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Details

Inventors: Mason, David M.;
Assignee: Board of Trustees, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Primary Examiner: LeFevour; Charles F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Rowland; Bertram I.

Stabilized quadrivalent cation oxide electrolytes are employed in fuel cells at elevated temperatures with a carbon and/or hydrogen containing fuel anode and an oxygen cathode. The fuel cell is operated at elevated temperatures with conductive metallic coatings as electrodes and desirably having the electrolyte surface blackened. Of particular interest as the quadrivalent oxide is zirconia.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A method of producing electicity with a fuel cell having first and second electrodes in electrical contact with a solid stabilized fluorite metal oxide electrolyte wherein said electrodes are non-catalytic, said method comprising contacting a first porous anode electrode with a fuel capable of being oxidized and a second porous cathode electrode with oxygen at a temperature below 1,000.
degree.
C.
; and drawing electrical current from said electrodes.
2.
A method according to claim 1, wherein said temperature is in the range of about 700.
degree.
to 850.
degree.
C.
3.
A method according to claim 1, wherein said electrolyte is a stabilized zirconia.
4.
A method according to claim 3, wherein said zirconia is yttria-stabilized zirconia.
5.
A method according to claim 3, wherein said stabilized zirconia is scandia-stabilized zirconia.
6.
A method according to any of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein said fuel contains hydrogen or carbon in an oxidizable state.
7.
A method according to claim 1, wherein said fuel is incompletely oxidized to produce a useful product, and including the additional step of isolating said product.
8.
A method for producing electricity from a fuel cell, employing as a fuel cell a stabilized zirconia electrolyte having an inert electrically conducting metal coated on each of its sides to provide an anode and a cathode wherein said metal is non-catalytic, said method comprising: feeding a hydrogen or carbon-containing fuel in an oxidizable state to said porous anode and oxygen to said porous cathode at a temperature in the range of about 700.
degree.
to about 850.
degree.
C.
; and drawing electrical current from said electrodes.
9.
A method according to claim 8, wherein said stabilized electrolyte is yttria-stabilized zirconia.
10.
A method according to claim 8, wherein said stabilized zirconia is scandia-stabilized zirconia.
11.
A method according to claim 8, wherein the surface of said electrolyte is blackened.
12.
A method of producing electricity with a fuel cell having first and second electrodes in electrical contact with a solid stabilized fluorite metal oxide electrolyte blackened on at least one side, said method comprising: contacting a first porous anode electrode with a fuel capable of being oxidized and a second porous cathode electrode with oxygen at a temperature below 1000

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