Modelling of a solid oxide fuel cell CHP system coupled with a hot water storage tank for a single household

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2211-2229

  Liso, Vincenzo ^a   Zhao, Yingru ^b   Yang, Wenyuan ^b   Nielsen, Mads Pagh ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cogeneration; Energy system modeling; Solid oxide fuel cell; Storage heat tank

Indexed keywords

FUEL CELLS; FUEL STORAGE; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEAT STORAGE; HEATING; MATLAB; SETTLING TANKS; SYNTHESIS GAS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WASTE HEAT; WATER; WATER TANKS;

CO-GENERATION OF HEAT AND POWER; COGENERATION; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ENERGY SYSTEM MODEL; HEAT STORAGE TANKS; HOT WATER STORAGE TANKS; PROBLEM FORMULATION; RECOVERY PERFORMANCE;

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

EID: 84927139291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en8032211     Document Type: Article

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