Solid Oxide Fuel Cells – Integrating Degradation Effects into Lifetime Prediction Models (SOFC-LIFE)
Description
Long-term stable operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) is a basic requirement for introducing this technology to the stationary power market. Degradation phenomena limiting the lifetime can be divided into continuous (baseline) and incidental (transient) effects.
This project is concerned with understanding the details of the major SOFC continuous degradation effects and developing models that will predict single degradation phenomena and their combined effect on SOFC cells and single repeating units.
The outcome of the project will be an in-depth understanding of the degradation phenomena as a function of the basic physico-chemical processes involved, including their dependency on operational parameters. Up to now research has rarely succeeded in linking the basic changes in materials properties to the decrease in electro-chemical performance at the level of multi-layer systems and SOFC cells, and even up to single repeating units.
Key data
Projectlead
Project partners
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; Hexis AG; SolydEra SA; Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S; French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA); Technical University of Denmark; Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt EMPA; Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry; VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL; Imperial College London; Électricité de France
Project status
completed, 01/2011 - 12/2013
Institute/Centre
Institute of Computational Physics (ICP)
Funding partner
FP7
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