Numerical study on electric characteristics of solid oxide fuel cells 2007 Energy Conversion and Management英文电子书.pdf

Energy Conversion and Management 48 (2007) 977–989 /locate/enconman Numerical study on electric characteristics of solid oxide fuel cells Xiongwen Zhang, Guojun Li *, Jun Li, Zhenping Feng School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, PR China Received 21 June 2005; accepted 9 August 2006 Available online 5 October 2006 Abstract Numerical simulations are performed in both planar and tubular geometries of a solid oxide fuel cell to study the electric character- istics. The Navier–Stokes equations are solved with an electrochemical model developed in this paper, which is a generalized, three dimensional complete polarization electrochemical model for solid oxide fuel cells with various geometries. This study conducts detailed analyses of the electric polarizations for both planar and tubular solid oxide fuel cells and presents the characteristics of the density and the potential distribution in the electric components for the planar co-flow solid oxide fuel cell. The ohmic heats in the planar and tubular configuration solid oxide fuel cell are also compared and discussed. 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Solid oxide fuel cell; Numerical simulation; Electric characteristics 1. Introduction current in the SOFC is considered to be a flowing medium with three dimensional flows. The three dimensional char- A fuel cell is an energy conversion device that converts acteristics of the current ha