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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been developing tubular type SOFC since 1984. With the support of NEDO during the fiscal years 2003 to 2004, some materials have been investigated in order to reduce resistance. The cell tube which is applied advanced materials had been developed, and was operated at 900{degree sign}C, 0.4MPa, 300 mA/cm2. Its output density of 0.21W/cm2 was achieved. The consignment research of NEDO is continued from 2005 to 2007. In this project, we are now developing a simulation technology of performance in order to optimize the cell tube configuration and advanced materials for a high power density cell tube. In 2006, a cell tube that was optimized by advanced simulation technology was developed. The cell tube was operated at 900°C, 0.6MPa, 750mA/cm2. Its output density of 0.5W/cm2 was achieved. This paper reports the current status of improvement of high power density tubular type SOFC at MHI.

The standard solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) performance is related to its chemical reaction, electrical resistance, gas diffusion polarization, and operating temperature. We start this paper by discussing the performance simulation from our research. A tubular-type SOFC has an axial direction distribution of the gas concentration, and its electrodes and electrolyte have an electric current density distribution. In addition, these distributions are important to the performance simulation. The analysis results were in good agreement with the experimental data, and this indicates that these are useful for a high performance SOFC design. The last part of this paper is about temperature distribution calculation for the SOFCs sub-module. Since performance change is by temperature, numerical thermal and fluid analysis is really important for SOFC module design. In this study, we discuss numerical analysis in SOFC module, considering the electrochemical /reforming reaction. The analysis results agreed well with the experimental data, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the prediction model.