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Design of A 5-kW Advanced Fuel Cell Polygeneration System: Mahrokh Samavati, Rizwan Raza and Bin Zhu
Design of A 5-kW Advanced Fuel Cell Polygeneration System: Mahrokh Samavati, Rizwan Raza and Bin Zhu
Design of A 5-kW Advanced Fuel Cell Polygeneration System: Mahrokh Samavati, Rizwan Raza and Bin Zhu
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CONCLUSION
In this paper, development of an advanced nanocom-
posite LT fuel cell for polygeneration applications is
described, both theoretically and experimentally. Hy-
drogen, and syngas, was tested with nanocomposite
materials at low temperatures (300–600◦ C). Then, a
LT planar SOFC was designed and simulated on the
basis of the achieved experimental results for polygen-
eration applications. The simulation was made based
on lumped-parameter modeling, and energy and mass
balance were driven for each component. The simula-
tion results by considering syngas as fuel showed that
there is a considerable amount of heat at the fuel cell
outlet, which can be harvested for further use despite
the fact that this SOFC has lower operating temper-
F I G U R E 1 1 | Effect of air inlet temperature on heating power. ature than common SOFC systems. Therefore, there
is a high potential in LTSOFCs for polygeneration
fuel preheater and HRS. So, heat power production application because they do not have the common
and heat efficiency will decrease (Figures 10 and 11). problems of high temperature SOFCs and are less ex-
Because air inlet temperature has no significant ef- pensive. Besides, usage of waste heat of the SOFC
fect on electrical efficiency, the total efficiency will stack enhanced the efficiency to about 75% based on
decreased as well. the operating parameters.
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