For enhancing the system efficiency of solid oxide fuel cell and decrease the energy consumption of CO2 capture, a system based on SOFC, organic Rankine cycle and power-cooling cycle is advanced which utilizes refrigeration capacity to liquefy and recover CO2. The model of cogeneration system is built by Aspen Plus software. And the effects of SOFC operating pressure, current density, fuel utilization rate and steam-carbon ratio on the thermal performance of the system are explored under the design conditions. The results show that the efficiencies of SOFC power generation, total power generation, and the combined power-cooling reach about 46.19%, 72.47%, 85.48%, respectively. Compared with the cogeneration system using three-stage compressed liquefied CO2, the total efficiency is improved by 1.74%. When SOFC operating pressure is close to 0.7 MPa, the total power generation efficiency of the system is the highest, reaching 72.48%; When the current density increases to the ultimate current density of 6000 A·m−2, the increase of voltage polarization loss becomes larger, which is bad for the battery; When the fuel utilization rate is 0.85, the SOFC power generation efficiency is the most efficient which is 46.19%; Steam-carbon ratio doesn’t have a big effect on all parameters of the whole system, but there is also the best steam-carbon ratio. When the team-carbon ratio is 3, the system efficiency and power-cooling efficiency are 72.49% and 85.70%, respectively.
LIU Shiyao, TIAN Songfeng, LIU Yaxuan, BAO Zhongxiang, LI Zhengkuan, ZHANG Du.
Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of a New Type of Power-cooling System Based on SOFC[J]. Journal of Engineering Thermophysics, 2023, 44(8): 2068-2078