Solid oxide electrolysis cell with test apparatus

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a solid oxide fuel cell test apparatus for a solid oxide electrolysis cell with a tubular evaporator furnished in the fuel delivery mechanism of the solid oxide fuel cell test apparatus being connected in serial to an external water supply, and the tubular evaporator having multilayer porous internal filler material may facilitate the inflow of water to be uniformly diffused and heated, providing a stable water vapor for introducing into the fuel cell with the fuel, mitigating adverse effects caused by pulse voltages to the fuel cell during high-temperature water electrolysis hydrogen test, so that more reliable test is achievable in order to obtain a solid oxide fuel cell with hydrogen generation from the water electrolysis.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A solid oxide electrolysis cell test apparatus, comprising
 a carrier mechanism, a gas delivery mechanism, a fuel delivery mechanism and a tubular evaporator, wherein the carrier mechanism has two opposing shunt plates, an anode shunt plate, a cathode shunt plate,   wherein the cathode shunt plate toward one side of the anode shunt plate is provided with a cathode electricity collector grid, a cathode voltage line and a cathode current line passing through the cathode shunt plate in communication with the cathode electricity collector grid, and   the anode shunt plate toward one side of the cathode shunt plate is provided with a anode electricity collector grid, an anode voltage line, and an anode current line passing through the anode shunt plate in communication with the anode electricity collector grid, and   a cell unit is provided between the cathode and the anode electricity collector grid, the cathode of the unit cell is in contact with a cathode voltage line and a cathodic current line, and the anode of the cell unit is in contact with a anode voltage and anode current line;   the gas delivery mechanism is provided on one side of the carrier mechanism, which includes a cathode gas conduit connecting to the cathode shunt plate, a 3-way manifold connected at the other end of the cathode gas conduit, and a cell unit cathode thermal couple connected at the other end of the 3-way manifold;   the fuel delivery mechanism is provided on the other side of the carrier mechanism, which includes a anode gas conduit connecting to the anode shunt plate, a 3-way manifold connected at the other end of the anode gas conduit, and a cell unit anode thermal couple connected at the other end of the 3-way manifold;   characterized in that: the cell unit is connected with an external direct current power supply via the cathode current line and the anode current line, the tubular evaporator communicates with one end of the fuel delivery mechanism at one end of the fuel manifold, the other end of the tubular evaporator communicates to an external water source via a water feed line, and   when the carrier mechanism is placed in a high-temperature furnace, the heat generated by the high-temperature furnace is exploited for heating the water introduced from the outside source into the tubular evaporator, converting the water into steam, and feeding into the anode gas conduit via the fuel 3-way manifold together with the fuel.   
     
     
         2 . The solid oxide electrolysis cell test apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the tubular evaporator is provided with multilayer porous filler material inside, and the water pipeline is in connection with the porous filler material. 
     
     
         3 . The solid oxide electrolysis cell test apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the multilayer porous filler material is a metal mesh. 
     
     
         4 . The solid oxide electrolysis cell test apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the carrier mechanism is accessible from external.