Chapter 1 Introduction to Stationary Fuel Cells |
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1.1 General Introduction to Fuel Cells |
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1.2 Introduction to Low-Temperature Fuel Cells |
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1.3 Introduction to Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
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1.3.1 Classification of SOFC Systems |
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1.3.2 Fuel Options for SOFC |
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1.4 Integrated SOFC Systems |
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1.6.2 Results and Discussion |
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Chapter 2 Electrolyte Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) |
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2.1 A General Introduction to Electrolyte of SOFCs |
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2.2 The Requirements of Electrolyte |
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2.3 Classification of Electrolytes |
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2.3.1 Oxygen-ion Conducting Electrolyte |
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2.3.2 Proton-conducting Electrolyte |
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2.3.3 Dual-phase Composite Electrolyte |
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Chapter 3 Cathode Material Development |
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3.2 Cathodes for Oxygen Ion-Conducting Electrolyte Based SOFCs |
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3.2.1 Electron Conducting Cathodes |
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3.2.2 Mixed Oxygen Ion-Electron Conducting Cathodes |
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3.2.3 Microstructure Optimized Cathodes |
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3.2.4 Cathode Reaction Mechanisms |
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3.3 Cathodes for Proton-Conducting Electrolyte Based SOFCs |
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3.3.1 Electron-Conducting Cathodes |
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3.3.2 Mixed Oxygen Ion-Electron Conducting Cathodes |
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3.3.3 Mixed Electron-Proton Conducting Cathodes |
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3.3.4 Microstructure Optimized Cathodes |
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3.3.5 Cathode Reaction Mechanisms |
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3.4 Summary and Conclusions |
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Chapter 4 Anode Material Development |
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4.1 Required Properties of Anode Materials |
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4.3.1 Conventional Ni/YSZ Anodes |
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4.4 Higher Hydrocarbon Fuels (Propane and Butane) |
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4.5.1 Biomass-Simulated Gas |
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4.5.2 Biomass - Actual Gas |
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Chapter 5 Interconnect Materials for SOFC Stacks |
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5.2 Lanthanum Chromites as Interconnect |
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5.2.3 Gas Tightness, Processing and Chemical Stability |
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5.2.4 Other Ceramic Interconnect |
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5.3 Metallic Alloys as Interconnect |
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5.3.1 Selection of Metallic Materials |
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5.3.2 Problems for Metallic Materials as Interconnect |
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5.3.3 Interconnect Coatings |
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5.3.4 Applications of Metallic Interconnects |
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Chapter 6 Nano-structured Electrodes of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Infiltration |
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6.2.2 Factors Affecting Infiltration Process and Microstructure |
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6.3 Nano-structured Electrodes |
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6.3.1 Performance Promotion Factor |
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6.3.2 Nano-structured Cathodes |
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6.3.3 Nano-structured Anodes |
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6.4 Microstructure and Microstructural Stability of Nano-structured Electrodes |
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6.4.1 Microstructure Effect |
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6.4.2 Microstructural Stability of Nano-structured Electrodes |
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6.5 Electrocatalytic Effects of Infiltrated Nanoparticles |
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Chapter 7 Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes |
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7.1 The Importance of 3D Characterisation and the Limitations of Stereology |
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7.2 Focused Ion Beam Characterisation |
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7.2.1 The FIB-SEM Instrument |
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7.2.2 Application of FIB-SEM Techniques to SOFC Materials |
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7.3 Microstructural Characterisation using X-rays |
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7.3.1 X-ray Microscopy and Tomography |
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7.3.2 Lab X-ray Instruments |
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7.3.3 Synchrotron X-ray Instruments |
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7.3.4 4-Dimensional Tomography |
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7.4 Data Analysis and Image Based Modelling |
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7.4.2 Image Based Modelling |
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Chapter 8 Three-Dimensional Numerical Modelling of Ni-YSZ Anode |
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8.2.1 Button Cell Experiment |
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8.2.2 Microstructure Reconstruction Using FIB-SEM |
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8.3.1 Quantification of Microstructural Parameters |
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8.3.2 Governing Equations for Polarization Simulation |
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8.3.3 Computational Scheme |
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8.4 Results and Discussions |
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Chapter 9 Multi-scale Modelling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
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9.1 Introduction and Motivation |
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9.2 Modelling Methodologies: From the Atomistic to the System Scale |
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9.2.2 Molecular Level: Atomistic Modelling |
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9.2.3 Electrode Level (I): Electrochemistry with Mean-field Elementary Kinetics |
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9.2.4 Electrode Level (II): Porous Mass and Charge Transport |
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9.2.5 Cell Level: Coupling of Electrochemistry with Mass, Charge and Heat Transport |
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9.2.6 Stack Level: Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Design |
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9.3 Bridging the Gap Between Scales |
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9.4 Multi-scale Models for SOFC System Simulation and Control |
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9.4.1 Pressurized SOFC System for a Hybrid Power Plant |
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9.4.2 Tubular SOFC System for Mobile APU Applications |
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Chapter 10 Fuel Cells Running on Alternative Fuels |
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10.2 Fuel Cell Reactor Set-up |
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10.3 SOFCs Running on Sourgas |
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10.4 SOFCs Running on C2H6 and C3H8 |
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10.4.1 Development of Electrolyte of PC-SOFCs |
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10.4.2 Development of Anode Materials of PC-SOFCs |
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10.5 SOFCs Running on Syngas Containing H2S |
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10.6 SOFCs Running on Pure H2S |
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Chapter 11 Long Term Operating Stability |
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11.2 Durability of Stacks/Systems |
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11.2.1 Determination of Stack Performance |
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11.2.2 Performance Degradation and Materials Deteriorations |
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11.2.3 Impurities and their Poisoning Effects on Electrode Reactivity |
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11.3 Deteriorations of Electrolytes |
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11.3.1 Destabilization of Mn Dissolved YSZ |
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11.3.2 Conductivity Decrease in Ni-dissolved YSZ |
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11.4 Performance Degradations of Cathode and Anodes |
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11.4.2 Sintering of Ni Cermet Anodes |
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Chapter 12 Application of SOFCs in Combined Heat, Cooling and Power Systems |
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12.1.1 Drivers for Interest in Co- and Tri-generation Using Fuel Cells |
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12.1.2 Overview of CHP and CCHP |
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12.2 Application Characteristics & Building Integration |
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12.2.1 Commercial Buildings |
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12.2.2 Residential Applications |
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12.2.3 Building Integration & Operating Strategies |
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12.3 Overview of SOFC-CHP/CCHP Systems |
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12.3.1 SOFC System Description for CHP (Co-generation) |
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12.3.2 SOFC System Description for CCHP (Tri-generation) |
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12.4 Modelling Approaches: Cell to System |
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12.4.1 System-level Modelling and Performance Estimation |
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12.4.2 Cell/Stack Modelling for SOFC System Simulation |
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12.4.3 System Optimization Using Techno-economic Model Formulations |
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12.5 Evaluation of SOFC Systems in CCHP Applications |
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12.5.2 Large-scale CHP and CCHP Applications |
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12.6 Commercial Developments of SOFC-CHP Systems |
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12.6.1 Commercialization Efforts |
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12.7 Market Barriers and Challenges |
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12.7.3 Technical Barriers |
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12.7.4 Market Barriers and Environmental Impact |
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Chapter 13 Integrated SOFC and Gas Turbine Systems |
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Massimo Dentice d'Accadia |
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13.3 SOFC/GT Layouts Classification |
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13.4 SOFC/GT Pressurized Cycles |
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13.4.1 Internally Reformed SOFC/GT Cycles |
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13.4.2 Anode Recirculation |
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13.4.3 Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) |
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13.4.4 Externally Reformed SOFC/GT Cycles |
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13.4.5 Hybrid SOFC/GT-Cheng Cycles |
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13.4.6 Hybrid SOFC/Humidified Air Turbine (HAT) |
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13.4.7 Hybrid SOFC/GT-ITSOFC Cycles |
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13.4.8 Hybrid SOFC/GT-Rankine Cycles |
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13.4.9 Hybrid SOFC/GT with Air Recirculation or Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) |
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13.5 SOFC/GT Atmospheric Cycles |
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13.6 SOFC/GT Power Plant: Control Strategies |
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13.7 Hybrid SOFC/GT Systems Fed by Alternative Fuels |
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13.8 IGCC SOFC/GT Power Plants |
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Chapter 14 Modelling and Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell |
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14.1 Static Identification Model |
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14.1.1 Nonlinear Modelling Based on LS-SVM |
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14.1.2 Nonlinear Modelling Based on GA-RBF |
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14.2 Dynamic Identification Modelling for SOFC |
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14.2.1 ANFIS Identification Modelling |
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14.2.2 Hammerstein Identification Modelling |
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14.3 Control Strategies of the SOFC |
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14.3.1 Constant Voltage Control |
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14.3.2 Constant Fuel Utilization Control |
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Subject Index |
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