Heat and Mass Transfer in a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Fuel Cell Temperature Distribution)

Research, Development, and Demonstration of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Systems

“…Kobayashi et al 126 developed a complete cell performance model and extensively compared the calculated results with actual data measured in several Hitachi Corp. stacks.…”

“…126 These are caused by 1. The massive end plates which caused heat flows in the stacking direction 2.…”

“…Effect of separator conductivity (as effective conductivity As) and cross-plate thermal conductivity (as effective conductivity Ase) on electrolyte temperature distribution in a 3600-cm 2 cell. (From Kobayashi et at 126). …”

Modeling of molten carbonate fuel cell based on the volume–resistance characteristics and experimental analysis

“…Many theoretical models have ever been developed for the prediction of MCFC performance [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Usually the fuel cell models require the consideration of gas flow, heat transfer, mass transfer and cell voltage-current relationship.…”

Effect of inlet flow maldistribution on the thermal and electrical performance of a molten carbonate fuel cell unit

“…Kobayashi et al [1] used a numerical method to solve the steady-state temperature distribution of fuel cells with reaction areas of 900 and 3600 cm 2 . They compared experimental data with numerical results, and found reasonable agreement.…”