Active and passive fuel recirculation for solid oxide and proton exchange membrane fuel cells

J Hou, M Yang, J Zhang - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Fuel recirculation is extremely important to fuel cell performance and durability, but it seems
not to receive enough consideration so far. We thoroughly reviewed active and passive fuel …

Control of oxygen-to-carbon ratio and fuel utilization with regard to solid oxide fuel cell systems with anode exhaust gas recirculation: A review

F Schäfer, S Egger, D Steiner, M Carré… - Journal of Power Sources, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the possible solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system configurations providing the highest
potential of electrical DC-efficiency of up to 65% is a SOFC-system with anode exhaust gas …

Numerical investigation of geometry parameters for design of high performance ejectors

Y Zhu, W Cai, C Wen, Y Li - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique is employed to investigate the
effects of two important ejector geometry parameters: the primary Nozzle Exit Position (NXP) …

Fuel ejector design and optimization for solid oxide fuel cells using response surface methodology and multi-objective genetic algorithm

W Song, X Shen, Y Huang, P Jiang, Y Zhu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Ejectors are the main devices used to circulate high-temperature anode exhaust gases for
solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) for recovering and utilizing water vapor and heat. To optimize …

Auxiliary-ejector-based hydrogen recirculation system to broaden PEMFC operating range

M Yu, C Wang, L Wang, X Wang, D Li - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents an auxiliary-ejector-based hydrogen recirculation system to widen the
operating range of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell system (PEMFCS). An auxiliary …

Performance comparison between partial oxidation and methane steam reforming processes for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) micro combined heat and power (CHP) …

V Liso, AC Olesen, MP Nielsen, SK Kær - Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of this research work is to describe in qualitative and quantitative form the
performance of a micro Combined Heat and Power system for residential application based …

Structural optimization of hydrogen recirculation ejector for proton exchange membrane fuel cells considering the boundary layer separation effect

J Bian, Y Zhang, Y Liu, L Gong, X Cao - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Ejectors can greatly improve the efficiency of proton exchange membrane fuel cells
(PEMFCs) by pumping unreacted hydrogen, and boundary layer separation (BLS) …

Numerical studies on wide-operating-range ejector based on anodic pressure drop characteristics in proton exchange membrane fuel cell system

P Pei, P Ren, Y Li, Z Wu, D Chen, S Huang, X Jia - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The applicable operating range of the ejector is limited in the proton exchange membrane
fuel cell system, although the ejector recirculates the unused hydrogen reliably without …

Numerical investigation of an ejector for anode recirculation in proton exchange membrane fuel cell system

Y Yin, M Fan, K Jiao, Q Du, Y Qin - Energy conversion and management, 2016 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional axisymmetric ejector model neglects the non-axisymmetric flow properties
in the ejector and may not apply well for the ejector with a side-branch secondary flow tube …

Area ratio effects to the performance of air-cooled ejector refrigeration cycle with R134a refrigerant

Y Jia, C Wenjian - Energy Conversion and Management, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, the key ejector geometry parameters for an air-cooled ejector cycle using
R134a with cooling capacity of 2kW are designed by 1D analysis. Through enlarging the …