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Improved thermo-mechanical reliability of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) based systems are co-generators of electricity and heat that excel for their high efficiency, low pollutant emissions and fuel flexibility. Their reliability is close to meet the requirements for market deployment. Recent resea ...

EPFL2018

Production and Reliability Oriented SOFC Cell and Stack Design

Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin, Fabio Greco, Xin Wang

This paper presents an innovative development methodology for a production and reliability oriented SOFC cell and stack design aiming at improving the stacks robustness, manufacturability, efficiency and cost. Multi-physics models allowed a probabilistic a ...

2017

The Effects of Component Tolerances on the Thermo-Mechanical Reliability of SOFC Stacks

Jan Van Herle, Fabio Greco, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin

The reliability of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems is closing the gap to meet the requirements for market implementation. Finite-element (FE) stack models, typically used for stack reliability analyses, commonly consider idealized components. In reali ...

2017

Characterization of Cracks and their Effects on the Effective Transport Pathways in Ni-YSZ Anodes after Reoxidation Using X-Ray Nanotomography

Jan Van Herle, Jian Wang, Siyuan Wang, Arata Nakajo, Fabio Greco

Reduction-oxidation cycling of Ni-based electrodes for solid oxide fuel/electrolysis cells irreversibly alters their microstructure and can cause the fracture of the electrolyte. Non-destructive 3-D imaging enables tracking of microstructural changes that ...

2015

Thermo-mechanical Reliability of SOFC Stacks During Combined Long-term Operation and Thermal Cycling

Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin, Fabio Greco

Thermo-mechanical issues in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) must be understood and overcome to meet the reliability standards for market implementation. This study presents a thermo-mechanical model of an SOFC-stack SRU. The analysis starts with the simulati ...

2015

Modelling the impact of creep on the probability of failure of a solid oxide fuel cell stack

Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo, Fabio Greco

In solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology a major challenge lies in balancing thermal stresses from an inevitable thermal field. The cells are known to creep, changing over time the stress field. The main objective of this study was to assess the influenc ...

2014