fuel cells belong to an avant-garde technology family for a wide variety of applications including micro-power, transportation power, stationary power for buildings and other distributed generation applications. the first objective of this contribution is to find a suitable reduced model of a solid oxide fuel cell (sofc). the derived reduced model is then used to design a state estimator. in th...

This study describes an original method developed for the shaping of composite solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anodes including either nickel or copper as metal.

in this paper, a hybrid solid oxide fuel cell (sofc) and micro gas turbine (mgt) power system is parametrically studied to evaluate the effect of different operating conditions. the sofc/mgt power system includes sofc reactor, combustion chamber, compressor and turbine units, and two heat exchangers. the effects of fuel utilization, temperature, and pressure are assessed on performance of the h...

Cu–Mn foam provides reliable high-temperature electronic conduction paths via in situ phase transformation for large-scale solid oxide fuel cell stacks.

Micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells (µT-SOFCs) are suited to a broad range of applications with power demands ranging from few watts several hundred watts. µT-SOFCs possess inherently favourable characteristics over alternate configurations such as high thermo-mechanical stability, volumetric density and rapid start-up times, lending them particular value for use in portable applications. Effi...

The optimal operation of a solid oxide fuel cell stack is addressed in this paper. Real-time optimization, performed at a slow time scale via constraint adaptation, is used to account for uncertainty and degradation effects, while model-predictive control is performed at a faster time scale to reject process disturbances and to safely adapt the system to the specified output constraints followi...