Sistema di conversione di energia

Data di pubblicazione

09-02-2022

Codice

EG.19.096.A

Stato

Disponibile

Data di priorità

16-12-2019

Fase

Nazionale (domanda brevetto italiano ) e internazionale (PCT)

Titolare

Politecnico di Milano

Dipartimento

DIPARTIMENTO DI ENERGIA

Autori

Campanari Stefano, Martelli Emanuele, Gatti Manuele, Scaccabarozzi Roberto

Descrizione

The present invention relates to an energy conversion system comprising: - a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) unit having an anode and a cathode side, configured for receiving a fuel and a steam of oxidant and for converting a fraction of chemical power of the fuel directly into electric power through one or more electrochemical reactions occurring on the anode and the cathode side of the SOFC unit involving said fuel and said oxidant, parts of the fuel and of the steam of oxidant being maintained unconverted following said electrochemical reactions; a combustor unit arranged to receive the unconverted fuel and the unconverted oxidant from the SOFC unit, configured for the combustion of the unconverted fuel using the unconverted oxidant, thereby converting the unconverted fuel and the unconverted oxidant into product gas; - an expander unit arranged to receive the product gas exiting the combustor and configured for expanding said product gas exiting the combustor into flue gas being; - a cooler unit in thermal relationship with a heat sink and configured for cooling said flue gas exiting the expander unit; - a separator for removing condensed species from the cooled gas exiting the cooler unit, hereby obtaining a recycled stream; and - a first compression unit configured for increasing the pressure of said oxidant to a value suitable for the SOFC unit and the combustor unit.

Contatto

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