A software tool for the evaluation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells systems

Author

Boccaletti, Chiara ; Fabbri, Gianluca ; Nanni, Roberto ; Santini, Ezio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome

fYear

2008

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a simulation software with a graphical user interface developed to analyse and model Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for stationary applications. The tool is based on a dynamic model that has been developed in the Matlab-Simulink^copy environment and that allows the user to take into account both physical and chemical principles as well as empirical parameters in order to analize both steady state and dynamic operation of the SOFC. The tool has been used to simulate the behaviour of a 1 kW planar SOFC and has been validated using data from an experimental prototype manufactured with the screen printing technique.

Keywords

mathematics computing; power engineering computing; software tools; solid oxide fuel cells; Matlab-Simulink; graphical user interface; planar SOFC; power 1 kW; screen printing technique; software tool; solid oxide fuel cells systems; Analytical models; Application software; Chemicals; Computer languages; Fuel cells; Graphical user interfaces; Mathematical model; Software tools; Solid modeling; Steady-state; Design Software; Modelling; Screen Printing; Simulation; Solid Oxide Fuel Cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines, 2008. ICEM 2008. 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilamoura

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1735-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1736-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICELMACH.2008.4800039

Filename

4800039