Design, construction, and testing of a gasifier-specific solid oxide fuel cell system
Álvaro Monteiro Fernandes (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Joerg Brabandt (Sunfire GmbH)
Oliver Posdziech (Sunfire GmbH)
Ali Saadabadi (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Mayra Recalde Moreno Del Rocio (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Liyuan Fan (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Eva Promes (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Ming Liu (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Theo Woudstra (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
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Abstract
This paper describes the steps involved in the design, construction, and testing of a gasifier-specific solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system. The design choices are based on reported thermodynamic simulation results for the entire gasifier- gas cleanup-SOFC system. The constructed SOFC system is tested and the measured parameters are compared with those given by a system simulation. Furthermore, a detailed exergy analysis is performed to determine the components responsible for poor efficiency. It is concluded that the SOFC system demonstrates reasonable agreement with the simulated results. Furthermore, based on the exergy results, the components causing major irreversible performance losses are identified.
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