Production Oriented Precess Engineering vor Establishing Reliable SOFC Cell and Stack Manufacturing

• Research unit: SFOE
• Project number: 100367

Key words (German)

TP0076;F-Brennstoffzellen

Short description (German)

Production Oriented Precess Engineering vor Establishing Reliable SOFC Cell and Stack Manufacturing

Final report (English)

HTceramix?s production technology has been validated on the laboratory scale, but frequently required the intervention of scientific personnel in several steps. The objective of this project is to adapt the SOFC production techniques to the requirements of pilot production environment, i.e. PhD independent processes fulfilling minimum levels of reproducibility. Processes have been stabilized, reproducibility has reached a minimum level and several processes have been scaled up. An experienced process engineer has analyzed and adapted the laboratory manufacturing route to achieve process stability and reproducibility on pilot manufacturing scale. Critical steps that had to be adapted were powder processing, tape casting and sintering. Also the extent of use and losses of expensive raw materials have been reduced.Considerable efforts where invested in formalizing best practices on laboratory scale to define a base-line for continuous production. External supply of powders allowed stabilizing the product, though on a lower performance level. A quality chain has been put in place for all manufacturing steps. The project has reached its goal in terms of quality assurance, product traceability and production capacity.

Auftragnehmer/Contractant/Contraente/Contractor:
HTceramix SA

Autorschaft/Auteurs/Autori/Authors:
Bucheli,Olivier
Tagliaferri,Enrico

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