Standby and Shutdown Cycles Modeling of SOFC Lifetime Prediction

Abstract In order to more accurately predict the impact of solid oxide fuel cells to stack life on standby and shutdown, this paper proposes a modeling method based on experimental data. Which is based on Elman neural network(NN). At the same time, a main factor is considered in the modeling process which is the effect of cooling rate on the stack. In the process of modeling, the most obvious cooling rate is used to modeling. There are two different influencing factors on classify, the training set and the verification set respectively. After the reliability of the model, the Solid Oxide Fuel cell (SOFC) stack life prediction is carried out. From the predict results and the experimental results, it is found that the prediction results are good and the high precision.