ACID FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES FOR VEHICULAR POWER PLANTS
Fuel cells offer a number of significant advantages as vehicular power sources. These include high efficiency, virtually no pollution, and the ability to use nonpetroleum fuel. To date, most fuel cell systems have been designed for either utility or space applications, which have substantially different requirements than vehicular applications. Several fuel cell technologies were assessed specifically for vehicular applications. The results of these assessments were used to calculate the performance and fuel consumption of a fuel cell powered GM X car. Results indicate that the phosphoric acid technology, which has the most development experience, can power a vehicle with reasonable performance, with a range of over 350 miles on 20 gallons of methanol and with high energy efficiency. Solid polymer electrolyte technology, which is second in development experience, can provide performance approaching that of an ICE vehicle and an energy efficiency 149% higher than the ICE-powered version.
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Supplemental Notes:
- The proceeding of the 17th Intercociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Los Angeles, California, August 8, 1982.
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Corporate Authors:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos, NM United States 87545 -
Authors:
- Huff, J R
- Srinivasan, S
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1982-8
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 663-666
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Arterial highways; Electric power plants; Electrolytes; Fuel cells; Fuel consumption; Methanol; Motor vehicles; Phosphoric acid; Polymers; Vehicle performance
- Subject Areas: Energy; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Vehicles and Equipment; I95: Vehicle Inspection;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00386700
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
- Report/Paper Numbers: CONF-82-814
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 30 1984 12:00AM