Abstract
Fuel cells when combined with conventional turbine power plants offer high efficiencies. The feature of certain fuel cells (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell or SOFC, Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell or MCFC), which makes them suitable for hybrid or combined systems, is their high operating temperature. In this work, a detailed thermodynamic model of SOFC and gas turbine hybrid system is simulated in MATLAB. Few configurations of the combined or hybrid cycles are proposed and analyzed. A comparative study based upon performance parameters, such as SOFC power and turbine inlet temperature is used to select the better configuration. Simple thermodynamic models for the compressor and turbine are used during the configuration selection.
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