Scrutiny of MT-SOFC Stack Manifolding Design Using CFD

An Introduction to Network Stack Design Using Software Design Patterns

“Tenet 1: Let 1000 networks bloom”. This is the first principle of the EU IST project 4WARD and sets out one of the primary goals of this project – to explore new approaches that will allow present and future networks to be interoperable within a common architectural framework. As part of our work, we propose a software architecture for the future Internet realizing this core goal. This paper p...

Materials design for perovskite SOFC cathodes

This article focuses on perovskite materials for application as cathode material in solid oxide fuel cells. In order to develop new promising materials it is helpful to classify already known perovskite materials according to their properties and to identify certain tendencies. Thereby, composition-dependent structural data and materials properties are considered. Structural data under consider...

Investigation of Temperature and Flow Fields in an Alternative Design of Industrial Cracking Furnaces Using CFD

Simulation of SOFC stack and repeat elements including interconnect degradation and anode reoxidation risk

Reliability of SOFC stacks is a complex and key issue. This paper presents a simulation study including some degradation processes, namely nterconnect degradation and the anode reoxidation potential. Quantification for these phenomena has been included in a repeat element model to imulate stack degradation and study the influence of design and operating parameters on the degradation. Interconne...

Design of cooling fan for noise reduction using CFD

Cooling fans are one of the main noise sources in pumps. Tonal noise produced at a multiple of the rotational frequency of the fan, the so-called blade passing frequency (BPF) and its higher harmonics generally dominate fan noise. Noise reduction is perhaps one of the most important parameter in pumps. Every noise reduction process starts with identification of noise sources and ranking of soun...