International audienceSolid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are energy conversion devices thatproduce electricity and heat directly from a fuel such asnatural gas. Little attention has been paid to the electricalbehaviour of a SOFC stack. This paper presents an electricalinteraction model of a planar anode supported intermediatetemperature SOFC stack with direct internal reforming. The SOFCstack model is built up of multiple single repeat units stackedon top of each other and takes into account, amongst otherparameters, contact resistances and gas flow. This assembly issandwiched between two end plates. A combined model with mass,charge and heat balances has been developed with a specialattention to the description of electrical behavior. Such anapproach can provide a picture of the two dimensionaldistribution of potential, current density, and temperature.Simulations are performed to analyse the impact of changes inmaterial conductivities, electrical configuration and operation conditions
The continuous contamination of the cathode with chromium released from metallic interconnects speeds up the degradation of the performance of the cell. For this reason Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) interconnects are coated with a dense protective layer. This layer plays the role of a diffusion barrier for the chromium evaporation at operating conditions. The deposition of a dense, gas tight and stable MnCo2O4 spinel layer on ferritic alloy using the atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) process is studied. The first experimental results show that the plasma spray process combined with an appropriate post thermal-treatment is suitable to form a dense spinel protective layer.
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