Numerical analysis of coupled transport and reaction phenomena in an anode-supported flat-tube solid oxide fuel cell

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• 作者：Masayuki Suzuki ; Naoki Shikazono ; Koji Fukagata ; Nobuhide Kasagi
• 关键词：Solid oxide fuel cell ; Simulation ; Heat/mass transfer ; Electrochemical reaction ; Modeling
• 刊名：Journal of Power Sources
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：15 May 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：180
• 期：1
• 页码：29-40
• 全文大小：1438 K

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Heat and mass transfer with electrochemical reaction in an anode-supported flat-tube solid oxide fuel cell (FT-SOFC) is studied by means of three-dimensional numerical simulation. The distributions of the reaction fields in the anode-supported FT-SOFC are found to be similar to those in the planar SOFC with co-flow arrangement. However, in comparison with the latter, the concentration and activation overpotentials of the former can be reduced by additional reactant diffusion through the porous rib of the fuel channel. Parametric survey reveals that, for a fixed activation overpotential model, the output voltage can be improved by increasing the pore size of anode, while the cross-sectional geometry has smaller effect on the cell performance. Based on the results of three-dimensional simulation, we also develop a simplified numerical model of anode-supported FT-SOFC, which takes into account the concentration gradients in the thick anode of complex cross-sectional geometry. The simplified model can sufficiently predict the output voltage as well as the distributions of temperature and current density with very low computational cost. Thus, it can be used as a powerful tool for surveying wide range of anode-supported FT-SOFC design parameters.