TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling ammonia-fueled co-flow dual-channel protonic-ceramic fuel cells
AU - Zhu, Huayang
AU - Karakaya, Canan
AU - Kee, Robert J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper reports the model development for a dual-channel protonic-ceramic fuel cell (PCFC) operating on ammonia fuel. The model considers the coupled interactions of several physical and chemical processes, including three-dimensional heat conduction within the bipolar plates and the membrane-electrode assembly (MEA), one-dimensional flow within the fuel and air channels, detailed heterogeneous catalytic reactions within the porous composite anode structure, Butler–Volmer representation of the charge-transfer chemistry, and Nernst–Planck transport of three charged defects (protons, oxygen vacancies, and small polarons) within the dense electrolyte membrane. The membrane-electrode assembly is composed of a Ni-BCZYYb ((Formula presented.)) anode, a BCZYYb electrolyte membrane, and a BCFZY ((Formula presented.)) cathode. Chemical and physical parameters for the MEA model are established using previously published button-cell data. One aspect of the study is to investigate the partial ammonia decomposition upstream of the fuel cell. Such fuel cracking increases the H (Formula presented.) content of the fuel entering the PCFC, which may have benefits. However, endothermic ammonia pyrolysis within the composite anode structure assists with thermal control of the cell. The dual-channel model can be considered as the unit cell of a full fuel-cell stack.
AB - This paper reports the model development for a dual-channel protonic-ceramic fuel cell (PCFC) operating on ammonia fuel. The model considers the coupled interactions of several physical and chemical processes, including three-dimensional heat conduction within the bipolar plates and the membrane-electrode assembly (MEA), one-dimensional flow within the fuel and air channels, detailed heterogeneous catalytic reactions within the porous composite anode structure, Butler–Volmer representation of the charge-transfer chemistry, and Nernst–Planck transport of three charged defects (protons, oxygen vacancies, and small polarons) within the dense electrolyte membrane. The membrane-electrode assembly is composed of a Ni-BCZYYb ((Formula presented.)) anode, a BCZYYb electrolyte membrane, and a BCFZY ((Formula presented.)) cathode. Chemical and physical parameters for the MEA model are established using previously published button-cell data. One aspect of the study is to investigate the partial ammonia decomposition upstream of the fuel cell. Such fuel cracking increases the H (Formula presented.) content of the fuel entering the PCFC, which may have benefits. However, endothermic ammonia pyrolysis within the composite anode structure assists with thermal control of the cell. The dual-channel model can be considered as the unit cell of a full fuel-cell stack.
KW - Co-flow channels
KW - NH cracking
KW - Protonic ceramic fuel cell
KW - ammonia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122867029&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15435075.2021.2018321
DO - 10.1080/15435075.2021.2018321
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122867029
SN - 1543-5075
VL - 19
SP - 1568
EP - 1582
JO - International Journal of Green Energy
JF - International Journal of Green Energy
IS - 14
ER -