Molten carbonate fuel cell technology

H.C. Mam, L. Paetsch, A. Pigeaud, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology, edited by R.J. Selman and T.D. Claar, The Electrochemical Society, Inc., Pennington, NJ, Pg. 20, 1984. 

Development of Improved Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology," Final Report prepared by United Technologies Corp. for the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, under Contract RP 1085-4, July 1983. 

W.H. Johnson, "Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology Improvement," Quarterly Technical Progress Report No. 23 for the Period Ending May, 1990, prepared for US DOE/METC, DOE/MC/23270-2923, September 1990. 

T. Tanaka, et al., "Development of Internal Reforming Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology," in Proceedings of the 25th lECEC, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY, August 1990. 

Molten carbonate fuel cell technology was developed based on the work of Bauers and Ehrenberg, Davy tan, and Broers and Ketelaar in the 1940s [8], The electrolyte is a molten salt such as sodium carbonate, borax, or cryolite. This type of fuel cell requires a high temperature to keep the electrolyte in a molten state. The following 30-40 years saw great successes, with the development of MCFCs and MCFC stacks that could be operated for over 5000 hours. 

OPTIMIZATION OF MOLTEN CARBONATE FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY... 

Pierce, R.D. Smith, J.L. Poeppel, R.B. A review of cathode development for molten carbonate fuel cells. In Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology, Proceedings Electrochemical Society, 1984 Vol. 84-13, 147-174. 

Maru, H.C. Paetsch, L. Pigeaud, A. Review of molten carbonate fuel cell matrix technology. Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology, PV. 84-13 Electrochemical Society Inc. Pennington, NJ, 1984 20-53. 

Extended Abstracts of Electrochemical Society Meetings, especially Vol. 80-2, Hollywood (1980) which includes a Symposium on Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology. 

Bosio, B., Costamagna, P., Parodi, F., and Passalacqua, B. (1998) Industrial experience on the development of the molten carbonate fuel cell technology. 

The section on intermediate temperature fuel cells has just one entry on each fuel cell type. With decreasing operation temperature, the Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell technology is critically discussed (Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells) before two related systems relying on the unique protrui conducting properties of phosphoric acid are described. While the well-established phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) is developed for stationary applications (Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells for Stationary Applications), polybenzimidazole (used as a matrix for phosphoric acid) fuel cells even have some potential for mobile and small applications (Polybenzimidazole Fuel Cell Technology). 

Molten carbonate fuel cell technology is being actively developed in the USA, Asia, and Europe. An example system is the 250-kW Hot Module of MTU Filedrichshafen shown... 

Tanaka, T, Matsumura, M., Gonjo, Y., Hirai, C., Okada, T. and Miyazaki, M. Development of Internal Reforming Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology , FYoceedings of the 25 Intersoc. Energy Conv. Eng. Conf., Vol. 3, pp. 201, Reno, NV, 1990. 

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