STAGING OF FUEL CELLS - PHASE II

Onnerud, Per ; Sriramulu, Suresh

Tiax LLC (United States)

关键词: Protons;    30 Direct Energy Conversion;    Simulation;    Water;    Design;   

DOI  :  10.2172/821879
RP-ID  :  NONE
RP-ID  :  FC26-00NT41001
RP-ID  :  821879

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

TIAX has executed a laboratory-based development program aiming at the improvement of stationary fuel cell systems. The two-year long development program resulted in an improved understanding of staged fuel cells and inorganic proton conductors through evaluation of results from a number of laboratory tasks: (1) Development of a fuel cell modeling tool--Multi-scale model was developed, capable of analyzing the effects of materials and operating conditions; and this model allowed studying various ''what-if'' conditions for hypothetically staged fuel cells; (2) Study of new high temperature proton conductor--TIAX discovery of a new class of sulfonated inorganics capable of conducting protons when exposed to water; and study involved synthesis and conductivity measurements of novel compounds up to 140 C; (3) Electrochemical fuel cell measurements--the feasibility of staged fuel cells was tested in TIAX's fuel cell laboratories experimental design was based on results from modeling.