New Energy Resources and Energy Storage
TIAN Songfeng, LIU Shiyao, LIU YaXuan, BAO Zhongxiang, ZHANG Qian, LI Zhengkuan, ZHANG Du
In order to improve the efficiency of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) combined system and reduce carbon capture energy consumption, a combined system based on SOFC, gas turbine (GT), steam turbine (ST), organic rankine cycle (ORC) and ammonia absorption refrigeration cycle was proposed to liquefy and recover CO2. A SOFC ontology model was built and verified by Aspen Plus software. By inputting thermodynamic parameters under design condition, the effects of current density, fuel utilization rate and steam-carbon ratio on the performance of the SOFC and the combined system were studied. Results show that under design conditions, the electrical efficiency of the SOFC, the combined system and the power-cooling supply efficiency are 55.5%, 76.5% and 92.6%, respectively. Compared with the existing systems, each efficiency of the proposed system has been improved. When current density increases to the limit current density, the concentration polarization loss increases rapidly, which has a negative impact on system performance. With the improvement of fuel utilization rate, work-cooling ratio decreases, while each efficiency shows a trend of first increasing and then decreasing. When the steam-carbon ratio is 2, the electrical efficiency of the combined system and the power-cooling supply efficiency reach the highest, which are 78.04% and 93.2% respectively.