was demonstrated. During the 1990'ies very little electrolysis work was reported in the open literature, whereas an enormous amount of results on the SOFC R&D appeared. Recently, the increasing interest in hydrogen produc...

The unique and beneficial characteristics of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology hold much promise for their eventual widespread adoption in numerous commercial building applications. Nevertheless, cost durability challenges remain that currently limit SOFC penetration stationary energy Under the U.S. DOE ARPA-E INTEGRATE program, Colorado School Mines its partners are developing a novel hy...

A new strategy to reduce the operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is needed foster progress developing high-performance and stable SOFC as a solution thermal stress degradation components induced by high-temperature SOFC. The use lithium (Li) cathode can increase cell’s efficiency, it allows for faster ion transport higher reaction rate. This study presents an attractive approa...