Thermal and electrical model of fuel cell in connected to grid/isolated mode

Author

Nayak, Sanjeev K. ; Gaonkar, D.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Mangalore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The fuel cell based distributed generation (DG) system are gaining more attention due to stationary operation, reliable power and less maintenance. Among the different types of fuel cell, one of the high temperatures operating promising Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is preferred due to reliable operation and co-generation purpose. This paper presents the thermal and electrical model of SOFC in connected to the grid and isolated model of operation through power electronics interfacing circuit. The developed model SOFC includes the mathematical expression for thermal and electrical parameter variation inside the fuel cell. The developed model for this study is implemented using Matlab/Simulink environment and the simulation results reported in this paper validated the load following performance of SOFC based DG system.

Keywords

cogeneration; distributed power generation; fuel cell power plants; mathematics computing; power grids; solid oxide fuel cells; DG system; Matlab-Simulink environment; SOFC; cogeneration purpose; electrical model; electrical parameter variation; fuel cell based distributed generation system; grid-isolated mode; power electronics interfacing circuit; solid oxide fuel cell; thermal model; thermal parameter variation; Atmospheric modeling; Equations; Fuel cells; Fuels; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Distributed Generation; Power Electronics Interface; Solid Oxide Fuel Cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power India Conference, 2012 IEEE Fifth

Conference_Location

Murthal

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0763-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PowerI.2012.6479498

Filename

6479498