A self-organizing fuzzy controller (SOFC) has been developed for control engineering applications. However, in practical applications, it is difficult to choose the values of the SOFC’s learning rate and weighting distribution appropriately to achieve reasonable control performance. In addition, the SOFC is mainly used to control singleinput single-output systems. When the SOFC is applied to ma...

Title of Document: QUANTIFYING THE ROLE OF CERIUM OXIDE AS A CATALYST IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL ANODES Steven C. DeCaluwe, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Associate Professor Gregory S. Jackson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are an important electrochemical power conversion device, due largely to their high efficiencies and ability to directly oxidiz...

Since solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) produce electricity with high energy conversion efficiency, and chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a process for fuel conversion with inherent CO2 separation, a novel combined cycle integrating coal gasification, solid oxide fuel cell, and chemical looping combustion was configured and analyzed. A thermodynamic analysis based on energy and exergy was perfor...

This study developed an enhanced adaptive self-organizing fuzzy slidingmode controller (EASFSC) for robotic systems. Rather than using the output error and the error change of the system, the EASFSC uses a sliding surface and its differential as the input variables of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) in a self-organizing fuzzy controller (SOFC) to generate a control input through fuzzy operation....

Solid oxide fuel cells have been considered in the last years as one of the most promising technologies for very highefficiency electric energy generation from hydrogen or other hydrocarbons, both with simple fuel cell plants and with integrated gas turbine-fuel cell systems. In the present study, a detailed thermodynamic analysis has been carried out. Mass and exergy balances are performed not...

The focus of the article is on the analysis of effective elastic properties of planar Solid Oxide Fuell Cell (SOFC) devices. An ideal periodic multi-layered composite (SOFC-like) reproducing the overall properties of multi-layer SOFC devices is defined. Adopting a non-local dynamic homogenization method, explicit expressions for overall elastic moduli and inertial terms of this material are der...

A dehydrogenation anode is reported for hydrocarbon proton conducting solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). A Cu-Cr(2)O(3) nanocomposite is obtained from CuCrO(2) nanoparticles as an inexpensive, efficient, carbon deposition and sintering tolerant anode catalyst. A SOFC reactor is fabricated using a Cu-Cr(2)O(3) composite as a dehydrogenation anode and a doped barium cerate as a proton conducting ele...

The proposed dynamic model w i l l account for the electrochemical and thermo dynamic characteristics of SOFC. Effects of temperature variations and fluid flow changes wil l be incorporated in the model. Voltage drops inside a fuel cell w i l l a l s o model. SOFC is connected to Grid through DC-DC Boost converter and a 3-phase voltage source inverter. The output of 3-phase inverter is fed to t...

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