Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) with proton conducting electrolyte (H-SOFCs) are promising power sources for stationary applications. Compared with other types of fuel cells, one distinct feature of SOFC is their fuel flexibility. In this study, a 2D model is developed to investigate the transport and reaction in an H-SOFC fueled with syngas, which can be produced from conventional natural gas o...

In this article, a dynamic, lumped model of a Solide Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is described, as a step towards developing control relevant models for a SOFC combined with a gas turbine (GT) in an autonomous power system. The model is evaluated against a distributed dynamic tubular SOFC model. The simulation results confirm that the simple model is able to capture the important dynamics of the SOFC...

Carbon deposition considered in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) model may be influenced by the operating voltage, inlet water/methane ratio, working temperature and pressure, inlet molar fraction of fuel and so on. The effects of these parameters in a planar SOFC implementing a novel bi-layer interconnector are not well understood. This paper is focused on the numerical study of carbon depositio...

Internally reforming anode supported solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFC) running on humidified CH4 is studied numerically. The computational framework employs detailed multi-step models for heterogeneous chemistry for Ni catalysts. The electrochemistry is implemented using a modified Butler–Volmer setting based on elementary charge transfer kinetics. Transport through the porous matrix is modeled usi...

This work suggests a method for obtaining heat-resistant protective coatings 08Kh17T stainless steel that can be used as interconnect material solid oxide fuel cells. The suggested approach is based on the layer-by-layer precipitation of nickel, cobalt, and manganese, followed by heat treatment in vacuum oxidizing atmosphere. XRD results show consist mixture metal oxides compounds with spinel s...

The objective of this paper was to design energy integrated solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) based microcombined heat and power (micro-CHP) systems using syngas derived from lignocellulosic biomass waste. The novel contributions of this work include 1) integration of syngas between a community-scale biomass gasification plant and SOFC based micro-CHP systems in buildings; 2) heat integrated designs...

Mn–Co alloys were electroplated on AISI 430 stainless steel using an electrodeposition technique with the aim to reduce oxidation and chromium volatilization. The electroplating parameters designed improve coating quality. increased current density decreased MnSO4 content resulted in a denser layer. A sample coated 0.10 M CoSO4 0.50 at 350 mA cm−2 showed best resistance after being oxidized 800...