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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2013.24.2.186

Electrochemical Performance of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with Different Thicknesses of BSCF-based Cathode  

Jeong, Jaewon (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Yoo, Chung-Yul (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Joo, Jong Hoon (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Yu, Ji Haeng (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.24, no.2, 2013 , pp. 186-192 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to reduce the costs and to improve the durability of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), the operating temperature should be decreased while the power density is maintained as much as possible. However, lowering the operating temperature increases the cathode interfacial polarization resistances dramatically, limiting the performance of low-temperature SOFC at especially purely electronic conducting cathode. To improve cathode performance at low temperature, the number of reaction sites for the oxygen reduction should be increased by using a mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) material. In this study, anode-supported fuel cells with two different thicknesses of the MIEC cathode were fabricated and tested at various operating temperatures. The anode supported cell with $32.5{\mu}m$-thick BSCFZn-LSCF cathode layer showed much lower polarization resistance than that with $3.2{\mu}m$ thick cahtode and higher power density especially at low temperature. The effects of cathode layer thickness on the electrochemical performance are discussed with analysis of impedance spectra.
Keywords
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell(SOFC); Mixed Ionic Electronic Conducting cathode; Oxygen reduction reaction; Oxygen exchange reaction; Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy(EIS);
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