Design and Modeling of a Fuel Cell System Using Biomass Feedstock as a Biofuel
Journal article, 2020

This paper aims to model ceramic fuel cell system based on low-temperature planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) different biogases fuels from multiple biomasses, that is, animal waste, redwood, rice husk and sugar cane. Biomass is a better choice for the generation of energy globally. Therefore, there is a focus on the most available biomass resources in the country that can be used as clean energy sources. This developed model is designed by thermodynamic analysis and electrochemical calculations using MATLAB. The designed model is a lumped parameter model based on the steady-state one-dimensional flow. In this model, all calculated power and flow rate values were kept as positive values. Also, the system is considered to be free of leaks, and heat loss is neglected. The operating temperature and pressure are assumed to be 500–700 °C and the partial pressure is set at three different pressures; P1 (1 bar), P2 (2 bar), and P3 (3 bar), respectively, and fuel utilization factor is 80%. It is observed that the best performance is obtained with animal-waste based biogas at 700 °C and P3 (3 bar).

Fuel cell

Polarization

Performance

Biomass

Author

Asia Rafique

Higher Education Department

COMSATS University Islamabad

M. H. Jaffery

COMSATS University Islamabad

A. Ali

COMSATS University Islamabad

M Naqvi

Karlstad University

I. Shakir

King Saud University

M. Ehsan

COMSATS University Islamabad

D. Ahmad

COMSATS University Islamabad

M. A. Babar

COMSATS University Islamabad

Rizwan Raza

COMSATS University Islamabad

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Energy and Material

Fuel Cells

1615-6846 (ISSN) 1615-6854 (eISSN)

Vol. 20 1 89-97

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Chemical Process Engineering

Energy Systems

DOI

10.1002/fuce.201900117

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3/31/2020