Biomass,a source of renewable energy,represents an effective substitute to fossil fuels.Gasification is a process that organics are thermochemically converted into valuable gaseous products(e.g.biogas).In this work,th...Biomass,a source of renewable energy,represents an effective substitute to fossil fuels.Gasification is a process that organics are thermochemically converted into valuable gaseous products(e.g.biogas).In this work,the catalytic test demonstrated that the biogas produced from biomass gasification mainly consists of H2,CH4,CO,and CO2,which were then be used as the fuel for solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC).Planar SOFCs were fabricated and adopted.The steam reforming of biogas was carried out at the anode of a SOFC to obtain a hydrogen-rich fuel.The performance of the SOFCs operating on generated biogas was investigated by I-V polarization and electrochemical impedance spectra characterizations.An excellent cell performance was obtained,for example,the peak power density of the SOFC reached 1391 mW·cm-2 at 750℃when the generated biogas was used as the fuel.Furthermore,the SOFC fuelled by simulated biogas delivered a very stable operation.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants Nos.51302135 and 51678291)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.BK20190965)+1 种基金the Research Project of Nanjing Institute of Technology(Grant No.YKJ201435)the Australian Research Council(ARC)Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE180100773。
文摘Biomass,a source of renewable energy,represents an effective substitute to fossil fuels.Gasification is a process that organics are thermochemically converted into valuable gaseous products(e.g.biogas).In this work,the catalytic test demonstrated that the biogas produced from biomass gasification mainly consists of H2,CH4,CO,and CO2,which were then be used as the fuel for solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC).Planar SOFCs were fabricated and adopted.The steam reforming of biogas was carried out at the anode of a SOFC to obtain a hydrogen-rich fuel.The performance of the SOFCs operating on generated biogas was investigated by I-V polarization and electrochemical impedance spectra characterizations.An excellent cell performance was obtained,for example,the peak power density of the SOFC reached 1391 mW·cm-2 at 750℃when the generated biogas was used as the fuel.Furthermore,the SOFC fuelled by simulated biogas delivered a very stable operation.
