Fundamentals of Heat and Fluid Flow in High Temperature Fuel Cells

Fundamentals of Heat and Fluid Flow in High Temperature Fuel Cells introduces key-concepts relating to heat, fluid and mass transfer as applied to high temperature fuel cells. The book briefly covers different type of fuel cells and discusses solid oxide fuel cells in detail, presenting related mass, momentum, energy and species equation. It then examines real case studies of hydrogen- and methane-fed SOFC, as well as combined heat and power and hybrid energy systems. This comprehensive reference is a useful resource for those working in high temperature fuel cell modeling and development, including energy researchers, engineers and graduate students.

Provides broad coverage of key concepts relating to heat transfer and fluid flow in high temperature fuel cellsPresents in-depth knowledge of solid oxide fuel cells and their application in different kinds of heat and power systemsExamines real-life case studies, covering different types of fuels and combined systems, including CHP

1. Introduction to fuel cells
2. What is a fuel cell?
3. How does a fuel cell work?
4. Main fuel cell layers
5. Anode layer
6. Anode catalyst layer
7. Cathode layer
8. Cathode catalyst layer
9. Electrolyte layer
10. Different types of fuel cells
11. Solid oxide fuel cell
12. Classification of SOFCs
13. Conventional SOFCs
14. Single chamber SOFCs
15. No chamber SOFCs
16. SOFC advantages and disadvantages
17. Conventional materials used in SOFC layers
18. Different SOFC geometries
19. Planar type
20. Tubular type
21. Anode supported design
22. Cathode supported design
23. Electrolyte supported design
24. Fundamentals of Heat transfer
25. Different modes of Heat transfer
26. Conduction
27. Convection
28. Radiation
29. Energy conservation
30. Heat transfer in free and porous media
31. Transient and steady state heat transfer
32. Heat generation
33. Some applicable boundary conditions
34. Conduction heat transfer in SOFCs
35. Heat conduction equation
36. Thermal conductivity
37. Conduction in porous media
38. Convection heat transfer in SOFCs
39. Fundamental convection principles
40. Laminar flow
41. Turbulent flow
42. Natural and forced convection convectively
43. Convection in porous media
44. Fundamentals of fluid flow
45. Mass conservation
46. Momentum conservation
47. Different types of motion equation
48. Compressible and incompressible flow
49. Fluid flow in porous media
50. Some applicable boundary conditions
51. Fully coupling in modelling
52. Case Studies
53. Hydrogen-fed SOFC
54. Methane-fed SOFC
55. Combined systems
56. Combined SOFC and CHP
57. Combined SOFC and power plant