Simulation on Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (PAFC) with Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) using Aspen Plus

Chemical Engineering

The production of energy by pure and efficient way without any harm to environment is the main issue of the today’s struggling generation, so scientist and researchers’ team are working on fuel cells. The PAFC’s convert the simple chemical energy to electrical energy, and they are much efficient producers of these type of energy, without any harm to environment and it is a clean and pure form of electricity. These fuel cells have the potential to provide electricity commercially. The reactants of the PAFC’s are natural gases such as hydrogen, biogas/syngas (methane) and air. The product of the cell is electricity, and the side product is steam, which is condensed, and we get further in form of water. Phosphoric Acid fuel cell has three components of operation (Cathode, Anode, Ceramic material/monolithic material). The combination of these components leads to number of unique characteristics of the cell such as stack design, flexibility of cell, manufacturing process. The author is interested to make efficient fuel cell to replace traditional thermal power generation units. The project discusses PAFC’s characteristics and features that will be backbone of rising technologies. This paper includes Preparation of fuel cell and study on structure of cell.

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