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The weakness of nickel-based solid oxide fuel cell anodes is their low ability to withstand re-oxidation at working temperature, especially for the anode-supported cell design. The volume expansion coming along with nickel (Ni) oxidation induces stresses i ...

EPFL2011

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A model-based Design of Experiments method was employed for the optimisation of measurements on a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC). Based on a simplified SOFC model, a variation of the D-optimality was used as optimisation criterion for the calculation of opti ...

2011

Simulation is a key issue in the design of control electrical systems. Simulation packages using component library, such as PSIM®, are very useful to achieve this goal. The simulation model is thus easily built from the system topology (structural model). ...

2010

The error in gas temperature measurements with thermocouples. Application on an SOFC system Heat Exchanger

Jan Van Herle, Leonidas Tsikonis

We develop a mathematical model and simulate the measurement of gas temperatures as applied by insertion of a thermocouple into a gas stream in order to integrate this model in a model that simulates the Heat Exchanger of an SOFC system. The model is valid ...

2010

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We report the observation of well-resolved A and B excitonic resonances in the reflectivity spectra of a wedged GaN/AlGaN quantum well (QW) with 5% Al content in the barriers for different well thicknesses. For the thicker well cases, the energy splitting ...

2009

RedOx study of anode supported solid oxide fuel cell

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Arata Nakajo, David Dubois

The common technology for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) is based on a cermet (ceramic-metal composite) anode of nickel with yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ), often used as the supporting structure. One of the main limitations of this technology is the tole ...

2009

Simulation of thermal stresses in anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell stacks. Part I: Probability of failure of the cells

Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Arata Nakajo

Structural stability issues in planar solid oxide fuel cells arise from the mismatch between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the components. The stress state at operating temperature is the superposition of several contributions, which differ depe ...

2009

Solid oxide fuel cell redox instability characterized by in situ transmission electron microscopy

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Antonin Faes

A solid oxide fuel (SOFC) cogenerates heat and electricity with high efficiency. Electricity is produced by the electrochemical reaction of a fuel (H2, CO, CH4) and an oxidant gas (O2, air). The SOFC standard design is based on an anode-supported electroly ...

2009

Experimental and modeling investigations on local performance and local degradation in solid oxide fuel cells

Zacharie Wuillemin

This thesis focuses on performance, reliability and degradation in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), which currently represent the three key technical challenges for the deployment of this technology. By its development of dedicated modeling and experimental ...

EPFL2009

Quantitative study of Ni-zirconia anode micro- and nanostructure related to SOFC stack degradation

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes

As the performances of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) get attractive, long term degradation becomes the main issue for this technology. Therefore it is essential to localise the origin of degradation and to understand its mechanisms in order to find solutio ...

2008