Heat and fuel coupled operation of a high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell with a heat exchanger methanol steam reformer

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2017

Autores

G. Schuller (Autor) Outra; F.Vidal Vázquez (Autor) Outra; W. Waiblinger (Autor) Outra; S. Auvinen (Autor) Outra; P. Ribeirinha (Autor) FEUP

Revista

Título: Journal of Power Sources

Vol. 347

Páginas: 47-56

ISSN: 0378-7753

Editora: Elsevier

Indexação

ISI Web of Science

Scopus

INSPEC

Projetos Associados

BeingEnergy - Integrated low temperature methanol steam reforming and high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.02.02

Abstract (EN): In this work a methanol steam reforming (MSR) reactor has been operated thermally coupled to a high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack (HT-PEMFC) utilizing its waste heat. The operating temperature of the coupled system was 180 degrees C which is significantly lower than the conventional operating temperature of the MSR process which is around 250 degrees C. A newly designed heat exchanger reformer has been developed by VTT (Technical Research Center of Finland LTD) and was equipped with commercially available CuOgnO/Al2O3 (BASF RP-60) catalyst. The liquid cooled, 165 cm(2), 12-cell stack used for the measurements was supplied by Serenergy A/S. The off-heat from the electrochemical fuel cell reaction was transferred to the reforming reactor using triethylene glycol (TEG) as heat transfer fluid. The system was operated up to 0.4 A cm(-2) generating an electrical power output of 427 W-e1. A total stack waste heat utilization of 86.4% was achieved. It has been shown that it is possible to transfer sufficient heat from the fuel cell stack to the liquid circuit in order to provide the needed amount for vaporizing and reforming of the methanol-water-mixture. Furthermore a set of recommendations is given for future system design considerations.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 10