Dual Pressure versus Hybrid Recuperation in an Integrated Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cycle--Steam Cycle

作     者：Masoud Rokni 

作者机构：Department of Mechanical Engineering Technical University of Denmark Lyngby 2800 Denmark 

出 版 物：《Journal of Energy and Power Engineering》 (能源与动力工程（美国大卫英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第8卷第4期

页      面：596-611页

学科分类：080703[工学-动力机械及工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 

主　　题：SOFC fuel cell hybrid cycle steam cycle Rankine cycle hybrid recuperation. 

摘      要：A SOFC （solid oxide fuel cell） cycle running on natural gas was integrated with a ST （steam turbine） cycle. The fuel is desulfurized and pre-reformed before entering the SOFC. A burner was used to combust the remaining fuel after the SOFC stacks. The off-gases from the burner were used to produce steam in a HRSG （heat recovery steam generator）. The bottoming steam cycle was modeled with two configurations： （1） a simple single pressure level and （2） a dual pressure level with both a reheat and a pre-heater. The SOFC stacks in the present SOFC-ST hybrid cycles were not pressurized. The dual pressure configuration steam cycle combined with SOFC cycle （SOFC-ST） was new and has not been studied previously. In each of the configuration, a hybrid recuperator was used to recovery the remaining energy of the off-gases after the HRSG. Thus, four different plants system setups were compared to each other to reveal the most superior concept with respect to plant efficiency and power. It was found that in order to increase the plant efficiency considerably, it was enough to use a single pressure with a hybrid recuperator instead of a dual pressure Rankine cycle.