Design and manufacturing of a tubular solid oxide fuel cell combustion system

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks are electrochemical, electrical and thermal devices as well. Today there are different developments of planar and tubular SOFC stacks including their integration in power systems. Any successful stack design must yield to a high efficiency, a good thermal performance, a sufficient power density at market prices for the total system and a good heat management including the integration in combined cycles. A new design of a tubular SOFC combustion system is presented and the actually evaluated possibilities of manufacturing are discussed.