AC:DC
Project info
Innovation project ’AC:DC ’
Mar – Dec 2019
120,000 DKK under ’Teknologisamarbejde i Region Sjælland’
“DTU Risø Reaktor”
Case no. RFS-17-0012
In the project solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) were tested with a new operation method called AC:DC. The operation method decrease the degradation rate for SOECs. In the graph below AC:DC operation was used on SOEC cells from DTU Energy to conduct steam electrolysis. With AC:DC operation the cell resistance was constant after a 50 hour initiation period. In contrast, for conventional operation, the resistance increase with time.
AC:DC operation was also conducted with CO2 electrolysis for 600 hours. Here AC:DC operation was shown to reduce the degradation rate from 39 mΩcm2 per 1,000 hour to 5 mΩcm2 per 1,000 hour and to increase the impurity tolerance.
Microscopy data suggests the stable resistance with AC:DC operation is related to a removal of Nickel migration, which limits the lifetime of conventional operated SOECs.
The AC:DC operation method is patented by DynElectro ApS. Further info about the AC:DC operation method can be found in the published patent application.