This work presents a new electrolysis-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) diaphragm actuator. Electrolysis is a technique for converting electrical energy to pneumatic energy. Theoretically electrolysis can achieve a strain of 136 000% and is capable of generating a pressure above 200 MPa. Electrolysis actuators require modest electrical power and produce minimal heat. Due to the large ...

We present a techno-economic analysis of solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis systems used for the production of hydrogen and synthesis gas. We consider different strategies for the incorporation of solar energy, distinguished by the use of differing technologies to provide solar power and heat: (i) thermal approaches (system 1) using concentrated solar technologies to provide heat and to...

The steam-pretreatment on ordered-mesoporous carbon (OMC) catalysts was conducted to improve the catalytic properties for silicon tetrachloride (STC) to trichlorosilane (TCS) conversion. The surface area, pore size and pore volume of OMC were significantly changed as a function of pretreatment temperature. The steam-pretreated OMC at 500 degrees C exhibited the high surface area (-1476.4 m2/g) ...

This paper reports the performance of nickel oxide based electrode in alkaline anion exchange membrane water electrolysis. The membrane used is polystyrene based alkaline membrane and the electrode used is Nickel as cathode and Nickel oxide as anode. The electrochemical activity of the Nickel oxide is high compared to uncoated electrode. The AWE membrane electrode gave high current density at 3...

At present, the cascade PID control is widely used to control the superheating temperature (main steam temperature). As Main Steam Temperature has the characteristics of large inertia, large time-delay and time varying, etc., conventional PID control strategy cannot achieve good control performance. In order to overcome the bad performance and deficiencies of main steam temperature control syst...

Porous composite anodes consisting of a yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) backbone that was impregnated with CeO2 and various amounts of metallic components including Cu, Co and Pd were fabricated. The performance of these anodes was then tested in a solid oxide water electrolysis cell under conditions where the anode was exposed to the reducing gasses H2, CH4 and CO. The reducing gasses were us...

*Correspondence: Victor M. Orera, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 10, Zaragoza 50009, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Higher energetic density, better resistance to thermal stresses, and smaller starting times as compared with conventional planar stacks, make the so-called microtubular SOFC (mT-SOFCs with diameters in the millimeter size region) devices suitable for portable applica...

One promising way of facing recent challenges to slow down the climate crisis or reduce dependencies on fossil energy sources, e.g. natural gas, is using renewable methane and other e-fuels for storage distribution via existing infrastructure. Solid oxide cell (SOC) reactors play an important role in conversion sustainable electric power into chemicals as they can be obtained from combined stea...

The Ni/YSZ composite electrode is conventionally used for solid oxide cells, in electrolysis (SOEC) as well fuel cell (SOFC) operation. For enhanced electrochemical performance at low temperature, mechanical durability, and impurity tolerance, alternative materials configurations are required. In this paper we have studied a metal supported (MSC) with titanate based (La 0.4 Sr Fe 0.03 Ni Ti 0.9...