A Review on Miniaturization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Power Sources-II: From System to Material

摘要

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is an electrochemical power source that meets the technical expectations for no or low emission and high energy efficiency in future hydrogen economy or renewable energy economy. The high fuel flexibility of SOFC permits the SOFC technology to establish and expand its market niche and to serve as a primary power generation technology in a long transition period. SOFC technology is expected to play an important role in this transition period in circumventing the problems of energy shortage and energy consumption related emissions when the capacity of the renewable energy production is still small. SOFC technology would play an essential role in facilitating the transition from current nonrenewable energy technologies to hydrogen energy technologies that harness unlimited renewable energy sources.