Fuel cell and advanced turbine power cycle
Solar has a vested interest in integration of gas turbines and high temperature fuels (particularly solid oxide fuel cells[SOFC]); this would be a backup for achieving efficiencies on the order of 60% with low exhaust emissions. Preferred cycle is with the fuel cell as a topping system to the gas turbine; bottoming arrangements (fuel cells using the gas turbine exhaust as air supply) would likely be both larger and less efficient unless complex steam bottoming systems are added. The combined SOFC and gas turbine will have an advantage because it will have lower NOx emissions than any heat engine system. Market niche for initial product entry will be the dispersed or distributed power market in nonattainment areas. First entry will be of 1-2 MW units between the years 2000 and 2004. Development requirements are outlined for both the fuel cell and the gas turbine.
- Research Organization:
- Solar Turbines, Inc., San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-93MC30246
- OSTI ID:
- 431019
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/30246-96/C0707; CONF-9610235-2; ON: DE97050713
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on very high efficiency fuel cell/gas turbine power cycles, Morgantown, WV (United States), 19 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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