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A transient analysis of a hybrid SOFC-GT system for isolated islands

P. Boutikos, P. Iliadis, K. Atsonios, P. Grammelis Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute

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Population growth Rapid industrial and technological advancement  Improvement of living  standards

Energy consumption   (↑2.9% in 2019) . Greenhouse gas emissions Global warming, climate change Health issues

Carbon-free & environmental friendly economy

Energy  Sources Sustainable,  efficient  and cleaner Intermittent and fluctuate with production not in sync with  demand The lack of access to electricity especially in non-interconnected islands

Electrocatalytic technologies Fuel Cell technology leads to the production of  H 2 .

Clean energy carrier Abundant (water) Fuel in fuel cell & ICE

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High  efficienc y   (up to 70%) Low CO 2   emissions Fuel flexibility :  NG, LNG,  H 2 , biogas Assembly  in existing power plants (1kW – 10 MW) Cogeneration   possibility (domestic hot water, district heating,  desalination,  etc ). Exhaust gas utilization  at a   bottomed thermodynamic cycle (e.g. Rankine, Brayton).

Overall hybrid cycle  efficiency  can be  >70%.

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Dependence on oil fuel High electricity cost High CO 2  emissions Technical difficulties for RES development

Dependence on NG High efficient electricity production Low CO 2  emissions

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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell  - Gas Turbine Model

Assumptions The reformer and the SOFC are treated as a zero dimensional (0D).  Uniform distribution of gas concentration, temperature and current density in the fuel cell. Only H 2  is electrochemically oxidized. All gases are assumed to be ideal.

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The design parameters of the reformer and fuel cell were obtained by literature 1,2,3 .   The model was implemented in  Matlab  version 8.2.0 (R2013b).

Operational Parameters Fuel flow  rate  (kmol/h) 7 Air flow rate  (kmol/h) 240 Pressure (bar) 3 Fuel Composition (%) 93% CH 4 , 3% C 2 H 6 ,       1% CO 2 ,  3% N 2 Compressor  efficiency (%) 89 Gas Turbine  efficiency (%) 91 Reformer  temperature ( 0 C ) 650 SOFC temperature ( 0 C) 910 Current density (A/m 2 ) 1.000 – 3.000

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Design Parameters m cat  (g) 0.6 ρ cat   (kg/m 3 ) 2335 Cp cat   (J.kg -1 .K -1 ) 444 Bed voidage 0.4 Reactor Volume (m 3 ) 3.10 -3 ρ SOFC   (kg/m 3 ) 4200 Cp SOFC   (J.kg -1 .K -1 ) 640

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Atsonios   et  al.  model 1 This work   Voltage (V) 0.68 0.692 Current density (mA/cm 2 ) 183 170 SOFC Stack power output (MW)  1 1 Fuel Utilization factor (%) 85 63 Anode outlet composition  50.9% H 2 O, 24.9% CO 2  , 11.6% H 2 , 7.4% CO 46.68% H 2 O, 35.43% CO 2  , 9.75% H 2 , 8.04% CO Pre-reformer  outlet temp. (°C) 536 534 Stack exhaust temperature (°C)  838 816

Atsonios, K., Samlis, C., Manou, K., Nikolopoulos, A., Sfetsioris, K., Mitsotakis, A., Grammelis, P.,  J. Hydr. Energy 46 (2021), 4827 .

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Effect of current density (T SOFC  = 910  0 C)

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Effect of Cell temperature (current density = 1700 A/m 2 )

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Effect of molar flow rate ( T SOFC  = 910  0 C, current density = 1700 A/m 2 )

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Operation  load of the hybrid SOFC-GT system in an isolated island during a year and during a whole  day.   The island includes 8.85 MW wind turbines and 5.17 MW photovoltaics.

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A zero-dimensional  model was developed in Matlab in order to investigate the full-load and partial-load operation performance of a hybrid SOFC-GT system.  The  dynamic model predicts very well the numerical results of a literature model under steady-state operation.   The cell voltage decreases with the current density increasing, whereas the power of the system increases until it reaches a maximum and then it starts decreasing.    The system power increases until the cell temperature reaches at 850  o C after which it decreases slowly. The efficiency of the system  presents a similar behavior. The fuel flow rate has a negative effect on the efficiency of the system. The  hybrid system presents medium fluctuations in power demand with the penetration of wind turbines and photovoltaic cells .

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Acknowledgements This work has been carried out in the framework of the Greek-German Research Project “SUstainable and Novel fuel cell applications for Island Energy - SUNIES”.

A transient analysis of a hybrid SOFC-GT system for isolated islands

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