TY - JOUR N2 - The paper addresses the issues of quantification and understanding of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) based on numerical modelling carried out under four European, EU, research projects from the 7FP within the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, FCH JU, activities. It is a short review of the main projects’ achievements. The goal was to develop numerical analyses at a single cell and stack level. This information was integrated into a system model that was capable of predicting fuel cell phenomena and their effect on the system behaviour. Numerical results were analysed and favourably compared to experimental results obtained from the project partners. At the single SOFC level, a static model of the SOFC cell was developed to calculate output voltage and current density as functions of fuel utilisation, operational pressure and temperature. At the stack level, by improving fuel cell configuration inside the stack and optimising the operation conditions, thermal stresses were decreased and the lifetime of fuel cell systems increased. At the system level, different layouts have been evaluated at the steady-state and by dynamic simulations. Results showed that increasing the operation temperature and pressure improves the overall performance, while changes of the inlet gas compositions improve fuel cell performance. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107199/PDF/art4_CPE-39-4_INTERNET.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107199 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 377–393 KW - Solid Oxide Fuel Cell KW - stack KW - fuel cell system KW - Computational Fluid Dynamics KW - CFD KW - Finite Element Method KW - FEM KW - modelling KW - Process simulation A1 - Pianko-Oprych, Paulina A1 - Jaworski, Zdzisław A1 - Zinko, Tomasz A1 - Palus, Mateusz PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Chemical and Process Engineering VL - vol. 39 DA - 2018.12.27 T1 - A review of the numerical studies on planar and tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cells within four EU projects of the 7th framework programme SP - 377–393 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107199 T2 - Chemical and Process Engineering ER -