Fuel processing for fuel cell systems in transportation and portable power applications

M Krumpelt, TR Krause, JD Carter, JP Kopasz… - Catalysis today, 2002 - Elsevier
… on-board fuel processing technology for reforming hydrocarbon fuels to … fuels, the
development of new reforming catalysts, and the design of fuel processors for these small fuel cell

Development of a soldier-portable fuel cell power system: Part I: A bread-board methanol fuel processor

DR Palo, JD Holladay, RT Rozmiarek… - Journal of Power …, 2002 - Elsevier
… an ultimate 1-kg fuel processor/fuel cell assembly, a base … a fuel processor efficiency of
45% (LHV of H 2 out/LHV of fuel in) and an estimated net efficiency of 22% (assuming a fuel cell

Portable fuel cells–Fundamentals, technologies and applications

CO Colpan, I Dincer, F Hamdullahpur - Mini-Micro Fuel Cells …, 2008 - Springer
… of portable fuel cells, life cycle costs of these fuel cells are … rate of fuel entering the fuel cell,
E is the operating cell voltage, … the fuel cell parameters such as geometry of the fuel cell and …

Fuel processor development for a soldierportable fuel cell system

DR Palo, JD Holladay, RT Rozmiarek… - … Technology: IMRET 5 …, 2001 - Springer
… methanol fuel processor has been developed for portable power … Assuming a 14-day mission
life and a I-kg fuel processor/fuel cell … Operating at 13 We, the system has a fuel processor

High-energy portable fuel cell power sources

SR Narayan, TI Valdez - The Electrochemical Society Interface, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… power sources can be categorized by the fuel and type of fuel cell used for operation. … (PEM)
type of fuel cell; this type of fuel cell is known as a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The …

Portable fuel cell systems for America's army: technology transition to the field

AS Patil, TG Dubois, N Sifer, E Bostic, K Gardner… - Journal of Power …, 2004 - Elsevier
… critical to small military and/or commercial fuel cell systems, and is being pursued in a …
fuel cell units (>500 W), it is imperative that the fuel cell power units be able to operate on fuels

Miniature fuel processors for portable fuel cell power supplies

J Holladay, E Jones, DR Palo, M Phelps… - MRS Online …, 2002 - Springer
… microscale fuel processor, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, … fuels (eg, up to 12.4 kWhr/kg
for diesel) with clean fuel cell … This paper summarizes work on hydrocarbon selection, fuel

Fuel processing for portable power applications

J Hu, Y Wang, D VanderWiel, C Chin, D Palo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2003 - Elsevier
… Compact fuel cell systems that operate on liquid hydrocarbon fuels offer an efficient, … greater
portability and longer mission lifetime. For instance, the energy densities of diesel fuel and …

Fuel processors for fuel cell APU applications

T Aicher, B Lenz, F Gschnell, U Groos, F Federici… - Journal of Power …, 2006 - Elsevier
… Set aside the sulfur “thread”, this paper presents a brief overview over activities by industrial
researchers in the field of fuel processors and APU development for mobile applications. …

A portable fuel processor for hydrogen production from ethanol in a 250 Wel fuel cell system

T Aicher, J Full, A Schaadt - International journal of hydrogen energy, 2009 - Elsevier
… optimization of a mobile ethanol reformer fuel cell system for … reactor, and a tail gas combustor.
A minimum amount of … dry basis) in the reformer system product gas, ie at the outlet of the …