High temperature solid oxide fuel cell integrated with autothermal reformer

Author

Srisiriwat, Anuchart

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum. Eng., Pathumwan Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

437

Lastpage

440

Abstract

As Thailand is a world-leading agricultural country which has a strong capability to produce ethanol by fermentation process from biomass, this study focused on power generation by high temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) integrated with autothermal reformer (ATR). SOFC is operated at high temperature, 1200 K, which is an advantage of SOFC system because of the waste heat recovery from SOFC being used to force fuel processing and suitable for integration with gas turbine to generate additional electricity. In this study, the effect of water-gas shift (WGS) reactor on the system efficiency has been investigated. The integrated process of autothermal reformer and SOFC was thermodynamically studied. The combination of ATR-WGS-SOFC and GT was found to improve the overall efficiency and electric power of system.

Keywords

fuel cell power plants; gas turbines; heat recovery; solid oxide fuel cells; thermal analysis; waste heat; SOFC system; Thailand; autothermal reformer; biomass fermentation process; fuel processing; gas turbine; high-temperature solid oxide fuel cell; power generation; thermodynamical study; waste heat recovery; water-gas shift reactor; Biomass; Cogeneration; Ethanol; Fuel cells; Heat recovery; Power generation; Solids; Temperature; Turbines; Waste heat; Autothermal Reformer; Solid Oxide Fuel Cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Conference, 2008. PECon 2008. IEEE 2nd International

Conference_Location

Johor Bahru

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2404-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2405-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECON.2008.4762515

Filename

4762515