INVESTIGADORES
AGUIRRE Pio Antonio
artículos
Título:
Ethanol and glycerin processor systems coupled to solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Optimal operation and heat exchangers network synthesis
Autor/es:
DIEGO G. OLIVA; JAVIER A FRANCESCONI; MIGUEL C MUSSATI; PIO A. AGUIRRE
Revista:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Editorial:
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2013 p. 7140 - 7158
ISSN:
0360-3199
Resumen:
This paper is aimed at presenting a methodology for the simultaneous synthesis of solid
oxide fuel cell (SOFC) based systems and their associated heat exchangers network (HEN).
The optimization model is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear mathematical programming
(MINLP) problem. The optimization goal is to maximize the overall net efficiency
of the integrated system.
Ethanol and glycerin are studied as fuels fed to the SOFC system as they constitute two
renewable and sustainable sources of energy.
As main results, net global efficiency values of 69.35% and 66.97% were computed for
ethanol and glycerin, respectively. For both cases, the computed optimal operation pressure,
the SOFC operation temperature and the fed water/fuel molar ratio values were
2 atm, 1073 K and 3, respectively.