Pathways to commercialisation of biogas fuelled solid oxide fuel cells in European wastewater treatment plants

Oluleye, Gbemi; Gandiglio, Marta; Santarelli, Massimo; Hawkes, Adam

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116127

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“…However, the study from Italy found that the life cycle cost for fuel cell is € 0.1532/kWh [20]. According to [21], about 71% cost reduction is required to enable the fuel cell penetrating the current market. Figure 9 shows the relationship between the cost and carbon dioxide emissions.…”

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A Model of Life Cycle on Biogas Feed to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell in Malaysia: Economic and Environmental Perspective

Shafie

Othman

Nu'man

et al. 2021

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Abundant of palm oil waste creates huge potential in producing biogas. Technically, biogas can be fed as an input gas into the fuel cell system to get the electricity output. This paper aims to estimate the life cycle costs and environmental impact for the biogas feed to the solid oxide fuel cell system in two different models: Individual System and Centralized System. Then the system boundary-setting starts from palm oil plantation until the fuel cell system. The result indicates that the individual system is more efficient due to lower cost and emission compared to the centralized system. Life cycle cost for the individual and centralized system is RM 2.56 / kWh and RM 7.04 / kWh, respectively. Then the carbon dioxide emissions are 0.2034 CO2-EQ / kWh and 0.61 CO2-EQ / kWh. Hopefully, the outcome from this paper will be able to assist the decision-maker in planning to model the fuel cell combining with biogas system in the future. Apart from that, its objective is to focus on cost-efficient and more sustainable electricity generation.

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A Model of Life Cycle on Biogas Feed to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell in Malaysia: Economic and Environmental Perspective

Shafie

Othman

Nu'man

et al. 2021

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“…Second [28], in a SOFC, when fed with biogas, the reduction of oxygen takes place at the cathode, as shown in (8), while the reactions taking place at the anode are represented by (8) to (11).…”

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“…Considering the methodology proposed for this paper, it is known that the methane concentration is practically zero when considering the biogas reform. In (11) does not occur in this study and can be neglected to estimate the mass flow rates of the cogeneration system. In (12) to (17) were used to calculate the mass flow rates of the fuel cell.…”

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Mathematical modeling of a solid oxide fuel cell operating on biogas

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Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are the most efficient devices for directly converting the chemical energy of a fuel into electrical energy. This is one of the main reasons why these fuel cells have received a lot of attention from the scientific community and from several developers who have invested in the use of this technology in various applications. Biogas is one of the products of anaerobic decomposition (absence of gaseous oxygen) of organic matter, which occurs due to the action of certain types of bacteria. Biogas is mainly composed of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and its use in solid oxide fuel cells has been investigated since Biogas is a renewable biofuel. The aim of this paper was to perform mathematical modeling of a solid oxide fuel cell operating on biogas. The results confirmed that the overall efficiency of the system is above 94% and the largest irreversibilities of the system are related to heat exchangers.

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“…On the other hand, each of these treatment plants and related processes has special characteristics and attitudes. Determining the strengths and weaknesses of each unit and process gives a proper outlook to managers and consultants through the design process [17][18][19][20].…”

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Sensitivity analysis of parameters affecting suspended growth in industrial wastewater treatment plants; with emphasis on economic performance criteria

Gheibi¹,

chahkandi²,

Kian³

et al. 2021

Ann Environ Sci Toxicol

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Industrial wastewater treatment is of high priority due to the presence of an extraordinary concentration of dangerous pollutants. Similar to urban wastewater treatment plants, there are plenty of options while designing industrial ones which need various analyses and researches to choose correctly. One of the most effi cient ways to solve this problem is to implement Economic and Sensitivity Analysis. This research has studied designing an industrial wastewater treatment plant utilizing three different biological treatment methods (including Sequential Batch Reactors (SBR), plug-fl ow activated sludge with a secondary clarifi er, and step aeration activated sludge with a secondary clarifi er). It also measures the sensitivity of performance cost parameters to factors affecting the suspended growth unit. The results of the economic analysis showed that using SBR has the highest construction cost of $ 70,200,000 and the highest total cost of 96,900,000. Sensitivity analysis showed that by adjusting design retention time and variance between heterotrophic microorganism decay rate and the reality, using activated carbon-based systems could signifi cantly reduce total annual costs.

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Pathways to commercialisation of biogas fuelled solid oxide fuel cells in European wastewater treatment plants

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

A Model of Life Cycle on Biogas Feed to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell in Malaysia: Economic and Environmental Perspective

A Model of Life Cycle on Biogas Feed to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell in Malaysia: Economic and Environmental Perspective

Mathematical modeling of a solid oxide fuel cell operating on biogas

Sensitivity analysis of parameters affecting suspended growth in industrial wastewater treatment plants; with emphasis on economic performance criteria

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