Engineering solid oxide fuel cell electrode microstructure by a micro-modeling tool based on estimation of TPB length

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dc.authoridKorkmaz, Habip Gokay/0000-0003-2670-7912
dc.authoridGENC, Omer/0000-0003-0849-6867
dc.authoridTimurkutluk, Bora/0000-0001-6916-7720
dc.authoridCELIK, SELAHATTIN/0000-0002-7306-9784
dc.contributor.authorTimurkutluk, Bora
dc.contributor.authorAltan, Tolga
dc.contributor.authorToros, Serkan
dc.contributor.authorGenc, Omer
dc.contributor.authorCelik, Selahattin
dc.contributor.authorKorkmaz, Habip Gokay
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T13:24:34Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T13:24:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentNiğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractIn this study, a typical solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrode microstructure is numerically optimized in terms of the volume fraction of the catalyst, electrolyte and pore phases via a novel tool based on Dream.3D for the synthetic microstructure reconstruction and COM-SOL Multiphysics (R) Modeling for visualizing and computing three/triple phase boundaries (TPBs). First, the properties of the representative volume element are studied by a parameter independence analysis based on the average particle size. The results indicate that the size of the representative volume element should be at least 10 times greater than the largest average particle size in the microstructure, while the number of mesh elements should be selected such that the smallest average particle size in the system is divided into at least 5. The method is then validated with the available studies in the literature and seems to agree well. Therefore, numerical reconstruction of SOFC electrodes by the pro-posed method is found to be a very useful tool in the viewpoints of accuracy, flexibility and cost. Finally, SOFC electrode microstructures having the same particle size distribution of an average particle size of 0.5 mm for each phase but with various phase volume fractions are generated and the resultant TPBs are computed similarly. It is found out that the volume fraction of each phase should be close to each other as much as possible to maximize the active TPB density and among the cases considered, the highest active TPB density of 9.53 mm/mm(3) is achieved for an SOFC electrode including 35 vol% catalyst, 35 vol % electrolyte and 30 vol% porosity. The active TPB density is also found to be around 93% of the total TPB density. (C) 2021 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.01.165
dc.identifier.endpage13317
dc.identifier.issn0360-3199
dc.identifier.issn1879-3487
dc.identifier.issue24
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85101351934
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage13298
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.01.165
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11480/14161
dc.identifier.volume46
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000632376400017
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241106
dc.subjectSolid oxide fuel cell
dc.subjectSOFC
dc.subjectElectrode microstructure
dc.subjectSynthetic microstructure generation
dc.subjectThree/triple phase boundaries
dc.subjectTPBs
dc.titleEngineering solid oxide fuel cell electrode microstructure by a micro-modeling tool based on estimation of TPB length
dc.typeArticle

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