Multicriteria assessment of the performance of solid oxide fuel cells by cell design and materials development: Design and modeling approach

Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Otomo, Junichiro ^a,b   Waki, Keiko ^b,c   Yamada, Koichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

availability; cell design; modeling; solid oxide fuel cells

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CELL DESIGN; CELL PERFORMANCE; COMPONENT MATERIALS; DESIGN AND MODELING; MATERIAL COST; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT; MICRO-TUBULAR; MODEL ESTIMATION; MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POWER DENSITIES; POWER GENERATION EFFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RESEARCH STRATEGY; SOFC STACK; STACK PERFORMANCE; STACK VOLUME; VOLUMETRIC POWER DENSITY;

AVAILABILITY; MODELS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); TECHNOLOGY;

DESIGN;

EID: 84873384476     PISSN: 1550624X     EISSN: 15516989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4023387     Document Type: Article

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