Publication Date:
2018-08-01
Description:
Energies, Vol. 11, Pages 1985: Design, Construction, and Testing of a Gasifier-Specific Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System Energies doi: 10.3390/en11081985 Authors: Alvaro Fernandes Joerg Brabandt Oliver Posdziech Ali Saadabadi Mayra Recalde Liyuan Fan Eva O. Promes Ming Liu Theo Woudstra Purushothaman Vellayan Aravind This paper describes the steps involved in the design, construction, and testing of a gasifier-specific solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system. The design choices are based on reported thermodynamic simulation results for the entire gasifier- gas cleanup-SOFC system. The constructed SOFC system is tested and the measured parameters are compared with those given by a system simulation. Furthermore, a detailed exergy analysis is performed to determine the components responsible for poor efficiency. It is concluded that the SOFC system demonstrates reasonable agreement with the simulated results. Furthermore, based on the exergy results, the components causing major irreversible performance losses are identified.
Electronic ISSN:
1996-1073
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering