Summary of the invention
The technical problem that the present invention solves is, a kind of solid-oxide fuel cell stack is provided, and compared with prior art, this battery pile not only avoids fuel gas and oxidant gas to collaborate, and effectively prevent that battery from producing the problem of short circuit, thereby guarantee the operation stability of battery pile.
In order to solve above technical problem, the invention provides a kind of solid-oxide fuel cell stack, comprising:
Upper collector plate, lower header plate and be contained in the stacked structure between described upper collector plate and lower header plate;
Described stacked structure comprises at least two connectors, is arranged on the cell piece between two adjacent described connectors, described connector has anode-side and cathode side, anode-side at described connector is provided with oxidizing gas seal, at the cathode side of described connector, is provided with fuel gas seal;
On described stacked structure, be provided with airtight oxidizing gas inlet channel, airtight fuel gas inlet channel and airtight fuel gas outlet passageway, and unlimited oxidizing gas outlet passageway.
Preferably, the both sides of described connector are provided with the salient point of dot matrix arrangement and are arranged on described salient point sealing strip around.
Preferably, the sealing strip of described connector cathode side has peristome, and described peristome and described fuel gas seal form described unlimited oxidizing gas outlet passageway.
Preferably, described airtight oxidizing gas inlet channel by being arranged on oxidizing gas air admission hole on described oxidizing gas seal, be arranged on oxidizing gas air admission hole on described cell piece, be arranged on oxidizing gas air admission hole on described connector and be communicated with and form.
Preferably, described airtight fuel gas runner by being arranged on fuel gas air admission hole on described fuel gas seal, be arranged on fuel gas air admission hole on described cell piece, be arranged on fuel gas air admission hole on described connector and be communicated with and form.
Preferably, described fuel gas outlet passageway by being arranged on fuel gas venthole on described oxidizing gas seal, be arranged on fuel gas venthole on described cell piece, be arranged on fuel gas venthole on described connector and be communicated with and form.
Preferably, the height that is the salient point of dot matrix arrangement described in is 0.3~1.0mm.
Preferably, the ratio that effective contact area that the salient point that on described connector, dot matrix is arranged contacts with the element of this side of connector accounts for described connector lateralarea is 10%~50%.
Preferably, the width of described sealing strip is 2mm~15mm.
Preferably, described upper collector plate, stacked structure and lower header plate are connected by bolt assembly.
Of the present inventionly provide a kind of solid-oxide fuel cell stack, this battery pile comprises airtight oxidizing gas inlet channel, airtight fuel gas inlet channel, airtight fuel gas outlet passageway and unlimited oxidizing gas outlet passageway.The invention provides the oxidizing gas import sealing in battery pile, outlet is opened wide.Importing and exporting sealing completely with oxidizing gas of the prior art compares, because oxidizing gas outlet is opened wide, internal gas pressure reduction is less, mobile more smooth and easy, has effectively solved the possibility that fuel and oxidizing gas are collaborated mutually, has further improved stability and the output performance of pile operation.Compare with the structure of the complete open type of oxidizing gas of the prior art, the present invention is without additional designs oxidizing gas snout cavity, thereby can avoid causing the problems such as pile short circuit.
Embodiment
In order further to understand the present invention, below in conjunction with embodiment, the preferred embodiment of the invention is described, but should be appreciated that these are described is for further illustrating the features and advantages of the present invention, rather than limiting to the claimed invention.
Refer to Fig. 1, for a kind of execution mode schematic diagram of solid-oxide fuel cell stack provided by the invention, comprise collector plate 1 and lower header plate 2 and be contained in the stacked structure 3 between described upper collector plate and lower header plate, upper collector plate 1 and lower header plate 2 pressurize fixing by screw arbor assembly, screw arbor assembly is preferably the screw arbor assembly of metal material.In present embodiment, screw arbor assembly 4 comprises screw rod 41 and two bolts 42, on four limits of upper collector plate, preprocessing has the screw rod of positioning screw to support 1a, on four limits of lower header plate also preprocessing have with described on the screw rod of collector plate support screw rod corresponding to 1a position and support.By screw rod be positioned at screw rod support 1a upper after, from upper collector plate outside and lower header plate outside, in two outer ends of screw rod, screw in bolts respectively, then by screwing bolt, upper collector plate, stacked structure, lower header plate are pressurizeed and are fixed.It is fixing that the present invention adopts screw arbor assembly that upper collector plate, lower header plate and stacked structure are pressurizeed at normal temperatures, and this kind of structure is convenient to dismounting, is conducive to mass assembling and produces.
Referring to Fig. 2, is the schematic diagram of solid-oxide fuel cell stack the second execution mode provided by the invention.Be with the difference of the first execution mode, the battery pile of present embodiment has been carried out further improvement to the fixedly pressuring method of upper collector plate, lower header plate and stacked structure.
In present embodiment, screw arbor assembly comprises screw rod 42, is connected to the first screw rod fixture 41 and the second screw rod fixture 42 at described screw rod two ends, described the first screw rod fixture 41 and the second screw rod fixture 42 are arranged on the inner side of collector plate and lower header plate, described upper collector plate 1, stacked structure 3, lower header plate 3 are pressurizeed fixing.Described two screw rod fixtures 41,42 have identical structure, below take the first screw rod fixture 41 and describe as example.The first screw rod fixture has a screw rod end 41a and the screw thread nose end 41b corresponding with described screw rod end, and the two ends of described screw rod 42 coordinate with the screw thread nose end of described two screw rod fixtures respectively.The screw rod end of described two screw rod fixtures is fixed from the interior sideway swivel of upper collector plate and lower header plate respectively; In collector plate and dirty version, be processed with respectively the screwed hole matching with the screw rod end of described two screw rod fixtures on described, by rotating two screw rod fixtures and screw rod, can realize the pressurization of upper collector plate, lower header plate and stacked structure is fixed like this.Compare with the first execution mode, the advantage of the second execution mode is that the outside of upper collector plate and lower header plate does not have bolt to protrude, and therefore more easily realizes the serial or parallel connection of battery pile.
In the second execution mode, screw arbor assembly can be metal material, can be also non-metallic material, as engineering plastics or composite material.When screw arbor assembly is metal material, battery pile is carried out, before high temperature test, need to laying down screw arbor assembly; When screw arbor assembly is non-metallic material during as composite material, before high temperature test, do not need to lay down screw arbor assembly, therefore more convenient to operate.Refer to Fig. 3, fractionation schematic diagram for the solid-oxide fuel cell stack described in Fig. 1, described stacked structure comprises a plurality of connectors 11, three connectors have been shown in Fig. 3, the effect of connector is for separating fuel gas and oxidizing gas, fuel gas is hydrogen in the present embodiment, and oxidizing gas is air.
The material of connector can be made by stainless steel well known to those skilled in the art, and stainless object lesson can be the connector of the materials such as Fe-16Cr, Fe-22Cr, and concrete model is as SUS430, but is not limited to this.For the quantity of connector, at least should be two, can be also two or more, can decide according to the quantity of the monocell of design the quantity of connector.Conventionally, the quantity of connector is greater than 1 than the quantity of monocell, and monocell is arranged between two adjacent connectors; Top and the bottom of stacked structure are connector, and top connector contacts with upper collector plate, and bottom connector contacts with next part fluid layer.The thickness of described connector is preferably 0.8mm~4mm, more preferably 1.0mm~3mm, more preferably 1.2mm~2.8mm, more preferably 1.5mm~2.5mm.
Please continue referring to Fig. 3, between two adjacent connectors, be provided with monocell 12; Connector 11 has two first type surfaces, for convenience of description, connector, in the face of a first type surface of monocell cathode side is called the cathode side of connector, is called another first type surface corresponding with cathode side to the anode-side of connector; Anode-side at connector is provided with oxidizing gas seal 13, at the cathode side of connector, is provided with fuel gas seal 14.
Described oxidizing gas seal and fuel gas seal are same material, have different structure (describing in detail below), can use seal glass well known to those skilled in the art, if general formula conventional in this area is A
2o
3-SiO
2the seal glass of-BO system, the A in general formula represents Al, B, La or Te element, the B in general formula represents Mg, Zn, Sr, Ca or F element.
On the anode-side of connector and two first type surfaces of cathode side, all processed the salient point that dot matrix is arranged, the cross sectional shape of salient point can be for cylindrical, also can, for triangle, Long Circle, rectangle and polygon arbitrarily, this present invention be not particularly limited.
The adding of screw arbor assembly that act on of above-mentioned connector salient point, depresses with the element such as cell cathode, nickel foam, upper collector plate/lower header plate and contacts, and produces afflux effect.The salient point that dot matrix is arranged can adopt the method for etching well known to those skilled in the art or punching press to realize, and the hole between salient point is as the passage of fuel gas or oxidizing gas, and the height of salient point is preferably 0.3~1.0mm, more preferably 0.4~0.9mm.Salient point when pressurization and cell cathode, nickel foam, on the effective area that contacts of the element such as collector plate/lower header plate account for 10%~50% of connector area, be preferably 15%~45%.It is inner that the bump structure of the present invention's design is easy to enter cell cathode afflux layer, thereby increased catchment effect, improves pile output performance.
The surrounding of the salient point of arranging at the dot matrix of two first type surfaces of connector is processed with sealing strip, and the effect of sealing strip is to contact the object that reaches sealing with seal.In the present invention, the sealing strip of the anode-side of connector has different structures from the sealing strip of cathode side, below describes in detail.
As shown in Figure 4, be the structural representation of connector cathode side, on the cathode side of connector, adopt etching method to process the salient point 11a that dot matrix is arranged, the salient point of arranging at dot matrix preprocessing around goes out cathode side sealing strip 101; Described cathode side sealing strip 101 comprises the first 101a corresponding with a side of connector, the second portion 101b and the third part 101c that are connected with described first two ends, the corresponding part of the 101a of Yu first is opened wide, have a peristome, negative electrode sealing strip is a unlimited sealing strip.The height of salient point and sealing strip preferably maintains an equal level, and can salient point effectively be contacted fully with other element maintenance reaching in better sealing effectiveness situation like this.
It between the 101a of first of salient point and described sealing strip, is ventilation groove 111, width and the air vent hole diameter ratio of ventilation groove are preferably 1/5~1, the degree of depth of ventilation groove is corresponding with bump height, be preferably 0.3~1.0mm, the effect of ventilation groove is as gas overall channel, to the air between salient point, feeds gas; Described air vent hole refers to the air vent hole processing from opposite side sealing strip, at cathode side, is oxidizing gas air vent hole.
On described second portion 101b and third part 101c, be reserved with respectively the position for fabricate fuel gas air admission hole and fuel gas venthole, like this, can on second portion 101b, process fuel gas air admission hole 101d, on third part 101b, process fuel gas venthole 101e.Please be simultaneously referring to Fig. 5, schematic diagram for fuel gas seal 14, on fuel gas seal, be processed with respectively fuel gas air admission hole 14a and the fuel gas venthole 14b corresponding with the position of fuel gas air admission hole 101d on described connector and fuel gas venthole 101e, after like this fuel gas seal being fitted on cathode side sealing strip 101, fuel gas can be sealed in beyond cathode side, prevent that fuel gas from sneaking into this region.In addition, because cathode side sealing strip 101 opens wide, therefore fit after fuel gas seal 101, this unlimited part can be not sealed yet, can be used as like this exit passageway of unlimited oxidizing gas.
As shown in Figure 6, structural representation for connector anode-side, the same with cathode side, adopt the method for etching or punching press to process the salient point 11b that dot matrix is arranged, the salient point of arranging at dot matrix preprocessing around goes out anode-side sealing strip 102, anode-side sealing strip 102 comprises the four part 102a corresponding with the 101a of first, the 5th part 102b and the 6th part 102c that are connected with described the 4th part two ends, the 7th part 102d that connects described the 5th part 102b and the 6th part 102c, different from negative electrode sealing strip, anode seal limit is the sealing strip of a sealing, the height of salient point and sealing strip maintains an equal level.
Between the 5th part 102b of salient point and described sealing strip and the 6th part, be ventilation groove 112, this ventilation groove is identical with the ventilation groove structure of cathode side, does not repeat them here.The effect of ventilation groove 112 is as fuel gas overall channel, and the fuel gas that fuel gas air admission hole is entered feeds in the gap between salient point, or the fuel gas in the gap between salient point is sent to fuel gas venthole.
On described the 4th part 102a, be reserved with for processing the position of oxidizing gas air admission hole, in this position, can process oxidizing gas air admission hole 102e; Please be simultaneously referring to Fig. 7, schematic diagram for oxidizing gas seal 13, on oxidizing gas seal, be processed with oxidizing gas and enter hole 13a, after this oxidizing gas seal is fitted on anode-side sealing strip, oxidizing gas can be sealed in beyond anode-side, prevent that oxidizing gas from sneaking into this region.In addition, fuel gas can through the hole between the salient point in this region, then can be discharged from fuel gas venthole 101e from fuel gas air admission hole 101d enters, and fuel gas channel all seals.
Width for above-mentioned anode-side sealing strip or cathode side sealing strip, is preferably 2mm~15mm, more preferably 3mm~10mm, more preferably 4mm~9mm.
In the stacked structure of present embodiment, the salient point on the cathode side of the top connector of stacked structure contacts with upper collector plate, between the sealing strip of this cathode side and upper collector plate, by fuel gas seal, carries out sealing-in; Salient point in the anode-side of the bottom connector of stacked structure contacts with lower header plate, between the sealing strip of this anode-side and lower header plate, by oxidizing gas seal, carries out sealing-in.
According to the present invention, in stacked structure, the cathode side of connector carries out sealing-in by the negative electrode of fuel gas seal and battery, the anode-side of connector is carried out sealing-in by the anode of oxidizing gas seal and battery, between the anode-side of connector and the anode of battery, be also provided with nickel foam, as shown in Figure 8, be the structural representation of nickel foam, in nickel foam, also need to process oxidizing gas air inlet gap.
In addition, in order to assemble the stacked structure of said structure, need on monocell, also process the hole corresponding with oxidizing gas air admission hole, fuel gas air admission hole, fuel gas venthole on connector, to form gas passage.For monocell, can use anode-supported flat-plate solid-oxide individual fuel cell, also can use dielectric support solid oxide fuel monocell, the shape of monocell is not limit, and is preferably square.
Solid-oxide fuel cell stack provided by the invention can be prepared as follows:
On monocell, preferably using the mode of laser cutting to process 3 holes, respectively as oxidizing gas air admission hole, fuel gas air admission hole and fuel gas venthole, as shown in Figure 9, is monocell anode surface schematic diagram, and Figure 10 is monocell cathode plane schematic diagram;
Get the connector of the good salient point of etching or punching press, on the position corresponding with 3 holes of described monocell, also process three holes, respectively as oxidizing gas air admission hole, fuel gas air admission hole and fuel gas venthole;
Get seal glass and process a hole on the corresponding position of the oxidizing gas air admission hole with described connector, then as oxidizing gas seal; Separately get seal glass and process two holes on the fuel gas air admission hole with described connector and the corresponding position of fuel gas venthole, then as fuel gas seal;
Get nickel foam and process gap on the corresponding position of the oxidizing gas air admission hole with described connector, as oxidizing gas inlet channel.
Get the above-mentioned connector processing, monocell, oxidizing gas seal, fuel gas seal, nickel foam, upper collector plate, lower header plate and bolt and be assembled into the solid-oxide fuel cell stack shown in Fig. 1, single cell units number can need to be selected according to design, and to this present invention, there is no particular restriction.Then, can to stack performance, test according to method well known to those skilled in the art.
With specific embodiment, effect of the present invention is described below, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited by the following examples.
Embodiment 1:
Prepare following element standby:
Monocell: the anode-supported monocell sheet that preparation specification is 10cm * 10cm, anode is, negative electrode is to adopt the method for laser cutting on an edge part of monocell, to process oxidizing gas air admission hole, on two the perpendicular edge parts with described oxidizing gas air admission hole place edge part, process fuel gas air admission hole and fuel gas venthole;
Connector: material is SUS430, thickness is 2.5mm, in the anode-side of this connector and cathode side, etches the boss point that dot matrix is arranged (dot matrix arrangement), the height of the boss point of two sides is 0.5mm; Shown in Fig. 4 and Fig. 6, process respectively anode-side sealing strip and cathode side sealing strip that width is 3.5mm, wherein cathode side sealing strip has an opened portion.
Adopt the mode of laser cutting to process respectively fuel gas air admission hole, fuel gas venthole, oxidizing gas air admission hole in described fuel gas air admission hole position, fuel gas venthole position, oxidizing gas air admission hole position;
Oxidizing gas seal: get Al
2o
3-SiO
2the concrete model of-MgO(seal glass or composition) seal glass processes oxidizing gas air admission hole on the position corresponding with oxidizing gas air admission hole on described connector;
Fuel gas seal: get Al
2o
3-SiO
2the concrete model of-MgO(seal glass or composition) seal glass processes respectively fuel gas air admission hole and fuel gas venthole on position empty with fuel gas air inlet on connector, that fuel gas venthole is corresponding;
Nickel foam: process oxidizing gas air admission hole and fuel gas runner hole;
Upper collector plate, employing SUS430 is material, the method for machining on three limits of upper collector plate respectively preprocessing go out the screw arbor assembly for pressurizeing;
Lower header plate, employing SUS430 is material, on three limits of lower header plate, preprocessing goes out the screw arbor assembly for pressurizeing respectively.
Embodiment 2
Get collector plate, lower header plate and 5 connectors, 5 oxidizing gas seals, 5 fuel gas seals, 4 monocells, 4 nickel foam and according to the der group of upper collector plate/fuel gas seal/(connector/oxidizing gas seal (nickel foam)/monocell) * 4/ connector/oxidizing gas seal/lower header plate, dress up the battery pile assembly of Unit 4, then get bolt assembly and will fix collector plate and lower header plate.
Battery pile assembly after assembling was warming up to 850 ℃ from room temperature through 12 hours, is incubated 0~200kg test performance under different condition that pressurizes after 4 hours, the I-V curve obtaining as shown in figure 11.
In Figure 11: when battery pile prepared by the present embodiment is at 850 ℃, 200kg pressure and H
2: Air=8:19sccmcm
-2under condition, after reductase 12 hour, the maximum power when recording electric current and being 32A is 79.6W, and corresponding maximum power density is 0.306Wcm
-2.Work as H
2: Air=8:19sccmcm
-2time, the maximum power when recording electric current and being 39A is 100.5W, corresponding maximum power density is 0.385Wcm
-2; The maximum power density that obtains battery pile prepared by the present embodiment according to the curve in Figure 11 is 0.427Wcm
-2, the open circuit voltage>=4.1V of battery pile, battery pile prepared by the present embodiment has higher power density.
Keep H
2: Air=12:31sccmcm
-2gas flow is constant, and stack temperature is down to 800 ℃ by 850oC through 50min, is incubated after 1.5 hours, records maximum power 89W when electric current is 38A, and corresponding maximum power density is 0.342W cm
-2.
Embodiment 2
Get collector plate, lower header plate and 6 connectors, 6 oxidizing gas seals, 6 fuel gas seals, 5 monocells, 5 nickel foam and according to the der group of upper collector plate/fuel gas seal/(connector/oxidizing gas seal (nickel foam)/monocell) * 5/ connector/oxidizing gas seal/lower header plate, dress up the battery pile assembly of Unit 5, then get bolt assembly and will fix collector plate and lower header plate.
Battery pile assembly after assembling was warming up to 850 ℃ from room temperature through 12 hours, is incubated 0~400kg test I-V curve that pressurizes after 4 hours.After being completed, I-V curve at 800 ℃, it is carried out under 8A condition attenuation test, result as shown in Figure 12 and Figure 13, Figure 12 is battery pile overall attenuation curve, Figure 13 is the attenuation curve of the monocell in battery pile, from the result of Figure 12 and Figure 13, can find out, the not decay after the test of 75h of this battery pile and cell heap unit thereof, stops after constant-current discharge, the open circuit voltage of battery pile has reached 5.7V, and the open circuit voltage of cell reaches and all surpassed 1.1V.
Above Solid Oxide Fuel Cell provided by the present invention is described in detail.Applied specific case herein principle of the present invention and execution mode are set forth, the explanation of above embodiment is just for helping to understand method of the present invention and core concept thereof.It should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, under the premise without departing from the principles of the invention, can also carry out some improvement and modification to the present invention, these improvement and modification also fall in the protection range of the claims in the present invention.