Method for producing electricity from a fuel cell having solid-oxide ionic electrolyte

Patent · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:865090

Mason, David M.

Stabilized quadrivalent cation oxide electrolytes are employed in fuel cells at elevated temperatures with a carbon and/or hydrogen containing fuel anode and an oxygen cathode. The fuel cell is operated at elevated temperatures with conductive metallic coatings as electrodes and desirably having the electrolyte surface blackened. Of particular interest as the quadrivalent oxide is zirconia.

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-79ER10492
• Assignee: Board of Trustees, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 4,459,340
• Application Number: 06/373,759
• OSTI ID: 865090
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 1982 Apr 30
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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