 An experimental study of the interaction between tar and SOFCs with Ni/GDC anodesMing Liu, A. van der Kleij, A.H.M. Verkooijen and P.V. Aravind Applied Energy, 2013, vol. 108, issue C, 149-157 Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study of the effects of tar on the performance of SOFCs with Ni/GDC anodes. Various operating temperature levels (700, 800 and 900°C) under both dry and wet conditions were employed in this study. Polarization behavior, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and cell voltage degradation were analyzed to evaluate the cell performance. It is most likely that the cells with Ni/GDC anodes did not suffer from carbon deposition under the wet conditions studied. Dry tar-containing syngas for SOFCs is unlikely to cause carbon formation under a mild current load; however, it may induce carbon formation at open circuit. The effect of carbon dioxide that is capable of suppressing carbon deposition was experimentally investigated, and an enhanced performance was observed under the conditions studied. Under carbon risk-free operating conditions, the cell voltage increases when raising the feeding tar concentration, indicating that tar performs as fuel for SOFCs. Keywords: Tar; SOFC; Carbon deposition; Biomass gasification; Ni/GDC (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:appene:v:108:y:2013:i:c:p:149-157 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.03.020 Access Statistics for this article Applied Energy is currently edited by J. Yan More articles in Applied Energy from Elsevier |
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