The development of dynamic simulation tools for fuel cell systems and fuel cell/gas turbine (FC/GT) systems is required to understand the response of fuel cell systems to both scheduled and unscheduled perturbations. These tools supply the foundation on which control strategies can be developed and tested before they are actually implemented in a physical system. For high temperature fuel cell ...

To improve the reliability and the energy efficiency of datacenters, as well as to reduce infrastructure costs and environmental impacts, we demonstrated and evaluated the use of a 10 kW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) stack and system for powering the servers in a data center. In this study, we designed, tested and demonstrated a PEMFC system as a Distributed Generation (DG) prime m...

Abstract Coal has been the main energy source in China for a long period. Therefore, industry must improve coal power generation efficiency and achieve near-zero CO 2 emissions. Integrated gasification fuel cell (IGFC) systems that combine high-temperature cells, such as solid oxide cells or molten carbonate (MCFCs), are proving to be promising efficient clean generation, compared with traditio...

The electrochemical deposition and re-oxidation of solid carbon were studied in CO3(2-) ion-containing molten salts (e.g. CaCl2-CaCO3-LiCl-KCl and Li2CO3-K2CO3) at temperatures between 500 and 800 °C under Ar, CO2 or N2-CO2 atmospheres. The electrode reactions were investigated by thermodynamic analysis, cyclic voltammetry and chronopotentiometry in a three-electrode cell under various conditio...