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    Design and Thermodynamic Analysis of a Novel Methanol, Hydrogen, and Power Trigeneration System Based on Renewable Energy and Flue Gas Carbon Dioxide
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science LTD, 2021) Nazerifard, Reza; Khani, Leyla; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Behnam; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden
    In this paper, a new trigeneration system is proposed to decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide emission and produce methanol, hydrogen, and power. The system is composed of an organic Rankine cycle, a direct methanol fuel cell, a carbon capture unit, a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer, and a methanol synthesis unit. A flue gas stream with a defined composition, solar energy, and the atmospheric air are the system?s inlets. In the design step, special attention is paid to heat and mass integration between different components so that its waste can be lowered as much as possible. Then, mass balance law, energy conservation principle, exergy relations, and auxiliary equations are applied for each subsystem to investigate the system's thermodynamic performance. Also, the effect of changing operating parameters on the performance of each subsystem is studied. The obtained results show that the proposed system has the energy and exergy efficiencies of 66.84% and 55.10%, respectively. Furthermore, 94% of the total exergy destruction rate belongs to the water electrolyzer, while the contribution of the organic Rankine cycle is negligible. The performance of the methanol synthesis reactor depends strongly on its inlet temperature. Maximum equilibrium methanol concentration and carbon dioxide conversion are achieved at the inlet temperature of 210 degrees C. The parametric studies reveal that there is an optimum fuel cell current density in which its produced power density is maximized.
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    Citation - WoS: 38
    Citation - Scopus: 43
    Characterization and Performance Evaluation of Pt[sbnd]ru/C[sbnd]tio2 Anode Electrocatalyst for Dmfc Applications
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Erçelik, Mustafa; Özden, Adnan; Şeker, Erol; Çolpan, C. Özgür
    In this study, the effect of introduction of titania (TiO2) material into Pt[sbnd]Ru/C anode electrocatalyst on the performance of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) was investigated. TiO2 materials were first synthesized applying a sol–gel method and then incorporated directly into commercial Pt[sbnd]Ru/C anode electrocatalyst with different TiO2 weight ratios (5, 15, and 25 wt.%) to improve the performance of the DMFC. For comparison, the anode electrocatalysts with the same TiO2 weight ratios were also prepared using commercial TiO2 materials. The performance tests of the DMFCs based on these composite anode electrocatalysts were conducted and their performances were also compared to that of a DMFC based on a traditional anode electrocatalyst (Pt[sbnd]Ru/C) under various operating conditions. In addition, 4 h short-term stability tests were conducted for all the manufactured DMFCs. The highest power densities were found as 705.12 W/m2 and 709.32 W/m2 at 80 °C and 1 M for the DMFCs based on Pt[sbnd]Ru/C[sbnd]TiO2 anode electrocatalysts containing 5 wt.% of commercial and in-house TiO2, respectively. The results of the short-term stability tests showed that introduction of 5 wt.% of commercial TiO2 into commercial Pt[sbnd]Ru/C anode electrocatalyst improved its stability characteristics significantly.