The paper reports on the status of efforts to engineer a microchannel steam reforming system to enable a rapid cold start capability. The steam reformer is intended to be coupled with a WGS and PROX reactor to provide reformate to a PEM fuel cell for an automotive propulsion application. A compact and efficient microchannel steam reformer was previously developed that required ~15 minutes to accomplish a cold start. The objective of the current work was to reduce this start time to
Revised: August 12, 2010 |
Published: April 29, 2004
Citation
Whyatt G.A., C.M. Fischer, and J.M. Davis. 2004.Development of a Rapid-Start On-Board Automotive Steam Reformer. In Proceedings of the AIChE 2004 Spring National Meeting, Paper No. 120c. New York, New York:American Institute of Chemical Engineers.PNNL-SA-40939.