 Pore scale investigation of gaseous mixture flow in porous anode of solid oxide fuel cellZheng Dang and Han Xu Energy, 2016, vol. 107, issue C, 295-304 Abstract: A two-fluid finite-difference LB (Lattice Boltzmann) model is developed for multi-component flow. Then, a pore scale LB model is further developed for multi-component flow in porous media with heterogeneous microstructure. Thus, the present LB model is independent on any structure statistical parameters of the porous media, which is contrary to the numerical methods assuming the porous media is homogeneous. Compared with existing LB models for multi-component flow in the SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) anode, the present LB model is capable of simulating mixture flow with larger ratios of molecular weights, thus it is qualified to meet the fuel flexibility of the SOFC. By using this model, the mass transfer of gaseous mixture flow in a SOFC anode is studied and the local molar fraction distributions of gaseous mixture are obtained within the irregular porous anode directly. The influences of anode microstructure, dimensionless reaction flux and fuel composition on anode performance are investigated. The quantitative relationship between the porous microstructure and anode performance is obtained. Keywords: Solid oxide fuel cell; Porous anode; Lattice Boltzmann method; Pore scale; Microstructure; Mass transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:107:y:2016:i:c:p:295-304 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.015 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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