TY - GEN A1 - Berg, Heinz Peter A1 - Kleissl, Marko A1 - Himmelberg, Axel A1 - Lehmann, Mario A1 - Prechavut, Nontavut A1 - Vorpahl, Michael ED - Prukvilailert, Monchai T1 - Heat balancing of direct reforming fuel cells in MGT-SOFC hybrid systems T2 - 9th Thai Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (TSME-ICoME 2018) 11–14 December 2018, Phuket, Thailand N2 - Solid oxide fuel cells convert chemical energy in electrical energy and are highly suitable for the conversion of hydrocarbon based fuels and products from PowerToGas conversions. Embedded in a micro gas turbine-cycle instead of the combustion chamber the heat energy of the injected fuel, released in the SOFC-Stack, can additionally converted into work and by a turbine-generator into electricity. In a compact system, SOFC stacks are designed to realize a direct steam-reforming process inside. In such direct-reforming fuel cell systems the SOFC operating temperature due to the heat demand for reforming, can be reduced to a value in the range of the outlet temperature of the downstream flow (650°C). If the cycle uses a recuperating system, the operating conditions of the SOFC can be realized without additional high-temperature heat exchanger systems. The system with an uncooled turbine, described in [1], just can reach the operating temperature with an additional high-temperature heat exchange. The system described in this publication does not require an additional high-temperature heat exchanger, because the X-value, as the ratio between the exchanged heat quantity and the required amount of heat to complete the MGT-cycle [2] due to the referring process, is nearly zero and can be realized via the inner container wall (of the MLC). The cycle is completed (between the SOFC and the turbine entry) by the heat input of an afterburner. Here the unreacted fuel of the SOFC fuel-stream is used to provide the necessary heat energy for the downstream turbo-generator-system. KW - MGT-SOFC KW - Heat balancing KW - simulation KW - thermodynamic cycle KW - effectivity Y1 - 2018 UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/501/1/012007/meta U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/501/1/012007 SN - 1757-899X SP - 50 EP - 60 PB - IOP Publishing/IOP Science CY - Bristol ET - 1. Auflage ER -