Objective
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.
Call for proposal
FCH-JU-2009-1
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Coordinator
52428 Julich
Germany
Participants (12)
8404 Winterthur
1400 Yverdon-les-bains
2800 Lyngby
75015 Paris 15
2800 Kgs Lyngby
8600 Dubendorf
620219 Ekaterinburg
02044 VTT Espoo
1015 Lausanne
SW7 2AZ London
75008 Paris 08
8401 Winterthur