直接氨固体氧化物燃料电池

塑性挤压成型阳极支撑管,采用真空浸涂法在阳极表面制备了均一、致密的氧化钇稳定的氧化锆电解质层,然后在电解质表面刷涂上阴极层,成功制备了阳极支撑型管状固体氧化物燃料电池.分别以氢气和氨气为燃料,考察了该管状固体氧化物燃料电池的电池性能.在800℃操作时,以氢气和氨气为燃料的电池最大输出功率密度分别为202和200 mW/cm2.表明氨气可以作为固体氧化物燃料电池的替代燃料.     

以活性炭为燃料的固体氧化物燃料电池(英文)

采用注浆成型法制备了管状电解质支撑的固体氧化物燃料电池(SOFC),电解质材料为YSZ,阳极和阴极材料都采用银.将活性炭不加任何气体直接用作电池的燃料.电池的有效面积为2.5cm2,在800℃时给出最大功率为16mW,其开路电压随温度的变化与理论结果一致.此电池在30mA的恒电流下连续稳定运行了37h,通过电化学反应消耗了加入电池中碳燃料的42%(w),证明了电池的工作是可以自维持的.与使用石墨燃料的SOFC相比,此电池的运行稳定性得到了明显的提高,因为活性炭比石墨具有大得多的微孔率和表面积.电池运行37h后很快衰减,燃料烧结和燃料量减少造成碳表面积减小可能是衰减的主要原因.电化学阻抗谱测试结果表明电池的极化电阻在电池的总损耗中占主导.通过对电池反应机理进行分析,认为发生在阳极/电解质界面的CO电化学氧化反应和发生在碳燃料表面的Boudouard反应构成的循环维持了电池的运行,因此通过添加促进上述两个反应的催化剂,可提高电池的性能.     

直接硼氢化物燃料电池

直接硼氢化物燃料电池是一种新型的燃料电池，具有理论比能量高，产物清洁无污染，燃料易于储存和运输等特点，可广泛应用于小型便携式电子产品和移动电源,近年来受到越来越多研究者的关注。本文在介绍了直接硼氢化物燃料电池工作原理的基础上讨论了阳极催化剂、阴极催化剂的研究进展，并探讨了电解液和温度等条件对电池性能的影响，简要分析了发展直接硼氢化物燃料电池面临的主要问题。     

可用作便携式电源的高性能直接碳固体氧化物燃料电池组（英文）

报道了一种直接碳固体氧化物燃料电池(DC-SOFC)电池组。该电池组由3个单节管式电池串接而成。为使电池组能够承载更多的碳,阳极制备在管状电池的外壁。此三节电池组直接以碳为燃料,空气中的氧气为氧化剂运行。该电池组的有效面积为10.2 cm~2,以17 g负载5%(w)Fe的活性炭为燃料,800°C下的功率为4.1 W。电池组以1 A的恒电流放电19 h,放电容量为19 A?h,释放出31.6 W?h的电能。这种高容量的DC-SOFC可开发成便携式电源加以应用。     

千瓦级熔融碳酸盐燃料电池堆

1.5kW级熔融碳酸盐燃料电池（molten carbonate fuel cell,MCFC）堆由15个电极面积为250mm×400mm的单电池组成.系统采用内部分配方式供给气体,通过设在电池堆上、下部和四个侧面的电炉丝进行加热.在常压和650℃条件下,分别以氢气和空气作燃料和氧化剂,经过4次热循环,电池堆的开路电压依然保持在16.33V,在运行144h后,电池堆在150mAcm^-2放电时,其峰值输出功率为1.48kW,在工作电压10.5V（平均每个单电池的工作电压为0.7V）条件下输出功率基本不变,达到825W.     

中温固体氧化物燃料电池优势和挑战的简要评述

燃料电池是一种将燃料的化学能直接转化为电能的电化学发电装置. 在各种类型的燃料电池中,固体氧化物燃料电池（SOFC）在600~800 ^oC的中温区运行,因此与质子交换膜燃料电池等低温燃料电池相比,它的燃料选择范围更广,具有更广泛的应用前景. 然而,SOFC的商业应用面临着两大挑战：成本和稳定性. 这两种挑战与阳极、阴极、电解质、连接体和密封材料等组件的加工、制备、性能、化学和微结构稳定性密切相关. 电池堆的导管连接材料也需要经过仔细地筛选,以最大限度地降低有毒害的挥发性成分,从而确保电池结构的稳定和完整. 本文旨在简要评述SOFC的材料和组分的研究现状,并提出展望. 本文也对新一代SOFC技术面临的机遇和挑战进行了探讨.     

基于水溶性多金属氧酸盐的光催化燃料电池

以水溶性多金属氧酸盐作为光催化剂和电子载体构建了一种新型光催化燃料电池.该光催化燃料电池发生燃料的均相光催化降解反应,可实现在无光照情况下的持续放电.使用生物柴油副产物甘油作为燃料时,该光催化燃料电池的输出功率达0.24 m W/cm~2.在持续光照条件下,电池可长时间运转近50 h,电流稳定在0.75 m A/cm~2以上.甘油在电池中可持续循环放电,根据实际的反应程度可被转化为醛和酸,进一步氧化得到COx.对多种有机燃料的应用表明该光催化燃料电池具有广泛的适用性.     

乙烷质子传导膜燃料电池的极化与反应机理

制备了以乙烷作为燃料电池膜电极组装(MEA)及构建了单电池系统。研究了Nafion材料作为质子传导膜、Pt/C作为电极催化剂构成的燃料电池在105 ℃和0.4 MPa电化学性能。采用交流阻抗分析法、色谱分析法及根据Faraday定律,考察了电池的电极极化过程,确定了电池的反应产物并探讨了电极的电化学反应机理。研究结果表明,乙烷燃料电池内阻引起的欧姆极化很小,电池阴极的极化主要是欧姆极化过程所控制,阳极极化主要为活化和浓差过程控制,阳极极化比阴极极化显著,乙烷燃料电池的极化主要在阳极侧;在实验操作条件下,阴极反应产物为水,阳极反应的主产物为CO₂且含有少量的CO,电池反应产物不含乙烯。     

燃料电池中氢电极催化剂的研究

燃料电池是借助于电池内的燃烧反应，将化学能直接转为电能的装置，是一种新型的高效化学电源，是除火力、水力、核能之外的第四种发电方式。对燃料电池，性能良好的催化剂至关重要，它决定着大电流密度放电时的电池性能、运行寿命和成本。燃料电池的催化剂应该满足以下条...     

固体氧化物燃料电池电化学阻抗谱差异化研究方法和分解

电化学阻抗谱技术(EIS)在固体氧化物燃料电池(SOFC)中已获得广泛应用。在EIS分析过程中,研究者能够清楚地获得燃料电池内部因纯离子(电子)导电引起的欧姆电阻和因电化学过程、扩散作用引起的极化阻抗的大小,但是对于极化阻抗的构成缺乏进一步解析。本文选用传统的Ni-YSZ阳极支撑电池,通过改变测试温度、阳极运行气氛和阴极运行气氛,设计了一套完整的阻抗差异分析(ADIS)实验。并基于弛豫时间分布法(DRT)和阻抗差异分析法,系统地分析并解释了阻抗谱中各频率段对应阻抗的物理或(电)化学含义,将该类型电池阻抗谱以6个RQ并联电路予以拟合,为之后燃料电池性能稳定性的研究奠定基础。     

可用作便携式电源的高性能直接碳固体氧化物燃料电池组

A direct carbon solid oxide fuel cell (DC-SOFC) stack was prepared with 3 tubular cells electrically connected in series. To increase carbon storage in the stack, the anode was fabricated outside the tubular cells so that carbon fuel can be loaded at the exterior of the stack, which is more spacious than the interior. The 3-cell-stack is operated directly with carbon as the fuel and oxygen in ambient air as the oxidant. With a total effective area of 10.2 cm² and a 5% (w) Fe-loaded activated carbon fuel of 17 g, the stack reveals a peak power of 4.1 W at 800℃. The stack discharged at a constant current of 1.0 A for 19 h, giving a charge capacity of 19 A·h and an energy capacity of 31.6 W·h, which are much higher than those of a similar stack with anode on the inside and carbon loaded at the interior. The high capacity of our DC-SOFC opens up potential applications in portable devices.     

周期性负载变化提高乙醇燃料电池效率(英文)

We present a simple method to increase the efficiency of a direct ethanol fuel cell by a periodic modulation of the load(pulsed mode). The fuel cell was periodically short circuited with a resistor(1 Ω) for a few seconds(high load period) followed by a low load period of up to 100 s when the resistor was disconnected. The open circuit voltage(OCV) values before and after the short circuit of the cell showed an increase of up to 70 mV. The higher OCV was due to the oxidation and removal of strongly adsorbed CO during the electric short circuit when the electric potential of the anode was increased to be close to the cathode potential. The depoisoned anode surface was much more active directly after the short circuit. The slow decrease of the OCV observed after the short circuit was caused by the subsequent poisoning of the anode surface, which can be neutralized by another short circuit. In general, a stable increase in cell performance was obtained by repetition of the electric short circuit. The data showed that the pulse mode gave an increase in the power generated by the direct ethanol fuel cell by up to 51% and was 6% on average. It is anticipated that this mode of operation can be used also in different types of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells where CO poisoning is a problem, and after optimization of the parameters, a much higher gain in efficien-cy can be obtained.     

Effect of the fuel electrode composition and structure on the performance of the direct methanol fuel cell

The effect the composition and structure of the active layer of the anode exerts on the performance of the solid-polymer direct methanol fuel cell is studied experimentally. It is shown that the ohmic voltage losses in the layer and the content of the solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) play an important role. The performance of the fuel cells is the best at 20–25 vol % SPE in the layer.     

乙二醇基冷却液污染对质子交换膜燃料电池电堆的影响及恢复措施

冷却液作为燃料电池冷却系统的热传导介质,对于燃料电池电堆的热管理非常重要。在实际应用中经常会发生冷却液泄漏进入电堆内部的情况。本文通过模拟燃料电池发动机正常工作过程中冷却液泄漏的不同情况,研究了乙二醇基冷却液泄漏污染对燃料电池电堆的性能影响。针对阴极侧乙二醇基冷却液污染后难以恢复的问题,本文提出了一种冷却液污染的恢复策略。整个污染恢复策略分为污染物氧化和污染物冲洗两个阶段,通过对比冷却液污染前和污染恢复后的性能,证实了这种冷却液污染恢复策略的有效性。     

A passive microfluidic hydrogen-air fuel cell with exceptional stability and high performance

We describe an advanced microfluidic hydrogen-air fuel cell (FC) that exhibits exceptional durability and high performance, most notably yielding stable output power (>100 days) without the use of an anode-cathode separator membrane. This FC embraces an entirely passive device architecture and, unlike conventional microfluidic designs that exploit laminar hydrodynamics, no external pumps are used to sustain or localize the reagent flow fields. The devices incorporate high surface area/porous metal and metal alloy electrodes that are embedded and fully immersed in liquid electrolyte confined in the channels of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)-based microfluidic network. The polymeric network also serves as a self-supporting membrane through which oxygen and hydrogen are supplied to the cathode and alloy anode, respectively, by permeation. The operational stability of the device and its performance is strongly dependent on the nature of the electrolyte used (5 M H2SO4 or 2.5 M NaOH) and composition of the anode material. The latter choice is optimized to decrease the sensitivity of the system to oxygen cross-over while still maintaining high activity towards the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR). Three types of high surface area anodes were tested in this work. These include: high-surface area electrodeposited Pt (Pt); high-surface area electrodeposited Pd (Pd); and thin palladium adlayers supported on a "porous" Pt electrode (Pd/Pt). The FCs display their best performance in 5 M H2SO4 using the Pd/Pt anode. This exceptional stability and performance was ascribed to several factors, namely: the high permeabilities of O2, H2, and CO2 in PDMS; the inhibition of the formation of insoluble carbonate species due to the presence of a highly acidic electrolyte; and the selectivity of the Pd/Pt anode toward the HOR. The stability of the device for long-term operation was modeled using a stack of three FCs as a power supply for a portable display that otherwise uses a 3 V battery.     

Substrate cross-conduction effect on the performance of serially connected microbial fuel cell stack

This study presented a new design of scalable, air-cathode microbial fuel cell (MFC) stack that shared a common fuel feed passage. As two individual cells were electrically connected in series by metal wires and hydraulically joined by conductive substrate flow, the performance degradation phenomenon was observed. The open circuit voltage (OCV) and low current behavior of stacked MFC were lower than should be expected. This energy loss was proposed to be a consequence of parasitic current flow due to the substrate cross-conduction effect and can be likely minimized through controlling the distance between the anode electrodes or/and the cross-sectional area of substrate flow. The unique and simple water distribution system of the tubular MFC stack would contribute to the further scale-up and implementation of MFC technologies, especially for wastewater treatment.     

Effects of low hydrocarbons on the solid oxide fuel cell anode

In this work, the effects of ethylene on the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anode were investigated both for an SOFC single cell and an SOFC stack. Two fuels were used to observe the effects that low hydrocarbons (over C1-hydrocarbons) in the reformate gas stream have on the SOFC anode. Methane or ethylene was supplied to the electrolyte-supported SOFC anode. Using ethylene as a fuel, catastrophic degradation of SOFC performance was observed due to ethylene-induced carbon deposition onto the SOFC anode. Thus, a new methodology, termed “post-reforming,” is introduced for the removal of low hydrocarbons (over C1-hydrocarbons) from the reformate gas stream. The CGO-Ru catalyst was selected as the post-reforming catalyst because of its high selectivity for removing low hydrocarbons (over C1-hydrocarbons) and for its long-term stability. The diesel reformer and post-reformer were continuously operated for ∼250 h in coupled-operation mode. The reforming performance was not degraded, and low hydrocarbons (over C1-hydrocarbons) in the diesel reformate were completely removed.     

Solid oxide fuel cells with both high voltage and power output by utilizing beneficial interfacial reaction

An intriguing cell concept by applying proton-conducting oxide as the ionic conducting phase in the anode and taking advantage of beneficial interfacial reaction between anode and electrolyte is proposed to successfully achieve both high open circuit voltage (OCV) and power output for SOFCs with thin-film samarium doped ceria (SDC) electrolyte at temperatures higher than 600 °C. The fuel cells were fabricated by conventional route without introducing an additional processing step. A very thin and dense interfacial layer (2-3 μm) with compositional gradient was created by in situ reaction between anode and electrolyte although the anode substrate had high surface roughness (>5 μm), which is, however, beneficial for increasing triple phase boundaries where electrode reactions happen. A fuel cell with Ni-BaZr(0.4)Ce(0.4)Y(0.2)O(3) anode, thin-film SDC electrolyte and Ba(0.5)Sr(0.5)Co(0.8)Fe(0.2)O(3-δ) (BSCF) cathode has an OCV as high as 1.022 V and delivered a power density of 462 mW cm(-2) at 0.7 V at 600 °C. It greatly promises an intriguing fuel cell concept for efficient power generation.     

硬模板法制备固体氧化物燃料电池Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x包覆管状SDC立体阳极

为在固体氧化物燃料电池中有效利用干甲烷为燃料,需制作多孔立体阳极。采用硬模板法和浸渍法制备Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x包覆管状SDC阳极材料(Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x/SDC),为作对比,用溶胶凝胶法制备粉末状Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x,机械混合SDC粉末制备Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x-SDC。将这两种阳极材料分别制作电解质支撑的单电池Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x/SDC|YSZ|LSMYSZ与Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x-SDC|YSZ|LSM-YSZ,并进行发电性能测试以及长期稳定性实验。结果表明,800℃下,干甲烷环境中,Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x-SDC为阳极的单电池最大功率密度为324.99 m W/cm2,运行10 h后,电压下降5.60%;而以Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x/SDC为阳极的单电池最大功率密度达到384.54 m W/cm2,运行100 h后,电压未严重衰减。实验后阳极的SEM照片表明,Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x-SDC阳极内孔隙狭小,易被积炭堵塞;而Ni_(0.5)Cu_(0.5)Ba_(0.05)O_x/SDC阳极呈立体多孔结构,有利于燃料气体与反应后气体的扩散。催化剂颗粒均匀地包覆在SDC纤维管表面,有利于增加三相界面,提高电池的稳定性。