Combined model of fuel cell and microturbine based distributed generation system

Abstract

Distributed Generation (DG) play an active role in the distribution network due to its minimum loss, maximum efficiency and environmental impact. Moreover DG can supply base load power which improves the system stability, reliability and power quality. Among the different combined DG systems like solar with wind, tidal with geothermal and others, fuel cell with microturbine is the most economical due to fuel flexibility and inner relation between each other. The hybrid system can utilize exhaust fuel and heat from fuel cell to increase the system efficiency. This paper investigates combined model solid oxide fuel cell/microturbine generator (SOFC/MTG) hybrid system, in which the anode exhaust of SOFC contains reminder of fuel. The exhaust hot gas and waste fuel are mixed with fresh fuel and compressed air is burned inside the burner. The pressurized hot gas from the combustor is expanded through turbine driving the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM). The governing schemes of combined SOFC/MTG (Fuel & air flow) are controlled by the DC link voltage and current. The generated power of MTG is converted to AC/DC/AC to combine with fuel cell and frequency conversion. The hybrid model of SOFC/MTG with power converter is developed in MATLAB/Simulink library and simulation result shows transient response of hybrid SOFC/MTG DG system. � 2011 IEEE.