METHANOL REFORMER SYSTEM AND DESIGN FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES
The design of fuel processing hardware for methanol-powered fuel cell propulsion plants establishes new requirements for compactness and transient response. This paper examines system design issues for heterogeneous catalytic devices and describes experiments with a prototypical recirculating fuel processor that explores design parameters. Results indicate that current CuO-ZnO heterogeneous catalysts are heat transport limited across the reactant gas boundary layer. The pressurized, recirculation design is selected to meet the heating, transient, weight, volume, temperature, and startup requirements for future vehicular systems.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Presented at the 20th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, 18 August 1985.
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Corporate Authors:
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA United States 15096 -
Authors:
- Springer, T E
- Murray, H S
- Vanderbrough, N E
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1985-8
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 723-728
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Catalytic converters; Electric power; Electric power plants; Electric vehicles; Electrical systems; Fuel cells; Methanol; Propulsion; Transient analyzers; Vehicle design; Vehicle power plants
- Uncontrolled Terms: Propulsion systems; Transient response
- Old TRIS Terms: Recirculation
- Subject Areas: Design; Energy; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00459723
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
- Report/Paper Numbers: CONF-850808-
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 30 1986 12:00AM