Development of High Performance Micro-Tubular SOFCs by AIST
In recent years in aiming to achieve high power generation efficiency and at the same time to greatly reduce CO2 emissions numerous type of fuel cells have been developed. One such fuel cells are SOFCs which comprised of ceramic components exhibiting the highest efficiency. Since SOFCs are operated at high temperatures of between 800 to 1000 degrees Celsius, exhaust heat can be used for fuel reforming as well as hot water storage resulting in overall high energy efficiency of the system. However, the high temperature operability of SOFCs has limited their application to power generation systems where the thermal cycle and load variation can be kept small. Read more
