Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells

DESIGN AND OPERATION
- Development of Hot Module-MCFC
- Operational Experiences
- Conceptual Design/ Reforming Concepts

MODEL-BASED PROCESS ANALYSIS
- MCFC Model Family
- Index Analysis of Models
- Steady State Process Analysis
- Analysis of Process Dynamics
- Parameter Identification

OPTIMIZATION AND ADVANCED CONTROL
- Control/ State Observer
- Optimal Control Strategies
- Optimization of Reforming Catalyst Distribution

APPENDIX: BENCHMARK PROBLEM/ EQUATIONS AND PARAMETERS

Kai Sundmacher studied mechanical and chemical engineering at the Universities of Hanover, Braunschweig and Clausthal. After gaining his PhD in 1995 and his lecturing qualification in 1998 from TU Clausthal, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. In 1999 he became a full professor for Process Systems Engineering at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, and since 2001 he is also the Director for Process Engineering at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg. Professor Sundmacher's current research interests include integrated chemical processes, dynamics of particulate processes, and dynamics of fuel cell systems.

Achim Kienle received his PhD and his lecturing qualification from the University of Stuttgart. He heads a research group on synthesis and dynamics of chemical processes at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg since 1998. In addition, he has held the chair for Automation/Modeling at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg since 2002. Professor Kienle's research interests include the synthesis and dynamics of integrated chemical processes, population balance modeling and dynamics of particulate processes, and dynamics and control of chemical plants.

Hans Josef Pesch studied mathematics and physics at the University of Cologne, Germany, and obtained both his Ph.D. and his lecturing qualification from Munich University of Technology in 1978 and 1986, respectively. In 1987 he became a visiting professor at the University of California in San Diego. From 1988-1989 he held a professorship for mathematics and theoretical computer science at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich. After an extraordinary professorship at Munich University of Technology, he became a full professor for numerical mathematics and scientific computing at Clausthal