...G. Manzolini; S. Campanari; P. Chiesa; A. Giannotti; P. Bedont; F. Parodi This paper presents an analysis of advanced cycles with limited CO 2 emissions based onthe integration of molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) in natural gas fired combined cycles (NGCC) in order to efficiently capture CO 2...

...A. Mirahmadi; H. Akbari This paper presents numerical modeling of molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs). The physical model consists of electrical, electrochemical, mass transport, conservation of momentums and heat transfer analyses. Numerical solution is only implemented to solution of a planer two...

...Federico Rossi; Andrea Nicolini An experimental investigation on a novel electrolyte configuration for molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) is presented. A single cell facility was built. The cell is characterized by a cylindrical geometry in order to reduce the structural and thermodynamic problems...

... reformed molten carbonate fuel cell, which operates in the 550 – 700 ° C range. The combination of the internal reforming of methane and atmospheric pressure and moderately high temperature of operation has resulted in very simple power plant system configurations. Recently, FCE has developed system...

... potential of combining traditional internal combustion energy systems (i.e., gas turbine and internal combustion engine) with a molten carbonate fuel cell for medium- and low-scale electrical power productions with low CO 2 emissions. The coupling is performed by placing the fuel cell at the exhaust...

..., ejectors have been used in a variety of industrial fields such as refrigeration systems, power plants, and oil plants. In this work, an ejector was used to safely recycle anode tail gas in a 75 kW molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) system at Korea Electric Power Research Institute. In this system...

...Huisheng Zhang; Shilie Weng; Ming Su; Wenshu Zhang The intention of this work is to investigate the control characteristics of molten carbonate fuel cell hybrid systems through dynamic simulation. Because of the complexity and interaction between different components in the hybrid systems, several...

..., such as natural gas, and conventional energy conversion devices, such as internal combustion engines. Molten carbonate fuel cells are ultraclean and highly efficient power generator devices capable of converting biogas into electricity and heat. Located in Lleida (Catalonia), Nufri is a fruit processing company...

... exchangers hybrid power systems molten carbonate fuel cells shafts High temperature fuel cells (FCs) are considered a promising candidate for the next future power generation; thanks to the high efficiency and low emission achievable also in small scale power plants, especially adopting...

...C. Paoletti; F. Zaza; M. Carewska; R. Lo Presti; E. Simonetti The slow dissolution of the lithiated NiO cathode represents one of the main causes of performance degradation in molten carbonate fuel cells. Two main approaches are usually investigated to overcome this problem: modifying...

...S. Bargigli; V. Cigolotti; D. Pierini; A. Moreno; F. Iacobone; S. Ulgiati The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a feasibility study of the supply of electricity and heat to a large user (i.e., a public hospital in Northern Italy) by means of a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC...

... turbine design and off-design performance and with the definition of the more flexible layout to be used for different hybrid system (molten carbonate fuel cell or solid oxide fuel cell) emulation. The layout of the system (connecting pipes, valves, and instrumentation, in particular mass flow meter...

..., a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC), and a micro-gas-turbine (mGT) and fed by chestnut coppice, waste available in great quantity in Central Italy, as well as in several other European regions. The gasifier produces a gas with a high content of hydrogen and low content of char and tar. This syngas...

...José Luz Silveira; Antonio Carlos Caetano de Souza; Márcio Evaristo da Silva Fuel cell as molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) operates at high temperatures. Thus, cogeneration processes may be performed, generating heat for its own process or for other purposes of steam generation in the industry...

...Fumihiko Yoshiba A module part of a 7 MW class centralized molten carbonate fuel cell/gas turbine (GT) combined system has been tested. Since the designed (GT) working pressure is 1.2 MPa , the operating pressure of the module was high ( 1.2 MPa ) . In order to realize a high steam-reforming...

...Fumihiko Yoshiba A 300 kW class molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC)/gas turbine combined compact system has been designed; the system has a 250-cell MCFC stack and a turbocharger generator (TCG) as part of its gas turbine. The 250-cell stack had trouble with a gas leakage; thus, a modified 125-cell...

...K. Sternberg; K. Chudej; H. J. Pesch; A. Rund Molten carbonate fuel cells are well suited for stationary power production and heat supply. In order to enhance service lifetime, hot spots, respectively, high temperature gradients inside the fuel cell have to be avoided. In conflict...

...S. Campanari; P. Iora; P. Silva; E. Macchi This paper investigates the thermodynamic potential of the integration of molten carbon fuel cell (MCFC) technology with gas turbine systems for small-scale (sub-megawatt or sub-MW) as well as large-scale (multi-MW) hybrid cycles. Following the proposals...

... into consideration. The authors would like to thank Dstl and EPSRC for funding. Cherepy , N. J. , Krueger , R. , Fiet , K. J. , Jankowski , A. F. , and Cooper , J. F. , 2005 , “ Direct Conversion of Carbon Fuels in a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell ,” J. Electrochem. Soc...

...A. Musa; H. J. Steeman; M. De Paepe Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC) are a promising alternative power source for distributed or residential power plants. Therefore, thermodynamic models are built in an Aspen customer modeler for the externally reformed (ER) MCFC and internally reformed (IR) MCFC...