FUEL CELL POWER PLANTS FOR TRANSPORTATION APPPLICATIONS

Over the past 35 years, the transportation sector has accounted for approximately 25% of the total gross energy consumption in the United States. As the largest energy user, the transportation accounts for approximately 66% of the country's current petroleum consumption. Fuel cell power plants using nonpetroleum fuels such as methanol could significantly reduce US dependency on petroleum resources. They offer the additional advantage of minimal air pollution thereby addressing another issues of major concern in the US. Fuel cell power plant use in city buses and other vehicles is being explored in a number of US Department of Energy and industrial programs that are described in this paper.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Annual battery conference on applications (7th), Long Beach, CA, 21-23 Jan 1992. Sponsored by the Department of Energy.
• Corporate Authors:

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  P.O. Box 1663
  Los Alamos, NM  United States  87545
• Authors:
  • Huff, J R
• Publication Date: 1991

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Alcohol fuels; Alternate fuels; Economics; Electric power plants; Energy consumption; Fuel cells; Methanol; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Methanol as fuel
• Old TRIS Terms: Power plant economics; Power plant selection; Transportation sector
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00627848
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: LA-UR-91-3900, CONF-920151-2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 22 1993 12:00AM