Questions?  Contact:  Judi  Jones  asap@umich.edu  

 

Control  of  Solid  Oxide  Fuel  Cells  for  Power  Tracking  

ABSTRACT:  Solid   oxide   fuel   cells   (SOFC)   are   receiving   notice   as   an   attractive   technology   for   electricity  generation.    Their  high  efficiency,   low  pollution,   scalability,  and  high  performance   in  partial   loads  make  them  an  attractive  candidate  for  distributed  generation.    In  these  applications,  power  tracking  (ability  to  provide  variable  levels  of  power)  with  minimal  storage  is  a  highly  desirable  feature.    While  the  underlying  electrochemistry  allows  rapid  changes  in  power  levels,  the  resulting  thermal  stress  could  have  significant  adverse  effect  on  the  durability  and  integrity  of  the  system.    A  variety  of  concepts  from  systems  point  of  view   are   used   to   address   this   challenge.     These   include   selection   and   design   of   controllers,   as   well   as  alternative  approaches  to  operation  and  design.  

 

BIO:  Faryar   Jabbari  has  been   a   faculty  member   in   the  Mechanical   and  Aerospace  Engineering  department  of   the  University   of   California,   Irvine   (UCI)   since  1986.     He  has   served   as   an   Associate  Editor   for   IEEE  Transactions  on  Automatic  Control  and  Automatica,  Program  Committee  Chair  for  IEEE  Conference  on  Decision  and  Control  (CDC-­‐09)  and  American  Control  Conference  (ACC-­‐11),  as  well  as  leading  a  few  technical  committees  (IFAC,  Hugo  O  Shock  Prize,  etc.)    His  energy  related  work  is  in  collaboration  with  the  Advance  Power  and  Energy  Program  (APEP)  of  UCI.  

Faryar  Jabbari  Professor  

University  of  California,  Irvine  Department  of  Mechanical  Engineering  

 

Friday,  March  20,  2015    

3:30  –  4:30  pm    •    1500  EECS  

Sponsored  by:  Bosch,  Eaton,  Ford,  GM,  The  MathWorks,  and  Toyota