Benefiting from a strong cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and AVL List GmbH respectively, Plansee has been focusing on the development and industrialization of metal-supported SOFC and components for mobile applications. In the scope of some challenging development projects a novel MSC configuration and a first pilot fabrication route could be demonstrated successfully. Currently, the work is ongoing towards a continuous and reliable manufacturing of standard cells as well as the demonstration of system-relevant stack tests. This paper gives an overview about the latest results in cell and stack development as well as about the manufacturing route for cost-effective metal-supported cells.
The current paper reports the details of challenges and progress in the joint project on development of metal supported solid oxide fuel cells and stacks by the teams of German Aerospace Center (DLR), ElringKlinger, Sulzer Metco and Plansee. An account of the materials is given followed by the advances in the processing techniques which include alternative plasma spraying and colloidal spraying. Improvement in the cell and stack design is then discussed followed by challenges faced during stack building and operations and solution implemented.
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