Plastic waste fuelled solid oxide fuel cell system for power and carbon nanotube cogeneration

Weizi Cai; Peipei Liu; Bin Chen; Haoran Xu; Zhijun Liu; Qian Zhou; Fangyong Yu; Meilin Liu; Meina Chen; Jiang Liu; Meng Ni

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.11.159

Plastic waste fuelled solid oxide fuel cell system for power and carbon nanotube cogeneration

Weizi Cai, Peipei Liu, Bin Chen, Haoran Xu, Zhijun Liu, Qian Zhou, Fangyong Yu, Meilin Liu, Meina Chen, Jiang Liu, Meng Ni

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Abstract

This paper reports a novel process for simultaneous power generation and green treatment of plastic waste by a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) integrated with pyrolysis-gasification processes. With an electrolyte-supported configuration, the SOFC delivers a power output of 71 mW cm ⁻² at 800 °C, which is improved to 280 mW cm ⁻² after applying reforming catalyst. The microstructures and properties of the reforming catalyst before and after operation, the components of the pyrolysis products of plastic waste, and the mechanism and effect of the reforming catalyst to the SOFC are analysed and discussed in detail. In addition, carbon nanotubes are observed in the catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste, suggesting it is also a potential technology for electricity-carbon nanotube cogeneration. This work demonstrates the feasibility of SOFCs for electricity-carbon nanotube cogeneration and green treatments of municipal solid wastes simultaneously.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1867-1876
Number of pages	10
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.11.159
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2019

Keywords

Plastic wastes
Pyrolysis-gasification
Reforming catalyst
Solid oxide fuel cell
Solid wastes treatment

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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Plastic waste fuelled solid oxide fuel cell system for power and carbon nanotube cogeneration

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