n-Hexadecane Fuel for a Phosphoric Acid Direct Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell

Zhu, Yuanchen; Robinson, Travis; Al‐Othman, Amani; Tremblay, André Y.; Ternan, Marten

doi:10.1155/2015/748679

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“…7,8 These are major environmental challenges that affect public health and the wellbeing of individuals. 3,[9][10][11][12] Therefore, the attention of the scientific community was diverted toward sustainable, renewable, and clean energy resources that can replace existing internal combustion engines [13][14][15][16][17] and mitigate the emissions of GHGs. New policies and environmental regulations were imposed by different countries to encourage the efforts for the implementation of such renewable technologies.…”

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“…5,18,19 Renewable energy resources including hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, tidal, and wave are very well studied and optimized. 5,14,20,21 However, the economic aspect remains the main challenge. Solar energy is the most attractive renewable source of energy for different applications including electricity production.…”

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“…Renewable energy resources including hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, tidal, and wave are very well studied and optimized 5,14,20,21 . However, the economic aspect remains the main challenge.…”

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Performance analysis of hybrid solar chimney–power plant for power production and seawater desalination: A sustainable approach

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This study presents a novel design that combines cooling tower (CT) and traditional solar chimney power plant (SCPP) technologies for electricity generation and seawater desalination. The proposed hybrid solar chimney power plant (HSCPP) shares the operation of the chimney part and the bi-directional turbine between the SCPP and CT, allowing alternative operation of the CT during the nighttime and the SCPP during the daytime, and achieving continuous system utilization. The performance of the HSCPP design was validated against baseline models using 1 year of weather data from the city of Aqaba in Jordan. Results revealed that the HSCPP has the potential to produce 50% electricity (528 MWh/year) higher than the traditional SCPP (365 MWh/year). The annual seawater desalination capacity of the HSCPP was estimated at 138300 m 3 , which is 1.5 folds higher than the traditional SCPP. The HSCPP reduced the annual CO 2 emissions by 40% (500 tons) compared to traditional SCPP with annual revenue of US$190 000. Furthermore, the results show that the HSCPP is 1.4 times more efficient than the traditional SCPP. The HSCPP achieved a system utilization factor of 0.73% compared to 0.52% for the traditional SCPP. The HSCPP showed promising sustainable and economical technology for the production of electricity and water while reducing the emission of GHG.

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Performance analysis of hybrid solar chimney–power plant for power production and seawater desalination: A sustainable approach

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“…Therefore, to increase wettability and proton conductivity, surface oxidation of the aromatic groups in PBI were studied with ozone [18], O atoms [19], UV photo-oxidation [20], and vacuum UV photo-oxidation [21]. In addition, the performance of a phosphoric acid fuel cell with n-hexadecane fuel has shown promise for petroleum diesel or biodiesel fuels [22].…”

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Enhancing the Wettability of Polyetheretherketone (Peek) Membrane with Ozone for Improving Fuel Cell Performance

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Rippel³

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Ozone was reacted with the aromatic membrane polyetheretherketone (PEEK) to form oxidized functional groups on the surface to enhance the attraction and transport of protons in fuel cells. Ozonation of unsaturated C-C sp<sup>2</sup> bonds in PEEK formed a primary ozonide which dissociated to primarily produce O=C-O/O=C-OH moieties, and the root mean squared roughness factor (R<sub>q</sub>) decreased from 7.4 nm, for the untreated sample, down to 3.1 nm. The oxidation of the surface and decrease in surface roughness made the surface increase in hydrophilicity as observed by the decrease in the water contact angle (CA) from 80.3° for untreated PEEK down to 21.7°. Washing the treated surface with solvent decreased the O at % on the surface indicating the formation of a weak boundary layer because of bond breakage during the decomposition of the ozonide.

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“…Kim et al [4] used a synthetic diesel fuel. The other studies were performed using pure compounds, n-hexadecane [5], dodecane [6], and isooctane [7]. The only study using a lower temperature (150 ∘ C) phosphoric acid fuel cell was performed with a series of pure n-alkane compounds from methane to n-hexadecane [8].…”

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Petroleum Diesel and Biodiesel Fuels Used in a Direct Hydrocarbon Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell

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The performance of a direct hydrocarbon phosphoric acid fuel cell, PAFC, was investigated using petroleum diesel, biodiesel, and n-hexadecane as the fuels. We believe this is the first study of a fuel cell being operated with petroleum diesel as the fuel at the anode. Degradation in fuel cell performance was observed prior to reaching steady state. The degradation was attributed to a carbonaceous material forming on the surface of the anode. Regardless of the initial degradation, a steady-state operation was achieved with each of the diesel fuels. After treating the anode with water the fuel cell performance recovered. However, the fuel cell performance degraded again prior to obtaining another steady-state operation. There were several observations that were consistent with the suggestion that the carbonaceous material formed from the diesel fuels might be a reaction intermediate necessary for steady-state operation. Finally, the experiments indicated that water in the phosphoric acid electrolyte could be used as the water required for the anodic reaction. The water formed at the cathode could provide the replacement water for the electrolyte, thereby eliminating the need to provide a water feed system for the fuel cell.

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n-Hexadecane Fuel for a Phosphoric Acid Direct Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell

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Performance analysis of hybrid solar chimney–power plant for power production and seawater desalination: A sustainable approach

Performance analysis of hybrid solar chimney–power plant for power production and seawater desalination: A sustainable approach

Enhancing the Wettability of Polyetheretherketone (Peek) Membrane with Ozone for Improving Fuel Cell Performance

Petroleum Diesel and Biodiesel Fuels Used in a Direct Hydrocarbon Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell

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