TY - JOUR
T1 - An afterburner-powered methane/steam reformer for a solid oxide fuel cells application
AU - Mozdzierz, Marcin
AU - Chalusiak, Maciej
AU - Kimijima, Shinji
AU - Szmyd, Janusz S.
AU - Brus, Grzegorz
N1 - Funding Information:
The presented work was supported by the FIRST TEAM programme (grant no. First TEAM/2016-1/3) of the Foundation for Polish Science co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund. The numerical computations made use of computational resources provided by the PL-Grid (Prometheus computing cluster). Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
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PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems can be fueled by natural gas when the reforming reaction is conducted in a stack. Due to its maturity and safety, indirect internal reforming is usually used. A strong endothermic methane/steam reforming process needs a large amount of heat, and it is convenient to provide thermal energy by burning the remainders of fuel from a cell. In this work, the mathematical model of afterburner-powered methane/steam reformer is proposed. To analyze the effect of a fuel composition on SOFC performance, the zero-dimensional model of a fuel cell connected with a reformer is formulated. It is shown that the highest efficiency of a solid oxide fuel cell is achieved when the steam-to-methane ratio at the reforming reactor inlet is high.
AB - Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems can be fueled by natural gas when the reforming reaction is conducted in a stack. Due to its maturity and safety, indirect internal reforming is usually used. A strong endothermic methane/steam reforming process needs a large amount of heat, and it is convenient to provide thermal energy by burning the remainders of fuel from a cell. In this work, the mathematical model of afterburner-powered methane/steam reformer is proposed. To analyze the effect of a fuel composition on SOFC performance, the zero-dimensional model of a fuel cell connected with a reformer is formulated. It is shown that the highest efficiency of a solid oxide fuel cell is achieved when the steam-to-methane ratio at the reforming reactor inlet is high.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00231-018-2331-5
DO - 10.1007/s00231-018-2331-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045044033
SN - 0947-7411
VL - 54
SP - 2331
EP - 2341
JO - Warme - Und Stoffubertragung
JF - Warme - Und Stoffubertragung
IS - 8
ER -