Hydrogen/air Fuel cell vehicles have received a lot of attention lately as possible alternatives to internal combustion engines. Problems with on-board hydrogen storage and lack of a hydrogen infrastructure (e.g. one as widespread as gasoline), have been some of the major factors affecting their widespread use. On board fuel processors that generate hydrogen from on-board liquid methanol and other gasoline type hydrocarbons have been proposed as possible alternative sources of hydrogen needed by the fuel cell. This current paper focuses an a fuel processor that uses an auto-thermal reactor to generate the hydrogen from a gasoline-type fuel (iso-octane). The fuel processor model has been developed as a part of a larger indirect hydrocarbon fuel cell vehicle model by the fuel cell modeling program at the University of Califomia at Davis. The goal of this paper is to investigate the performance of the fuel processor from the viewpoint of energy efficiency and dynamic response. The impact of the drive cycles an the efficiency of the fuel processor are also presented and contrasted with the steady state efficiency predictions. The results illustrate the importance of accounting for interactions between the fuel processor and the rest of the fuel cell system when evaluating fuel processor performance.


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    Titel :

    On-board fuel processor for an indirect hydrocarbon fuel cell vehicle


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    On-board Brennstoff-Prozessor in einem Fahrzeug mit einer indirekten Hydrokarbonbrennstoffzelle


    Beteiligte:
    Ramaswamy, S. (Autor:in) / Sundaresan, M. (Autor:in) / Villa-Diniz, C. (Autor:in) / Moore, R.M. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2001


    Format / Umfang :

    10 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 10 Quellen


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Datenträger


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    On-board fuel processor for an indirect hydrocarbon fuel cell vehicle

    Ramaswamy,S. / Sundaresan,M. / Villa-Diniz,C. et al. | Kraftfahrwesen | 2001


    On-Board Fuel Processor for an Indirect Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Vehicle

    Ramaswamy, S. / Sundaresan, M. / Villa-Diniz, C. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001


    Fuel Processor for an Indirect Methanol Fuel Cell Vehicle

    Eggert, Anthony / Hauer, Karl-Heinz / Sundaresan, Meena et al. | SAE Technical Papers | 2000


    On-board Fuel Processor for an In direct Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Vehicle

    Ramaswamy, S. / European Electric Road Vehicle Association | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001


    Fuel processor for an indirect methanol fuel cell vehicle

    Ramaswamy,S. / Sundaresan,M. / Hauer,K.H. et al. | Kraftfahrwesen | 2000