Optimal planning of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Power Plants at distribution networks considering Combined Heat, Power and Hydrogen production

2013 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 513-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taher Niknam ◽  
Mosayeb Bornapour ◽  
Amir Ostadi ◽  
Amirhossein Gheisari
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 2673-2679
Author(s):  
J. Chakravorty ◽  
G. Sharma ◽  
V. Bhatia

As power demand constantly (and rapidly) increases and with the introduction of many sophisticated electronic devices, power quality issues are becoming a major problem for the power sector. In this context, issues of power quality, voltage swells and sags have become rather common. Custom power devices are generally used to solve this problem. A dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is the most efficient and effective modern custom power device used in power distribution networks. In this paper a new DVR model is presented. The proposed DVR has a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) as its DC source of supply with an ultra-capacitor along with a fuzzy controller as its controlling unit. The complete model is implemented in MATLAB/SIMULINK and the output of the proposed model is compared with conventional DVR model with a simple DC voltage source and a capacitor with the same fuzzy controller


2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
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. These models are integrated in Aspen Plus™. In this article the performance of internal and external reforming molten carbonate fuel cell systems are investigated. To this end the gas temperature at the anode inlet is varied to be able to exam the effect of operating temperature on the operating conditions for different modes of MCFC systems in a range between 600 and 700°C. It is found that the operating temperature has more effect on the cell voltage of IR-MCFC system compared to ER-MCFC system. Simulations show that the IR-MCFC system is more efficient than the ER-MCFC system. The cycle efficiency is rather independent of the operating temperature for as well ER-MCFC as IR-MCFC systems.


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