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SOFC Modeling Considering Electrochemical Reactions at the Active Three Phase Boundaries

Författare

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
It is expected that fuel cells will play a significant role in a future sustainable energy system, due to their high energy efficiency and the possibility to use renewable fuels. A fully coupled CFD model (COMSOL Multiphysics) is developed to describe an intermediate temperature SOFC single cell, including governing equations for heat, mass, momentum and charge transport as well as kinetics considering the internal reforming and the electrochemical reactions. The influences of the ion and electron transport resistance within the electrodes, as well as the impact of the operating temperature and the cooling effect by the surplus of air flow, are investigated. As revealed for the standard case in this study, 90% of the electrochemical reactions occur within 2.4 mu m in the cathode and 6.2 mu m in the anode away from the electrode/electrolyte interface. In spite of the thin electrochemical active zone, the difference to earlier models with the reactions defined at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces is significant. It is also found that 60% of the polarizations occur in the anode, 10% in the electrolyte and 30% in the cathode. It is predicted that the cell current density increases if the ionic transfer tortuosity in the electrodes is decreased, the air flow rate is decreased or the cell operating temperature is increased.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

773-788

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volym

55

Issue

4-5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Pergamon Press Ltd.

Ämne

  • Energy Engineering

Nyckelord

  • CFD modeling
  • SOFC
  • Charge transport
  • Electrochemical reactions
  • TPB

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0017-9310