Due to the high efficiency,no pollution,fuel flexibility and high temperature,solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC)is expected to be applied in aeronautical hybrid power system.In this paper,a 3D mesoscopic mod⁃el was establish...Due to the high efficiency,no pollution,fuel flexibility and high temperature,solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC)is expected to be applied in aeronautical hybrid power system.In this paper,a 3D mesoscopic mod⁃el was established for SOFC heterogeneous anode.The microstructure of Ni and gadolinium-doped ceria(GDC)anode was generated via Quartet Structure Generation Set(QSGS)method.The mesoscopic model of mass trans⁃fer,charge transfer and reacting flow was built based on lattice Boltzmann method(LBM).The simulation results agreed with the experimental data from reference under 650℃and 0.1 MPa.Meanwhile,the influence of leakage current on open circuit voltage cannot be ignored,which indicates the necessity of adding electron barrier layer.Higher inlet pressure was simulated in order to predict the performance under aeronautical conditions,which shows significant benefit for the performance.The reaction current density increases by 59%,107%and 147%for inlet pressure of 0.2 MPa,0.3 MPa and 0.4 MPa under polarization of 0.161 V.The reaction current shows a significant nonlinear distribution along the thickness direction,and the current density increases faster near the electrolyte.Under the same total polarization,the activation polarization decreases with the increase of inlet pres⁃sure,while the ohmic polarization is opposite.展开更多
文摘Due to the high efficiency,no pollution,fuel flexibility and high temperature,solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC)is expected to be applied in aeronautical hybrid power system.In this paper,a 3D mesoscopic mod⁃el was established for SOFC heterogeneous anode.The microstructure of Ni and gadolinium-doped ceria(GDC)anode was generated via Quartet Structure Generation Set(QSGS)method.The mesoscopic model of mass trans⁃fer,charge transfer and reacting flow was built based on lattice Boltzmann method(LBM).The simulation results agreed with the experimental data from reference under 650℃and 0.1 MPa.Meanwhile,the influence of leakage current on open circuit voltage cannot be ignored,which indicates the necessity of adding electron barrier layer.Higher inlet pressure was simulated in order to predict the performance under aeronautical conditions,which shows significant benefit for the performance.The reaction current density increases by 59%,107%and 147%for inlet pressure of 0.2 MPa,0.3 MPa and 0.4 MPa under polarization of 0.161 V.The reaction current shows a significant nonlinear distribution along the thickness direction,and the current density increases faster near the electrolyte.Under the same total polarization,the activation polarization decreases with the increase of inlet pres⁃sure,while the ohmic polarization is opposite.
