A NUMERICAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER IN THE FUEL CELL OF A SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL-COMBUSTOR

Mingkan Zhang, Trevor Kramer, Ted Ohrn, Rory Roberts, Kashif Nawaz

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Abstract

A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Combustor (SOFC-C) concept was proposed to address many challenges a traditional fuel cell-gas turbine hybrid system (FC-GT) will have in aerospace applications. By taking advantage of the temperature rise during compression and the combustion of anode off-gas, the SOFC-C eliminates the recuperating heat exchanger usually required for cathode flows, greatly reducing the size and weight (thermal mass) of the system. The fuel cell is one of the key parts of the SOFC-C, so it is desired to understand the heat transfer in the fuel cell. In present work, a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was developed to reveal the gas flow and heat transfer in the fuel cell of the SOFC-C. The model includes not only convection heat transfer, but also includes the radiation heat transfer. The modeling results help to optimize the SOFC-C design.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)319-327
Number of pages9
JournalProceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event9th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, TFEC 2024 - Hybrid, Corvallis, United States
Duration: Apr 21 2024Apr 24 2024

Keywords

  • CFD
  • Fuel Cell-Combustor
  • Heat Transfer

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