Direct carbon fuel cell operation on brown coal

Adam C. Rady, Sarbjit Giddey, Aniruddha Kulkarni, Sukhvinder P.S. Badwal, Sankar Bhattacharya and Bradley P. Ladewig

Applied Energy, 2014, vol. 120, issue C, 56-64

Abstract: The performance of a Victorian brown coal with minimal pre-treatment was assessed in a solid oxide electrolyte based direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) at 700 and 800°C. In order to evaluate the effect of inherent inorganic species in the coal on the electrochemical performance of DCFCs (voltage – power density – current density), characteristics of button cells fuelled with raw and acid washed (demineralised) coal were compared along with commercially available XC72 carbon black. Peak power densities of 65 and 67mWcm−2 were observed for demineralised coal char and carbon black respectively at 800°C, whereas the raw coal char achieved a superior power density of 89mWcm−2. The availability of reactive species at the anode, namely CO, is believed to be the primary differentiator of cell performance, and is related to variations in the physical and chemical makeup of carbon fuels. The reactivity of these fuels in the presence of CO2 to generate CO (and power) via Boudouard gasification was assessed in the 700–800°C temperature range via thermogravimetric analysis.

Keywords: DCFC; Fuel cell; Demineralised coal; Brown coal; Lignite; Char (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.046

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