- Title
- The effect of synthesis gas composition on the performance of Ni-based solid oxide fuel cells
- Creator
- Drewery, Matthew; Kennedy, Eric; Alenazey, Feraih; Dlugogorski, Bogdan; Stockenhuber, Michael
- Relation
- Chemical Engineering Research and Design Vol. 101, Issue September 2015, p. 22-26
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2015.07.008
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- An increased interest in using hydrocarbons in solid oxide fuel cells for the production of power has led to research into operation on synthesis (syn) gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Hydrocarbons are typically reformed, either internally or in an external reformer prior to the fuel cell, producing syngas with various H₂:CO ratios depending on the hydrocarbon used. This paper examines the effect of varying the H₂:CO ratio with respect to C₁ to C₄ steam reforming reactions and additionally a mixture containing a higher ratio of carbon monoxide. It was found that there was no significant relationship between cell performance and H₂:CO ratio when a high feed rate was employed. For low flow rates, however, the high carbon monoxide concentration resulted in a significant decrease in cell performance. It was determined that this was caused by reversible carbon deposition as opposed to a decrease in carbon monoxide reactivity.
- Subject
- solid oxide fuel cell; syngas; carbon monoxide
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1330451
- Identifier
- uon:26398
- Identifier
- ISSN:0263-8762
- Language
- eng
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