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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346866803321

Autore

Kromp Alexander

Titolo

Model-based Interpretation of the Performance and Degradation of Reformate Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013

ISBN

1000034160

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (III, 120 p. p.)

Collana

Schriften des Instituts für Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie / Institut für Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Solid oxide fuel cells offer great prospects for the sustainable, clean and safe conversion of various fuels into electrical energy. In this thesis, the performance-determining loss processes for the cell operation on reformate fuels are elucidated via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Model-based analyses reveal the electrochemical fuel oxidation mechanism, the coupling of fuel gas transport and reforming chemistry and the impact of fuel impurities on the degradation of each loss process.