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非常に耐久性があり,コクシングと硫黄に耐性があり,燃料に柔軟なプロトンセラミック燃料電池
Chuancheng Duan1, Robert J Kee2, Huayang Zhu2
1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. cduan@mines.edu.
Nature
|May 11, 2018
まとめ
プロトニックセラミック燃料電池は,炭化水素やアンモニアを含む様々な燃料で,最小限の分解で6,000時間以上効率的に動作する優れた耐久性と燃料の柔軟性を示しています. これは彼らの商業的可能性を強調しています.
科学分野:
- 電気化学
- 材料科学
- エネルギー変換
背景:
- プロトニックセラミック燃料電池 (PCFC) は水素と炭化水素燃料で高い効率を提供します.
- 固体酸化物燃料電池 (SOFC) は,炭化水素の直接使用でコクシングや硫黄中毒などの課題に直面しています.
- 炭化水素を燃料とするPCFCの長期耐久性に関する研究は限られている.
研究 の 目的:
- PCFCの長期耐久性と燃料柔軟性を体系的に評価する.
- リアルな運用条件下で様々な燃料でPCFCの性能を評価する.
- PCFCに対するコクシングと硫黄中毒の影響を調査する.
主な方法:
- 長期にわたるPCFC試験で 6,000時間以上
- 水素,メタン,天然ガス,プロパン,ブタンイソマー,イソオクタン,メタノール,エタノール,アンモニアなど11種類の燃料を使用した.
- 硫化水素への曝露を含む500~600°Cの温度で稼働した電池
主要な成果:
- ほとんどの燃料で1000時間あたり1.5%未満の劣化で実証された例外的な耐久性.
- 何千時間もの連続操作の後でさえ,コクシングは観察されなかった.
- PCFCは温度変動を許容し,商業用燃料レベルでの硫黄中毒に対する耐性を示した.
結論:
- PCFCは驚くべき燃料の柔軟性と長期的な安定性を発揮し,炭化水素の利用において従来のSOFCを上回ります.
- この技術は,その強さと効率性により,商業的な応用において大きな希望を示しています.
- PCFCは,既存の燃料電池技術の主要な限界を克服し,クリーンなエネルギー発電のための実行可能な代替手段です.
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