Implications for Using Biogas as a Fuel Source for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Internal Dry Reforming in a Small Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell |
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Authors: | John Staniforth R Mark Ormerod |
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Affiliation: | (1) Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science, School of Chemistry and Physics, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK |
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Abstract: | The feasibility of operating a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) on biogas has been studied over a wide compositional range of biogas, using a small tubular solid oxide fuel cell system operating at 850 °C. It is possible to run the SOFC on biogas, even at remarkably low levels of methane, at which conventional heat engines would not work. The power output varies with methane content, with maximum power production occurring at 45% methane, corresponding to maximal production of H2 and CO through internal dry reforming. Direct electrocatalytic oxidation of methane does not contribute to the power output of the cell. At higher methane contents methane decomposition becomes significant, leading to increased H2 production, and hence transiently higher power production, and deleterious carbon deposition and thus eventual cell deactivation. |
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Keywords: | solid oxide fuel cells biogas dry reforming methane nickel yttria-stabilized zirconia coke formation |
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