Ultra-fast fabrication of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells via microwave-assisted sintering technology

Kyeong Joon Kim; Jeong Hwa Park; Kang Taek Lee

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.37, No.8, 1436-1439, August, 2020

DOI10.1007/s11814-020-0578-2 Export Citation

Ultra-fast fabrication of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells via microwave-assisted sintering technology

Kyeong Joon Kim, Jeong Hwa Park, and Kang Taek Lee^{1, †}

Department of Energy Science and Engineering, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Korea
¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea

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We demonstrate ultra-fast fabrication of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) using microwaveassisted sintering technology. Due to the nature of microwaves that transfers heat directly into the material, the SOFC sintering process was completed within 8 h, ~ six times faster compared to a conventional sintering process (~47 h). Despite extremely rapid processing time, the microstructure of the SOFC fabricated by microwave-assisted sintering (M-SOFC) was almost identical to that of the conventionally sintered SOFC. Moreover, the electrochemical performance of the M-SOFC at 750 °C was 0.52 W/cm2 in peak power density, which is even higher than that of the conventionally sintered sample (0.49W/cm2). Thus, our results demonstrate that the ultra-fast microwave-assisted sintering process is a highly effective and practically promising technology for fabricating high performance SOFCs.

Keywords:Solid Oxide Fuel Cells;Microwave-assisted Sintering;Anode Support;Ultra-fast Fabrication;Electrochemical Performance

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