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Freeze Casting of Tubular Sulfur Tolerant Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911NF-17-C-0087
Agency Tracking Number: A2-6801
Amount: $999,971.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: A14A-T011
Solicitation Number: 2014.0
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2017
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2017-09-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2018-09-17
Small Business Information
631 Barbrow Lane
Knoxville, TN 37932
United States
DUNS: 964860451
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Drew Spradling
 Director, Product Development
 (865) 966-2170
 drew.spradling@millennitek.com
Business Contact
 Jennifer Todd
Phone: (865) 966-2170
Email: jennifer.todd@millennitek.com
Research Institution
 Georgia Institute of Technology
 Dr. Meilin Liu
 
School of Materials Science and Engineering 771 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA, TN 30332
United States

 (404) 894-6114
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Solid oxide fuel cells have long suffered from degradation due to impurities in the fuel and complexities associated with dissimilar materials and high operating temperatures.This degradation lowers the usable cell power output and requires ancillary equipment for fuel sulfur removal and reformation.A unique microstructure for the tubular anode will be produced using a novel freeze-casting technique, which will increase the cell triple phase boundary area and result in higher power density.An infiltration of the freeze-cast anode with a newly discovered mixed metal oxide catalyst promises to significantly increase the sulfur and coking tolerance of the anode.In the proposed effort, freeze-cast SOFC tubes will be produced using varying freeze casting formulations and parameters to optimize the pore morphology and then infiltrated with the novel catalyst material.Extensive single cell and stack performance testing will be completed, and a portable 250 W SOFC generator will be designed, built, and tested using the freeze-cast tubular technology.

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