Tuesday, 31 May 2016: 15:20
Indigo Ballroom E (Hilton San Diego Bayfront)
A new type of high-temperature fuel cell using solid carbon as fuel, which is called a direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC), has recently attracted scientific and industrial attention due to its excellent electrochemical efficiency, less production of CO2, and no need of CO2 separation. However, the state-of-the-art technology of the DCFC is still in an idea-developing stage, mainly because of fuel-related difficulties: discontinuous fuel supply and very limited formation of a triple-phase boundary. Hence, this study was devoted to developing a new way to maximize the formation of TPBs by using a porous Ni anode and realizing continuous fuel supply through various methods.