Matteo Luigi De Pascali, a student in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano, won the 2023 CCTA Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper ‘A Control-Oriented 1-D Model of a Planar Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell for Oxy-Combustion Cycles.’
The paper was presented during the 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from August 16 to 18, 2023.
The paper proposes a solid oxide fuel cell model (SOFC) intended to be used in the study of the SOS-CO2 cycle for control studies purposes. Solid oxide fuel cells’ working conditions are challenging and require adapting the model to handle properly reformate mixtures at the anode and carbon dioxide-rich mixtures at the cathode while keeping its formulation as simple as possible.
Therefore, the study adapts a model proposed in a previous contribution for the new working conditions, provides insights related to the implementation of the Modelica object-oriented modeling language used to design the model, reproduces the tests presented in literature and extends the validation through a comparison with experimental data. Finally, the model is tested under SOS-CO2 cycle operative conditions.