%0 Journal Article
%T A Review on Modeling of Hybrid Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems
%A Alan Fung
%A Farshid Zabihian
%J International Journal of Engineering
%D 2009
%I Computer Science Journals
%X Over the past 2 decades, there has been tremendous progress on numerical and computational tools for fuel cells and energy systems based on them. The purpose of this work is to summarize the current status of hybrid solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cycles and identify areas that require further studies. In this review paper, a comprehensive literature survey on different types of SOFC hybrid systems modeling is presented. The paper has three parts. First, it describes the importance of the fuel cells modeling especially in SOFC hybrid cycles. Key features of the fuel cell models are highlighted and model selection criteria are explained. In the second part, the models in the open literature are categorized and discussed. It includes discussion on a detail example of SOFC-gas turbine cycle model, description of early models, models with different objectives such as parametric analysis, comparison of configurations, exergy analysis, optimization, non-stationary power generation applications, transient and off-design analysis, thermoeconomic analysis and so on. Finally, in the last section, key features of selected models are summarized and suggestions for areas that require further studies are presented. In this paper, a hybrid cycle can be any combination of SOFC and gas turbine, steam turbine, coal integrated gasification, and application in combined heat and power cycle.
%K Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
%K SOFC
%K Hybrid Energy Systems
%K Steady State
%K Dynamic Modeling
%U http://cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJE/volume3/Issue2/IJE-32.pdf