Fuel cells show great promise as an efficient, nonpolluting vehicular power source that can operate on nonpetroleum fuel. As with other power sources, design tradeoffs can be made that either improve vehicle performance or reduce the size and cost of the fuel cell power system. To evaluate some of these tradeoffs, a number of phosphoric acid fuel cell power plant designs have been studied to determine the performance level they would provide, both for a compact passenger vehicle and a 40-ft city bus. The fuel is steam reformed methanol. The analyses indicate that 1978 fuel cell technology can provide a 22 to 50% improvement in fuel economy over the 1980 EPA estimate for the conventionally powered General Motors X car. With this technology the city bus can meet the DOT acceleration, gradability, and top speed requirements. A reasonable advance in fuel cell technology improves performance and fuel consumption of both vehicles substantially. (ERA citation 81:025670)


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    Title :

    Design Considerations for Vehicular Fuel Cell Power Plants


    Contributors:
    D. K. Lynn (author) / J. B. McCormick (author) / R. E. Bobbett (author) / S. inivasan (author) / J. R. Huff (author)

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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