TY - JOUR
T1 - A NUMERICAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER IN THE FUEL CELL OF A SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL-COMBUSTOR
AU - Zhang, Mingkan
AU - Kramer, Trevor
AU - Ohrn, Ted
AU - Roberts, Rory
AU - Nawaz, Kashif
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - CFD
KW - Fuel Cell-Combustor
KW - Heat Transfer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85198630632&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1615/TFEC2024.cbf.050721
DO - 10.1615/TFEC2024.cbf.050721
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85198630632
SN - 2379-1748
SP - 319
EP - 327
JO - Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
JF - Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
T2 - 9th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, TFEC 2024
Y2 - 21 April 2024 through 24 April 2024
ER -