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In Fig. 1b, <strong>the</strong> energy of <strong>the</strong> off-gases from <strong>the</strong> HRSG was fur<strong>the</strong>r utilized in a hybridrecuperator (HR in <strong>the</strong> figure) to preheat <strong>the</strong> air after <strong>the</strong> compressor of <strong>the</strong> SOFC cycle.In o<strong>the</strong>r words, heat was recycled back to <strong>the</strong> SOFC cycle. The study of Rokni (2010)showed that such technique increases <strong>the</strong> plant efficiency significantly.SOFCGas CleanerSHGPHGasifierWooda)CPBurnerAPSteamAirAshAirECO EVA SUPSTDeaeratorCondenserSOFCGas CleanerSHGPHGasifierWoodb)HRCPBurnerAPSteamAirAshAirECO EVA SUPSTDeaeratorCondenserFigure 1. Integrated gasification SOFC-ST plant a) without hybrid recuperator, b) withhybrid recuperator.The main parameters <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> plant are set in table 1. The pressure drops are <strong>the</strong> settingvalues <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> program, however, pressure drops are a function of channel sizes <strong>and</strong> massflows <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> channel geometry is not kwon. There<strong>for</strong>e, <strong>the</strong>se values are calculatedbased on <strong>the</strong> available data <strong>for</strong> each channel mass flow <strong>and</strong> dimensions. In addition, <strong>the</strong>calculations show that <strong>the</strong> final values in terms of plant power <strong>and</strong> efficiency do notchange significantly if <strong>the</strong>se values are changed slightly. Several calculations have beencarried out to find <strong>the</strong> optimal extraction pressure as well as <strong>the</strong> optimum live steampressure which are not included in this study. The HRSG terminal temperature wasassumed to be 30C while its pinch temperature <strong>and</strong> approach temperature were set to15C <strong>and</strong> 2C, respectively.In order to optimize <strong>the</strong> systems presented above, significant numbers of simulationshave been carried out. Plants efficiencies versus live steam pressures <strong>and</strong> moistercontents are presented in Fig. 2. The results indicate that, <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> plant A had a maximumefficiency at live steam pressure of 8 bar (<strong>the</strong> solid-line in <strong>the</strong> figure). Note that <strong>the</strong> left-Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 293

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