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By Kai Sundmacher, Achim Kienle, Hans Josef Pesch, Joachim F. Berndt, Gerhard Huppmann
Adopting a special, built-in engineering strategy, this article concurrently covers all points of layout and operation, approach research, optimization, tracking and keep watch over. It sincerely provides the a number of merits of molten carbonate gas cells for the effective conversion of strength, and likewise contains fresh advancements during this cutting edge expertise. the full is rounded off via an appendix that includes benchmark issues of equations and parameters.
important examining for method, chemical and tool engineers, in addition to these operating in strength expertise, chemists and electrochemists, fabrics scientists, and energy-supplying businesses.
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Results presented in dimensionless numbers are more difficult to understand for those who are accustomed to think in dimensional parameters. Despite these drawbacks, the mentioned advantages are dominant and thus all model equations presented in this work are completely in dimensionless form. In the appendix the reader finds a complete list of all dimensionless quantities together with their physical interpretation. Concerning the notation, the dimensionless parameters are expressed in Greek symbols whenever possible.
Concerning the reliability of the HotModule, it can be stated that the fuel cell stack, which is the main part of the plant, is characterised by a very high reliability. Nearly all malfunctions which occurred during the field trial, originated from the peripheral devices. Especially the electrical inverter caused some failures of the fuel cell which could more or less be traced back to software problems. Thanks to some adjustments of the relevant programs it was possible to realize a stable operation mode of the fuel cell.
23 24 1 MTU’s Carbonate Fuel Cell HotModule Some of the realised plants were installed for a small stand-alone grid; but this is the exemption, because such grid shall be characterised by a permanent constant load, which normally cannot be granted. Some of the realised plants were installed for DC supply in order to feed telecommunication and IT facilities via DC/DC converters. An interesting application is the application as uninterrupted power supply (UPS), either DC or AC. Whereas a UPS normally uses three subsystems, namely the grid as base load, batteries for a short time power source and a piston engine generator for emergency power production, the fuel-cell-based UPS consists of only two subsystems, the fuel cell system for base load and the grid for emergency.