摘要:
Highly efficient carbon fuels, exemplary embodiments of a high temperature, molten electrolyte electrochemical cell are capable of directly converting ash-free carbon fuel to electrical energy. Ash-free, turbostratic carbon particles perform at high efficiencies in certain direct carbon conversion cells.
摘要:
An assembly for storing electrolyte in a carbonate fuel cell is provided. The combination of a soft, compliant and resilient cathode current collector and an inactive anode part including a foam anode in each assembly mitigates electrical contact loss during operation of the fuel cell stack. In addition, an electrode reservoir in the positive end assembly and an electrode sink in the negative end assembly are provided, by which ribbed and flat cathode members inhibit electrolyte migration in the fuel cell stack.
摘要:
Disclosed is a molten carbonate fuel cell capable of preventing the leakage of a fuel gas due to deterioration of material by suppressing a high temperature generated at a hot section within a unit cell, thereby improving the reliability thereof. The present invention provides a molten carbonate fuel cell including a plurality of stacked unit cells 8, and separator plates 3 interposed between the adjacent unit cells, the respective unit cells having porous fuel electrode plates 9a and 9b, air electrode plates 11a and 11b, and electrolyte plates 10 interposed between these electrode plates; wherein the separator plate 3 forming a body 1 of the unit cell 8 is provided with at a center thereof intake internal manifolds 12a and 13a arranged at regular intervals for taking in fuel gas R and oxidant gas O towards a center of the body, and at both sides thereof exhaust internal manifolds 12b, 12c, 13b and 13c for exhausting the reacted fuel gas R and the reacted oxidant gas O, as well as forming passages for the fuel gas R ad the oxidant gas O at both sides thereof.
摘要:
A molten carbonate fuel cell having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an electrolyte matrix disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. An electrode support constructed of a high porosity reticulated foam material is disposed on an anode electrode face of at least one of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode facing away from the electrolyte matrix and forming a plurality of pores. An electrolyte is disposed within at least a portion of the plurality of pores, whereby at least a portion of the electrolyte flows into the electrolyte matrix during initial conditioning of the fuel cell.
摘要:
The invention concerns a process for the production of a porous lithium cobaltite electrode plate with a large inner surface and low polarization resistance. Lithium carbonate powder and cobalt metal powder are uniformly mixed together and then films are produced from the mixture and plates from the films, which plates are sintered and then placed in an air stream for several hours at a temperature between 400° C. and 488° C. until the conversion of said plates to lithium cobaltite electrode plates with an extremely large inner surface has taken place.
摘要:
A composite active electrolyte-matrix tape, single laminated active electrolyte-matrix tapes laminate, single electrolyte matrix/cathode tapes laminate, and single composite active electrolyte-matrix/cathode tapes laminate, all in the form of a single flexible sheet for use as fuel cells components, and process for producing same in situ. These components reduce the number of components necessarily handled in fuel cell assembly. The composite active electrolyte-matrix tape provides a major portion or all of the active electrolyte required by the entire cell for operation. The electrolyte matrix/cathode tapes laminate provides a supported electrolyte matrix structure resistant to cracking and fracture. Active electrolyte may also be added to either the electrolyte matrix, to the cathode, or to both tapes in the electrolyte matrix/cathode laminate to provide a major portion or all of the active electrolyte for cell operation. The invention is suited for molten alkali metal carbonates fuel cells.
摘要:
A molten alkali metal carbonates fuel cell porous anode of lithium ferrite and a metal or metal alloy of nickel, cobalt, nickel/iron, cobalt/iron, nickel/iron/aluminum, cobalt/iron/aluminum and mixtures thereof wherein the total iron content including ferrite and iron of the composite is about 25 to about 80 percent, based upon the total anode, provided aluminum when present is less than about 5 weight percent of the anode. A process for production of the lithium ferrite containing anode by slipcasting.
摘要:
A powdery raw material for manufacturing an anode of a fuel cell comprises a powder of a nickel-base alloy consisting essentially of 0.5-10 percent by weight aluminum, and the balance of nickel and inevitable impurities, and having a mean grain size of 3-20 microns. The nickel-base alloy powder may contain 0.01-1.0 percent by weight oxygen, and/or may have an apparent density of 0.5-3.5 g/cm.sup.3, and a specific surface area of at least 0.12 m.sup.2 /g. Advantageously, the nickel-base alloy powder is formed by means of water-atomization under a condition that the water injection pressure is 400 Kg/cm.sup.2, and the specific water quantity is 0.02-0.2 m.sup.3 /Kg, the thus manufactured anodes exhibit initial anode characteristics as excellent as those of conventional anodes, and possess such excellent high-temperature creep strength and sintering resistance, thereby exhibiting excellent anode characteristics over a long period of time.
摘要:
A molten carbonate fuel cell using molten carbonate as an electrolyte, carbonate ions as electric conductor, and feeding a hydrogen-enriched gas to the anode and a mixture of air and carbon dioxide gas to the cathode has its output fall by degrees with operation. It is surmised that one of the causes of this problem is ascribable to the fact that the molten carbonate electrolyte moves during operation to destroy equilibrium in the boundary between the electrolyte and electrodes. After studies for measures against the problem, the inventor found that the output of a fuel cell which has fallen can be improved by shutting off part or all of the raaction gases or reducing their feed for a while, and then restoring. The purpose of the present invention is to offer a high-performance stable-output molten carbonate fuel cell and its operation control method, incorporating the above findings in its operation control system.