The thermal effects of all porous solid oxide fuel cells

All porous solid oxide fuel cells adopt a porous electrolyte to resist coking caused by hydrocarbon fuels such as methane. With O2 molecules coming from the cathode, chemical oxidation reactions occur at the anode, competing with the electrochemical oxidations with O2− ions. These reactions release a lot of heat, thus significantly affects the cell's power density and fuel efficiency. In this paper, we developed a 2D thermal-electrochemical...