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Liangzhu Zhu1,2, Chris Cadigan3, Chuancheng Duan4
1Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. zhuliangzhu@nimte.ac.cn.
Abstract:
The intermediate operating temperatures (~400-600 °C) of reversible protonic ceramic fuel cells (RePCFC) permit the potential use of ammonia as a carbon-neutral high energy density fuel and energy storage medium. Here we show fabrication of anode-supported RePCFC with an ultra-dense (~100%) and thin (4 μm) protonic ceramic electrolyte layer. When coupled to a novel Ru-(BaO)2(CaO)(Al2O3) (Ru-B2CA) reversible ammonia catalyst, maximum fuel-cell power generation reaches 877 mW cm-2 at 650 °C under ammonia fuel. We report relatively stable operation at 600 °C for up to 1250 h under ammonia fuel. In fuel production mode, ammonia rates exceed 1.2 × 10-8 NH3 mol cm-2 s-1at ambient pressure with H2 from electrolysis only, and 2.1 × 10-6 mol NH3 cm-2 s-1 at 12.5 bar with H2 from both electrolysis and simulated recycling gas.
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