Optimal Load Changes for a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Model

Molten carbonate fuel cells are a promising technology for future stationary power plants. In order to enhance service life a more detailed understanding of the dynamical behavior is needed. This is enabled by a hierarchy of mathematical models based on chemical and physical laws. These mathematical models allow numerical simulation and optimal control of load changes. Mathematically speaking, we solve an optimal control problem subject to a degenerated partial differential equation system coupled with an integro differential-algebraic equation system. New numerical results are presented.