Beiträge zu Proceedings

The prevailing problem of climate change urges the shift to climate-neutral energy supply and efficient energy use in all areas of society and industry. The share of energy usage for room heating is relatively high and therefore an important field to improve the efficiency as well as CO2-footprint of the energy supply. [...]

Large scale production of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is the next step for ensuring cleanenergy conversion. During manufacturing of SOFC stacks, metallic interconnects play avital role in electrical contacting which highly influences the overall stack performance.Therefore, the force applied to a fuel cell stack to establish electrical contact is verycrucial. [...]

In targeting lifetimes of 10 years, accelerated stress testing becomes inevitable forensuring the longevity and successful market introduction of SOCs. These elevatedstressors can impact various degradation mechanisms to differing extents and may pushthe cell into unstable operating regimes, resulting in behaviors irrelevant to nominaloperating conditions. [...]

Increasing the durability of solid oxide cells is one of the main goals for achievingwider industrial application. The quality of the electrode plays a major role in theperformance and durability of a fuel and electrolysis cells. [...]