Thermodynamic assessment of SOFC-ICGT hybrid cycle: Energy analysis and entropy generation minimization

Hybrid power systems are being developed by the integration of fuel cell with conventional gas turbine. Integration of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with gas turbine (GT) to form a hybrid cycle based power plant has been considered as this is known to be highly efficient primarily performance of SOFC being not limited to Carnot efficiency. In this article, a novel and optimal thermal integration of SOFC with intercooled-recuperated gas turbine...