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A Simulation Study of the Effect of Microstructural Design on the Performance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells With Direct Internal Reforming

내부개질형 고체산화물 연료전지의 마이크로 전극구조가 성능에 미치는 영향에 관한 해석적 연구

  • Received : 2013.09.14
  • Accepted : 2013.10.31
  • Published : 2013.10.31

Abstract

The paper is to study on the simulation of the micro/macroscale thermo-electrochemical model of a single cell of anode-supported SOFC with direct internal reforming. The coupled heat and mass transport, electrochemical and reforming reactions, and fluid flow were simultaneously simulated based on mass, energy, charge conservation. The micro/macroscale model first calculates the detailed electrochemical and direct internal reforming processes in porous electrodes based on the comprehensive microscale model and then solve the macroscale processes such as heat and mass transport, and fluid flow in SOFCs with assumption of fully-developed flow in gas channel. The simulation results evaluate the overall performance by analyzing distributions of mole fraction, current density, temperature and microstructural design in co/counter flow configurations.

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