Direct carbon fuel cell operation on brown coal

Applied Energy

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-64

  Rady, Adam C ^a   Giddey, Sarbjit ^b   Kulkarni, Aniruddha ^b   Badwal, Sukhvinder P S ^b   Bhattacharya, Sankar ^a   Ladewig, Bradley P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brown coal; Char; DCFC; Demineralised coal; Fuel cell; Lignite

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL CELLS; LIGNITE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CHAR; DCFC; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; INORGANIC SPECIES; PEAK POWER DENSITIES; SOLID OXIDE ELECTROLYTES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; VICTORIAN BROWN COAL;

DIRECT CARBON FUEL CELLS (DCFC);

CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD AIR; COMMERCIALIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROLYTE; FUEL CELL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84893878431     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.046     Document Type: Article

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