TY - JOUR AU - Motylinski, Konrad AU - Skrzypkiewicz, Marek AU - Naumovich, Yevgeniy AU - Wierzbicki, Michał AU - Kupecki, Jakub PY - 2018 TI - Effects of gas velocity on formation of carbon deposits on AS-SOFC fuel electrodes JF - Journal of Power Technologies; Vol 98 No 4 (2018) KW - Boudouard Reaction, Carbon Deposition, SOFC, Soot Formation N2 - The elevated operating temperatures of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) create favorable kinetics for the oxidation of carboncontaining gas mixtures, which may include carbon monoxide and light organic compounds. The presence of carbon-based components in the fuel might result in the formation and deposition of soot on the surface of the anode in a fuel cell. This process depends on and is driven by the prevailing thermodynamic, kinetic and electrochemical conditions. The present study was premised on the following: in addition to the aforementioned parameters providing for the operating conditions, gas velocity also affects the formation of deposits on the anode. The role of fuel gas velocity in the process was studied experimentally using 5 cm x 5 cm anode supported solid oxide fuel cells (AS-SOFC) at 750°C at velocities in the range 0.1 to 0.9 m/s. It was found that carbon deposition was clearly observable approximately 24 hours after the necessary conditions were attained. An intense stage of performance degradation typically lasts for a period of up to 60 hours. An increase in fuel flow velocity leads to an acceleration in the carbon deposition process. The correlation between velocity and cell degradation due to this phenomenon was determined and the corresponding function was proposed. UR - https://papers.itc.pw.edu.pl/index.php/JPT/article/view/1404