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Advancing non-carbon energy: optimized and safely operated solid oxide fuel cell design for industrial feasibility

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Shivom Sharma, Xinyi Wei, Arthur Waeber

As the world shift towards sustainable energy solutions, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) using non-carbon fuels like ammonia and hydrogen emerge as promising pathways to produce clean energy and enhance conversion efficiency. However, current implementation ...

2025

Low-Power Tunable Micro-Plasma Devices for Efficient and Scalable CO2 Conversion

Bartu Karakurt

CO2 conversion plays a vital role in addressing climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a circular carbon economy. Rather than releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide recycling technologies allows transformatio ...

EPFL2025

Role and Opportunities of Gas bearing supported Turbomachinery in small-scale SOFC-CHP systems

Victoria Xu Hong He

Fuel cells are considered one of the most efficient and environmental-friendly technologies available for converting chemical energy into electricity and heat, and considered a key technology to close the hydrogen cycle. In particular, combined heat and po ...

EPFL2025

Solid-state synthesis of CdFe2O4 binary catalyst for potential application in renewable hydrogen fuel generation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Clean energy is highly needed at this time when the energy requirements are rapidly increasing. The observed increasing energy requirement are largely due to continued industrialization and global population explosion. The current means of energy source is ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Degradation study of a reversible solid oxide cell (rSOC) short stack using distribution of relaxation times (DRT) analysis

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Philippe Aubin, Maria del Mar Perez Fortes, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar

Reversible solid oxide cells (rSOC) can convert excess electricity to valuable fuels in electrolysis cell mode (SOEC) and reverse the reaction in fuel cell mode (SOFC). In this work, a five - cell rSOC short stack, integrating fuel electrode (Ni-YSZ) suppo ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Optimization and dynamic responses of an integrated fuel cell and battery system for an 800 kW ferry: A case study

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The recent targets by different countries to stop the sales or registrations of internal combustion engines (ICE) have led to the further development of battery and fuel cell technologies to provide power for different applications. The main aim of this st ...

ELSEVIER2022

Atomic-Step Enriched Ruthenium-Iridium Nanocrystals Anchored Homogeneously on MOF-Derived Support for Efficient and Stable Oxygen Evolution in Acidic and Neutral Media

Vasiliki Tileli, Bo Li, Junjie Li

Achieving an efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in an acidic or neutral medium is of paramount importance for hydrogen production via proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEM-WE). Supported iridium-based nanoparticles (NPs) are th ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

A membrane-less electrolyzer with porous walls for high throughput and pure hydrogen production dagger

Steven Alexandre Schenk, Demetri Psaltis, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Pooria Hadikhani

Membrane-less electrolyzers utilize fluidic forces instead of solid barriers for the separation of electrolysis gas products. These electrolyzers have low ionic resistance, a simple design, and the ability to work with electrolytes at different pH values. ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Dual Vacancies Confined in Nickel Phosphosulfide Nanosheets Enabling Robust Overall Water Splitting

Lu Chen, Pengzuo Chen

Exploring highly efficient electrocatalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great significance for addressing energy and environmental crises. Vacancy engineering has been regarded as a promising ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Establishing Stability in Organic Semiconductor Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Yongpeng Liu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho

As organic semiconductors attract increasing attention to application in the fields of bioelectronics and artificial photosynthesis, understanding the factors that determine their robust operation in direct contact with aqueous electrolytes becomes a criti ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Trade-off designs of power-to-methane systems via solid-oxide electrolyzer and the application to biogas upgrading

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Guillaume Jeanmonod

Solid-oxide electrolyzer based power-to-methane is promising for large-scale energy storage as well as biogas upgrading by efficiently converting intermittent renewable power and CO2 (e.g., in biogas) into synthetic methane. Either air or pure oxygen can b ...

2019

Long-term evolution of solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cell 3-D microstructure

Giorgio Rinaldi

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are highly efficient electrochemical conversion devices for the production of electricity that combine fuel flexibility with low emissions of pollutants. The reverse operation in electrolysis mode (SOEC) allows storing electri ...

EPFL2019

Local Study on Hydrogen and Hydrogen Gas Bubble Formation on a Platinum Electrode

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

This work investigates the effect of current density on the hydrogen gas bubble formation during electrolysis on a platinum electrode. Local detection of bubble evolution was performed electrochemically by using a hydrogen-collecting microelectrode placed ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

All Solution-Processed, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Photocathode for Hydrogen Evolution

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Marcel Roland Schreier

Nowadays, the efficient, stable, and scalable conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels represents a great scientific, economic, and ethical challenge. Amongst the available candidate technologies, photoelectrochemical water splitting potentially has ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Evolution of 3-D Transport Pathways and Triple-Phase Boundaries in the Ni-YSZ Hydrogen Electrode upon Fuel Cell or Electrolysis Cell Operation

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo, Pierre Burdet

The degradation of the Ni-YSZ electrode was investigated after SOFC or SOEC operation for up to 4,700 h and 10,700 h, respectively. 3-D FIB-SEM serial sectioning combined with 3-D EDS elemental mapping allowed the measurement of structural, material and el ...

2017

Minimization of Ionic Transport Resistance in Porous Monoliths for Application in Integrated Solar Water Splitting Devices

Sophia Haussener

Monolithic solar water splitting devices consist of photovoltaic materials integrated with electrocatalysts and produce solar hydrogen by water splitting upon solar illumination in one device. Upscaling of monolithic solar water splitting devices is obstru ...

American Chemical Society2016

Multi-objective Optimization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell–Gas Turbine Hybrid Cycle and Uncertainty Analysis

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Emanuela Peduzzi, Ayse Dilan Celebi

Chemical process optimization problems often have multiple and conflicting objectives, such as capital cost, operating cost, production cost, profit, energy consumption and environmental impact. There are several conversion technologies that can convert Sy ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Jeong-Hyeok Im

Although sunlight-driven water splitting is a promising route to sustainable hydrogen fuel production, widespread implementation is hampered by the expense of the necessary photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical apparatus. Here, we describe a highly efficie ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

A Bismuth Vanadate-Cuprous Oxide Tandem Cell for Overall Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Stanley David Tilley, Pauline Bornoz

Through examination of the optoelectronic and photoelectrochemical properties of BiVO4 and Cu2O photoelectrodes, we evaluate the feasibility of a BiVO4/Cu2O photoanode/photocathode tandem cell for overall unassisted solar water splitting. Using state-of-th ...

American Chemical Society2014

Easily-prepared dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles as an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution

Xile Hu, Michaël Bensimon, Heron Vrubel, Ligang Feng

Polydispersed dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple and scalable solid-state reaction. These nanoparticles are an excellent and robust catalyst for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, operating in both acidic and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014