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Design of 500 W Class SOFC Stack with Homogeneous Cell Performance

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Zacharie Wuillemin, Arata Nakajo, Nordahl Autissier

Our planar SOFC stacking technology uses unprofiled metallic interconnects (MIC) and thin cells of tape cast anode supported YSZ. The key element is the gas diffusion layer (GDL) between cell and MIC, which consists of so-called SOFConnex™. Using square ce ...

The Electrochemical Society2007

Investigating Reliability on Fuel Cell Model Identification. Part II: An Estimation Method for Stochastic Parameters

Jan Van Herle, Daniel Favrat, Stefan Diethelm, Arata Nakajo, Leonidas Tsikonis

An alternative way to process data from polarization measurements for fuel cell model validation is proposed. The method is based on re- and subsampling of IV data, with which repetitive estimations are obtained for the model parameters. This way statistic ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Poisoning effects of chlorine on a solid oxide cell operated in co-electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Guillaume Jeanmonod

Although the effects of impurities on the Ni-YSZ electrode of a solid oxide cell in fuel cell operation have been studied, reports on their effects during electrolysis operation are limited. Here, short-term experiments at various current densities and a d ...

ELSEVIER2021

Operando analysis of a solid oxide fuel cell by environmental transmission electron microscopy

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefan Diethelm, Cédric Frantz

Correlating the microstructure of an energy conversion device to its performance is often a complex exercise, notably in solid oxide fuel cell research. Solid oxide fuel cells combine multiple materials and interfaces that evolve in time due to high operat ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Ageing of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell stacks including thermal cycling, and expansion behaviour of MgO-NiO anodes

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

This paper reports on medium term tests of anode-supported five-cell short stacks, as well as on some separate anode development. Two stacks were operated under steady-state conditions: one with unprotected metal interconnects, H-2 fuel and 0.35 A cm(-2) ( ...

Elsevier2008

Ageing of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell stacks including thermal cycling, and expansion behaviour of MgO–NiO anodes

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

2008

Modeling and Designing of a Radial Anode Off-Gas Recirculation Fan for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems

Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Stefan Diethelm, Zacharie Wuillemin, Patrick Hubert Wagner

To improve the industry benchmark of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems, we consider anode off-gas recirculation (AOR) using a small-scale fan. Evolutionary algorithms compare different system design alternatives with hot or cold recirculation. The syste ...

2017

Tubular La0.7Ca0.3Fe0.85Co0.15O3-delta Perovskite Membranes, Part I: Preparation and Properties

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

Dense tubular self-supporting La0.7Ca0.3Fe0.85 Co0.15O3-δperovskite membranes were prepared by thermoplastic extrusion. The rheological behavior of the ceramic mixture was studied. Non-deformed tubes o ...

2006

Oxygen transport in La0.5Sr0.5Fe1-yTi yO3-δ (y=0.0,0.2) membranes

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm

The influence of partial substitution of Fe with Ti on the oxygen transport properties of La1- xSrxFeO3 membranes was investigated in view of their application for oxygen separation. Samples of composition La0.5Sr0.5 Fe1-yTiyO3-δ (y = 0, 0.2) were prepared ...

2006

Organic-sulfur poisoning of solid oxide fuel cell operated on bio-syngas

Jan Van Herle, Christian Ludwig, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

This study experimentally analyzes the performance and degradation issues of an anode supported (AS) Ni-YSZ solid oxide fuel cell exposed to thiophene (C4H4S). The impact of this organic sulfur compound on the performance of SOFC Ni-YSZ anodes is reported ...

Elsevier2016

Triode Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Operation Under Sulfur-Poisoning Conditions

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Priscilla Caliandro

The triode solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a three electrodes configuration. The third electrode, so-called auxiliary, is connected in a way to run in electrolysis mode, while cathode and anode operate in normal fuel cell mode. This mixed operation allows ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Integrated System Design of a Small-scale Power-to-Methane Demonstrator

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Alberto Mian

Power-to-methane technology has been considered as a promising alternative to cope with seasonal storage of renewable energy and the utilization of CO2 captured from various sources, due to the existing infrastructure for massive methane storage and distri ...

2017

The effect of SO2 on the Ni-YSZ electrode of a solid oxide electrolyzer cell operated in co-electrolysis

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Guillaume Jeanmonod

In this work, the effect of sulphur poisoning of the Ni-YSZ electrode of an SOEC operated in co-electrolysis mode was investigated. Short-term tests with exposure up to 5 ppmv of SO2 were performed at OCV and under polarization (0.25 A cm−2). The two-stage ...

2020

Fabrication and Characterisation of Cathode Support-tubes for Micro-tubular SOFC Application

Jan Van Herle, Heinrich Hofmann, Paul Bowen, Stefan Diethelm, John Espen Rossen

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2009

Solid oxide fuel cell anode degradation by the effect of siloxanes

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

Lifetime and durability issues connected with Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology are strongly related to the amount of contaminants that reach the stack. In this study the focus is on organic silicon compounds (siloxanes) and their highly detrimental ...

2015

Effect of Steam-to-Carbon Ratio on Degradation of Ni-YSZ Anode Supported Cells

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

Internal steam reforming (IR) of methane was investigated on Ni- YSZ anode supported cells, looking in particular at the effect of the steam to carbon (S/C) ratio on the degradation rate. The cells were fed with different H2O/CH4 mixtures during 100 hours ...

2013

The Impact of Toluene on the Performance of Anode-Supported Ni-YSZ SOFC Operated on Hydrogen and Biosyngas

Christian Ludwig, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

This paper presents an experimental study of the impact of toluene on the performance of anode-supported (AS) Ni/YSZ SOFC operating at ∼800 °C, 0.25 A/cm2 fed with H2 and biosyngas. Toluene was added to the fuel stream and its concentration increased from ...

2015

Damage of Siloxanes on Ni-YSZ Anode Supported SOFC Operated on Hydrogen and Bio-Syngas

Jan Van Herle, Christian Ludwig, Stefan Diethelm, Hossein Madi

This work presents the poisoning effect of organic oxo-silicon compounds (siloxanes) which are generally found in sewage biogas. Lifetime and durability associated with solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is strongly related to the amount of contaminan ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

In-situ experimental benchmarking of solid oxide fuel cell metal interconnect solutions

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Priscilla Caliandro, Manuel Bianco

The progress in the diffusion of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) as commercial devices is not paired by literature production. Articles describing the behaviour of SOFC stacks are rare because of confidentiality reasons for commercial suppliers while research ...

2020

Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) feedstock development and optimization for thermoplastic forming of thin planar and tubular oxygen separation membranes

Stefan Diethelm

This paper presents the processing steps for producing thin planar and tubular oxygen separation membranes by thermoplastic forming of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) with polystyrene (PS) and stearic acid (SA) as binder. The influence of powder conten ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013