Operation of solid oxide fuel cell on biomass product gas with tar levels >10 g Nm-3

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9203-9212

  Hofmann, Ph ^a   Panopoulos, K D ^b   Aravind, P V ^d   Siedlecki, M ^d   Schweiger, A ^c   Karl, J ^c   Ouweltjes, J P ^e   Kakaras, E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass gasification; Fluidized; Nickel gadolinium doped ceria anode; SOFC; Solid oxide fuel cell; Tar; Wood gas

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS GASIFICATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTS; CARBON DEPOSITION; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED; EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION; FUEL UTILIZATION; GADOLINIUM DOPED CERIA; GASIFIERS; HOT GAS; PILOT SCALE; PLANAR SOLIDS; PRODUCT GAS; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; SOFC; WOOD GAS;

AIR CLEANERS; BIOMASS; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GADOLINIUM; GAS GENERATORS; GASES; GASIFICATION; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; TAR;

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

EID: 72149125599     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.07.040     Document Type: Article

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