A compact integrated fuel-processing system consisting of a plate-fin reformer (PFR) and a multi-stage preferential oxidation reactor is designed in this paper. The PFR, which was based on a plate-fin heat exchanger, is very compact, and reactant vaporization, methanol steam reforming and combustion are all integrated in it. Both internal plate-fins and external catalytic combustion were used to enhance heat transfer of the reformer, which offers both high methanol conversion ratio and low CO concentration, so that the water-gas shift reactor, which provides primary CO cleanup, is not necessary in this fuel-processing system. This will result in simplification of the fuel-processing system design and capital cost reduction. The performance of the main components in the fuel-processing system has been investigated. The axial temperatures of the different chambers in PFR were uniform, and the temperatures at the inlet and outlet of the PROX reactors were controlled strictly by plate-fin exchangers so that it could minimize parasitic hydrogen oxidation. In addition, the results indicated that this fuel-processing system can provide a high concentration of hydrogen and the system efficiency is always maintained above 75%. It is further demonstrated that the fuel-processing system could be operated autothermally and exhibited good test stability.


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    Title :

    A compact integrated fuel-processing system for proton exchange membrane fuel cells


    Additional title:

    Integrierte, Platz sparende Brennstoffaufbereitung für PEM-Brennstoffzellen


    Contributors:
    Pan, Liwei (author) / Wang, Shudong (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 26 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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