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A Study on Thermal Management of Stack Supply Gas of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System for Ship Applications (선박 전원용 고체산화물형 연료전지(SOFC) 시스템의 스택 공급 가스의 열관리 문제에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Kyun;Kim, Mann-Eung
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.765-772
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    • 2011
  • In this research, the fuel cell system model capable of generating codes in real time was developed to construct of a HIL (Hardware-In-the-Loop) for a SOFC-powered ship. Moreover, the effects of the distribution of the exhaust gas flow rates in a stack, the flow rates of fuels and temperature of air supplied on the temperature characteristics of fuels supplied to the cathode and the anode, the output power of the stack and system efficiency are examined to minimize the temperature difference between fuels supplied to the stack used in a 500kW SOFC system using methane as a fuel. As a result, the temperatures of fuels supplied to the cathode and the anode maintain at 830K when the opening factor of three-way valve located at outlet of turbine is 0.839. Also the process for optimization of methane flow rate considering the fuel cell stack and system efficiency is required to increase the temperatures of fuels supplied to the stack.

Stability of Metal-supported SOFC using Diesel Reformate (디젤 개질 가스로 운전되는 금속지지체형 고체산화물 연료전지의 운전 안정성에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Jihoon;Baek, Seung-Wook;Bae, Joongmyeon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.78.1-78.1
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    • 2010
  • The metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was studied. Hydrocarbon fueled operation is necessary to make SOFC system. Different operating characteristics for metal-supported SOFC are used than for conventional ones as hydrocarbon fueled operation. Metal-supported SOFC was successfully fabricated by a high temperature sinter-joining method and the cathode was in-situ sintered. Synthetic gas, which is compounded as the diesel reformate gas composition and low hydrocarbons was completely removed by the diesel reformer. Metal-supported SOFC with synthetic gas was operated and evaluated and its characteristics analyzed. Button cell and $5{\times}5cm^2$ single stack were mainly operated and analyzed. Long-term operation using diesel reformate shows degradation, and degradation analysis was completed in the view of metal oxidation. Solution to increase stability of long-term operation was tried in the way of materials and operating conditions. Finally, $5{\times}5cm^2$ metal-supported single stack using synthetic gas was operated for 1000 hours under the modified condition.

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Characteristics of Unit Cell for SOFC (SOFC의 단위전지 특성평가)

  • 김귀열;엄승욱;문성인
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1996.05a
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    • pp.80-83
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    • 1996
  • Among the fuel cell system, solid oxide fuel eels is constructed of ceramics, so stack construction is simple , power density is very high, and there is no corrosion problems. The purpose of this research is investigate the characteristics of unit cell for SOFC .

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Effect of Sinterring aid in LYSMO Ceramic interconnector for SOFC application (SOFC용 LYSMO세라믹 IC에서 소결조제 첨가에 따른 소결특성)

  • Seo, Han;Choi, Byung-Hyun;Ji, Mi-Jung;Ann, Yong-Tea;Park, Sung-Tea;Lee, Jun-Ho;Ju, Byeong-Kwon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.128.1-128.1
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구는 세라믹 연결재로 사용되는 Perovskite 구조의 LYSMO조성의 실제 SOFC stack적용을 위한 소결온도 제어방법에 관해 연구하였다. SOFC 단전지에서 IC소재는 $1300{\sim}{\cdot}1400^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 소결이 이루어져만 하나 현재 연구발표된 IC는 대부분이 $1500^{\circ}C$ 이상에서 소결이 되므로 실제 stack적용에 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기위해 IC소재에 소결조제를 첨가하여 소결온도를 제어코자 하였다. 실험결과 $MgB_6$$LaB_6$등의 불화물계의 첨가가 세라믹 연결재의 소결온도 감소에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다. 소결조제의 첨가는 소결온도의 감소를 이끌었지만 열팽창 계수에는 큰 영향을 끼치지는 않았다. 하지만 전기적 특성은 큰 폭으로 감소하여 전기전도도 개선을 위한 다른 방안이 필요함을 확인할 수 있었다.

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Hammerstein-Wiener Model based Model Predictive Control for Fuel Cell Systems (연료전지 시스템을 위한 헤머스테인-위너 모델기반의 모델예측제어)

  • Lee, Sang-Moon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.383-388
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we consider Hammerstein-Wiener nonlinear model for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). A nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) is proposed to trace the constant stack terminal power by Hydrogen flow as control input. After the stability of the closed-loop system with static output feedback controller is analysed by Lyapunov method, a nonlinear model predictive control based on the Hammerstein-Wiener model is developed to control the stack terminal power of the SOFC system. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method based on the Hammerstein-Wiener model for SOFC system.

Joining of Lanthanum Chromite and Yttria Stabilized Zirconia in Sealing of Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

  • Lee, You-Kee;Park, Jong-Wan
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.4 no.7
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    • pp.741-749
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    • 1994
  • The planar solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC) contains several ceramic materials depending on its structure and has rdfractory metal parts for manifolds, shrouds and current leads. Among ceramic materials for planar SOFC, joining of lanthanum chromite separator and yttria stabilized zirconia(YSZ) electoyte in planar SOFC stack to give strong gas tight seals is necessary for satisfactory operation and high performance. Nevertheless, for planar SOFC/sub s/, how to seal the cell stack and gas manifold remains as one of the unsolved problems. Therefore, in this study. we investigated the joining of sintered lanthanum chromite and YSZ pellets using unsintered lanthanum chromite green films as sealent. Scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis(EDX) revealed that Ca in the sealing material diffused and dissolved into YSZ and sintered lanthanum chromite, and unsintered lanthanum chromite green films reacted with YSZ to from a new phase at the interface. Also, the densification of unsintered lanthanum chromite green films was inpeded by the Ca migration.

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