Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) stack is known to suffer thermal problem from high stack temperature during operation to generate high current. On-Cell Reforming (OCR) phenomenon is often used to reduce stack temperature by an endothermic reaction of steam-methane reforming process. RIST conducted single-cell experiment to validate modeling tool to simulate OCR performance including temperature measurement. 2D modeling is used to check reforming rate during OCR using temperature measurement data, and 3D modeling is used to check overall thermal performance including furnace boundary conditions.
Revised: April 10, 2012 |
Published: May 30, 2011
Citation
Yang C., H. Lim, S. Hwang, D. Kim, C. Lai, B.J. Koeppel, and K.P. Recknagle, et al. 2011.Modeling of On-Cell Reforming Reaction for Planar SOFC Stacks. In Proceedings of the ASME 2011 9th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology collocated with ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (FUELCELL2011)
August 7-10, 2011, Washington, DC, 355-363, FuelCell2011-54138. New York, New York:American Society of Mechanical Engineers. PNNL-SA-80275.doi:10.1115/FuelCell2011-54138