Conventional Ni/yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) fuel electrode supported solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) demonstrate acceptable long-term durability when operated at below -1 A/cm2. These suffer however severe degradation above A/cm2, where a large part of the cell resistance increase is associated with Ni/YSZ electrode. In this work, by introducing Ce0.8Gd0.2O2-d (CGO) nanoparticles in...

This paper presents a hydrogen powered hybrid solid oxide fuel cell-steam turbine (SOFC-ST) system and studies its optimal operating conditions. This type of installation can be very appropriate to complement the intermittent generation of renewable energies, such as wind generation. A dynamic model of an alternative hybrid SOFC-ST configuration that is especially suited to work with hydrogen i...

Semicritical medical devices are defined as items that come into contact with mucous membranes or nonintact skin (eg, gastrointestinal endoscopes, endocavitary probes). Such medical devices minimally require high-level disinfection. Because many of these items are temperature sensitive, low-temperature chemical methods are usually used rather than steam sterilization. Strict adherence to curren...

This paper presents steam temperature models for steam distillation pilot-scale (SDPS) by comparing Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) versus Multi-Sine (M-Sine) perturbation signal Both perturbation signals were applied to nonlinear steam distillation system to study the capability of these input signals in exciting nonlinearity of system dynamics. In this work, both linear and nonlinear ARX...