Tubular solid oxide fuel cell development program

TL;DR: An overview of the Westinghouse Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) development activities and current program status can be found in this article, where the authors describe the development efforts to reduce cost and increase power output of tubular SOFCs.

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the Westinghouse Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) development activities and current program status. The Westinghouse goal is to develop a cost effective cell that can operate for 50,000 to 100,000 hours. Progress toward this goal will be discussed and test results presented for multiple single cell tests which have now successfully exceeded 56,000 hours of continuous power operation at temperature. Results of development efforts to reduce cost and increase power output of tubular SOFCs are described.