A micro heater platform with fluid channels for testing micro-solid oxide fuel cell components

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 175, Issue , 2012, Pages 218-224

  Jiang, Bo ^a,e   Muralt, Paul ^a   Heeb, Peter ^b   Santis Alvarez, Alejandro J ^c   Nabavi, Majid ^c   Poulikakos, Dimos ^c   Niedermann, Philippe ^d   Maeder, Thomas ^e  

^a Ceramics Laboratory Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b Landscape Architecture   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CSEM   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gas processing unit; Hydrocarbon reforming; Micro scale solid oxide fuel cell

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED HEATING; CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL POWER GENERATION; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FLUID CHANNELS; FUEL CELL SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS PROCESSING; HEAT-UP; HYDROCARBON REFORMING; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEDICAL DEVICES; MICRO-HEATERS; MICRO-SCALES; OXIDE FUEL CELLS; PORTABLE DEVICE; POST-COMBUSTION; POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY; SEALED GLASS; SILICON CHIP; TESTING PLATFORMS; THERMAL BALANCE; TIGHT GAS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; GASES; PLATINUM; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMISTORS;

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

EID: 84870255422     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.06.097     Document Type: Article

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