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such mass flow <strong>and</strong> power output when <strong>the</strong> live steam pressure was too high. There<strong>for</strong>e,<strong>for</strong> Case B, 60 bar was selected as <strong>the</strong> live steam pressure in <strong>the</strong> steam cycle. Shortly <strong>the</strong>reasons to select this pressure was basically on two important issues; a) avoiding toohigh moister content at <strong>the</strong> last stage of steam turbine, b) avoiding problems associatedwith designing <strong>and</strong> constructing <strong>the</strong> first row of <strong>the</strong> steam turbine when pressure isrelatively high with relatively low mass flow.Efficiency [%]49 17.548.5 1548 12.547.5 1047 7.5 plant46.5 moisture 5M oisture content [% ]46 2.549.5 84 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 2030 50 70 90 110 130Live steam pressure [bar]Live steam pressure [bar]a) b)Efficiency [%]60 2258.5 2057 1855.5 1654 1452.5 12 plant51 moisture10Figure 2. Electrical efficiency <strong>and</strong> moister content of <strong>the</strong> combined SOFC–ST plants asfunction of live steam pressure, a) case A, <strong>and</strong> b) Case B.M oisture content [% ]3.1 Effect of Fuel Cell Operating Temperature on Plant Per<strong>for</strong>manceThe plant with hybrid recuperator shown in Fig. 1, Case B is now considered <strong>for</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>rstudy but with 0.9 <strong>and</strong> 100 mA/cm 2 <strong>for</strong> SOFC utilization factor respective SOFC currentdensity. The calculated results were <strong>the</strong>n shown in Table 2. Along 780C (currentdevelopment), <strong>the</strong> 650C (possible future generation) was also considered.As could be seen from Table 2, with current temperature technology (780C) <strong>the</strong> plantefficiency of 62.7% was available, while <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> future generation (650C if possible) <strong>the</strong>plant efficiency could reach to 54.7%. All <strong>the</strong>se values are considerably higher than <strong>the</strong>traditional combined cycle with integrated gasification. Live steam pressure was set to60 bar as discussed above. Live steam temperatures were considerably lower than <strong>the</strong>current technology <strong>for</strong> steam turbines (about 650C). For <strong>the</strong> 780C case, about 82.8% of<strong>the</strong> total net power was coming from SOFC plant. This value was 77.5% <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> possiblefuture technology.Table 2. Calculated net powers <strong>and</strong> efficiencies <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> optimized plants.Parameter / SOFC operating T 780C 650CLive steam pressure (bar) 60 60Live steam temperature (C) 420.3 405.0Net power output (kW) 8582 7478Net power output from SOFC cycle (kW) 7121 5813Net power output from ST cycle (kW) 1490 1694Steam blower power consumption (kW) 29 29SOFC cell voltage (V) 0.884 0.723Gas temperature be<strong>for</strong>e hybrid recuperator (C) 232.2 236.9Moisture content after ST (%) 13.9 14.7HRSG effectiveness (%) 49.4 46.2Thermal efficiency of steam cycle (LHV %) 29.6 28.8Thermal efficiency of SOFC cycle (LHV %) 41.7 31.9Thermal efficiency of plant (LHV %) 62.7 54.7Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 295

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