“Temperature and flow distribution in planar SOFC stacks”
Authors: Monica Østenstad and Terje Sira,Affiliation: Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
Reference: 1995, Vol 16, No 3, pp. 119-127.
Keywords: SOFC, numerical model, design, simulation
Abstract: Simulation of a planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell stack requires the solution of the mass balances of the chemical species, the energy balances, the charge balance and the channel flow equations in order to compute the species concentrations, the temperature distributions, the current density and the channel flows. The unit cell geometry can be taken into account by combining detailed modeling of a unit cell with a homogenized model of a whole stack. In this study the effect of the asymmetric temperature distribution on the channel flows in a conventional cross-flow design has been investigated. The bidirectional cross-flow design is introduced, for which we can show more directional temperature and flow distributions.
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BibTeX:
@article{MIC-1995-3-1,
title={{Temperature and flow distribution in planar SOFC stacks}},
author={Østenstad, Monica and Sira, Terje},
journal={Modeling, Identification and Control},
volume={16},
number={3},
pages={119--127},
year={1995},
doi={10.4173/mic.1995.3.1},
publisher={Norwegian Society of Automatic Control}
};