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Arata Nakajo

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Production and Reliability Oriented SOFC Cell and Stack Design

Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Arata Nakajo, 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

Accessible triple-phase boundary length: A performance metric to account for transport pathways in heterogeneous electrochemical materials

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo

The performance of materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage depends upon the number of electrocatalytic sites available for reaction and their accessibility by the transport of reactants and products. For solid oxide fuel/electrolysis ce ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Role of microstructure on electrode operating mechanisms for mixed ionic electronic conductors: From synchrotron-based 3D reconstruction to electrochemical modeling

Arata Nakajo

A typical La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-delta (LSCF) electrode was reconstructed by X-ray nanotomography. The new Nano Imaging beamline ID16A-NI of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) was used to conduct the investigation. Particular attention was ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

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

Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Arata Nakajo, 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

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A Triode Solid Oxide Fuel Cell is a novel cell architecture that consists of two circuits: an auxiliary circuit, operated in electrolysis mode, and a conventional main fuel cell circuit. During triode operation, performance enhancement can be expected espe ...

2015

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

Jian Wang, Jan Van Herle, 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

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

Current State of Models for the Prediction of Mechanical Failures in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo

Structural reliability and durability is a hurdle for the large-scale commercialisation of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). Because of the multiphysics nature of the problem, modelling is required to first gain knowledge and then alleviate mechanical failures ...

Springer2013

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The experimental validation of a real-time optimization (RTO) strategy for the optimal operation of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is reported in this paper. Unlike many existing studies, the RTO approach presented here utilizes the constraint-adapta ...

2012

Mechanical reliability and durability of SOFC stacks. Part I: Modelling of the effect of operating conditions and design alternatives on the reliability

Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo

Electrochemical and mechanical aspects in solid oxide fuel cell stack must be understood to meet the reliability targets for market implementation. This study presents a stack modelling framework that combines thermo-electrochemical models, including degra ...

Elsevier2012

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