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A novel control strategy with an anode variable geometry ejector for a SOFC-GT hybrid system

Chen, Jinwei
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Hu, Zhenchao
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Lu, Jinzhi  
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December 15, 2022
Energy

A novel control strategy was developed with an anode variable geometry ejector for a solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine (SOFC-GT) system. The anode inlet temperature was controlled by combining two modes to achieve a greater controllable range: anode variable geometry ejector adjusting and after-burner fuel valve adjusting. Two tests were carried out under small-scale and large-scale load steps. The results indicate that all controlled variables can be effectively kept around set-point. Moreover, the critical parameters are kept within safe ranges, including steam-to-carbon ratio higher than 2.0, peak temperature gradient below 10 K/cm, peak time-dependent temperature gradient below 3 K/min, and surge margin higher than 15%. The developed novel control strategy can maintain almost constant SOFC spatial temperature. The spatial temperature variation is within 2.50 K under 5% load step, and within 14.30 K under 30% load step. Besides, the novel control strategy can keep the system efficiency at a high level (more than 63.21%) during the load tracking. Compared with the conventional control strategy with a fixed geometry ejector, the results demonstrated that the novel control strategy can significantly improve the system performance, especially the transient behaviors of after-burner fuel rate, turbine inlet temperature, and system efficiency.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.energy.2022.125281
Web of Science ID

WOS:000919389800004

Author(s)
Chen, Jinwei
Hu, Zhenchao
Lu, Jinzhi  
Zhang, Huisheng
Weng, Shilie
Date Issued

2022-12-15

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Published in
Energy
Volume

261

Article Number

125281

Subjects

Thermodynamics

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Energy & Fuels

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solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine

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anode variable geometry ejector

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system control

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small-scale load step

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large-scale load step

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oxide fuel-cell

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gas-turbine

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performance evaluation

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recirculation

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design

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power

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integration

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model

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REVIEWED

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February 27, 2023
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