Demonstration of a liquid-tin anode solid-oxide fuel cell (lta-sofc) operating from biodiesel fuel

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 5036-5041

  McPhee, William A G ^a   Boucher, Matthew ^b   Stuart, James ^b   Parnas, Richard S ^b   Koslowske, Mark ^a   Tao, Thomas ^a   Wilhite, Benjamin A ^b  

^a CellTech Power LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; BALANCE OF PLANT; BIO-DIESEL FUEL; CELL EFFICIENCY; FUEL USE; INTERNAL REFORMING; PEAK POWER; PEAK POWER DENSITIES; PLANT SYSTEMS; POWER DENSITIES; RESOURCE FLEXIBILITY; TIN ANODES; WASTE COOKING OIL;

BIODIESEL; BIOMASS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; LIQUIDS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); SYNTHETIC FUELS; THERMOANALYSIS; TIN;

FUEL OILS;

EID: 70350437814     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef9003413     Document Type: Article

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