Research and Development of Ammonia-fueled SOFC Systems

Presented on September 19, 2016 during the NH3 Fuel Conference 2016

Authors Koichi Eguchi Atthapon Srifa Takeou Okanishi Hiroki Muroyama Toshiaki Matsui Masashi Kishimoto Motohiro Saito Hiroshi Iwai Hideo Yoshida Kyoto University

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Abstract

Ammonia is a promising hydrogen carrier because of its high hydrogen density, low production cost, and ease in liquefaction and transport. Ammonia decomposes into nitrogen and hydrogen through a mildly endothermic process. The ammonia decomposition temperature is close to the operating conditions of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Therefore, the integration of these two devices is beneficial in terms of efficient heat and energy managements and will lead to the development of simplified generation systems.

We have investigated three types of ammonia-fueled SOFC systems. In one system, ammonia is directly supplied to the anode chamber. Ammonia decomposes into nitrogen and hydrogen over Ni-based cermet anode, and subsequently the generated hydrogen is electrochemically oxidized to produce steam and electron. The second system consists of ammonia cracker and SOFC. In this case, ammonia is catalytically decomposed through the ammonia cracker, and hydrogen produced is electrochemically oxidized on the anode. Nickel-based catalysts were applied for the ammonia cracker due to their relatively high activity for ammonia decomposition among base metals. The last one is the system combined with auto-thermal ammonia cracker, which will be suitable for the rapid start-up.

In this study, we introduce the development of ammonia-fueled SOFC systems. 200 W-class stacks as well as button-type cells were applied as SOFCs. The performances of the three systems were evaluated and compared with each other.

This work was supported by Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI), Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), “energy carrier” (Funding agency: JST).

Topics Catalysts DAFC (Direct Ammonia Fuel Cell) SOFC (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell)

Authors eguchi@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp Atthapon.Srifa@ammoniaenergy.org Takeou.Okanishi@ammoniaenergy.org muroyama.hiroki.5c@kyoto-u.ac.jp matsui@elech.kuic.kyoto-u.ac.jp Masashi.Kishimoto@ammoniaenergy.org Motohiro.Saito@ammoniaenergy.org Hiroshi.Iwai@ammoniaenergy.org Hideo.Yoshida@ammoniaenergy.org Masaki.Saito@ammoniaenergy.org Takeshi.Koide@ammoniaenergy.org Hiroyuki.Iwai@ammoniaenergy.org Shinsuke.Suzuki@ammoniaenergy.org yosuke-takahashi@n.noritake.co.jp Toshitaka.Horiuchi@ammoniaenergy.org hayahide_yamasaki@shokubai.co.jp shohei.matsumoto@mail.toyota-shokki.co.jp Shuji.Yumoto@ammoniaenergy.org hidehito.kubo@mail.toyota-shokki.co.jp Jun.Kawahara@ammoniaenergy.org Akihiro.Okabe@mitsui-chem.co.jp Yuki.Kikkawa@ammoniaenergy.org t-isomura@tokuyama.co.jp

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