A combined methanol autothermal steam reforming and PEM fuel cell pilot plant unit: Experimental and simulation studies

Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1733-1743

  Ouzounidou, Martha ^a   Ipsakis, Dimitris ^a,b   Voutetakis, Spyros ^a   Papadopoulou, Simira ^a,c   Seferlis, Panos ^b  

^a Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydrogen production; Integrated systems; Methanol autothermal steam reforming; Modeling; PEM fuel cell; Preferential oxidation of CO

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GAS PRODUCERS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTEGRATED OPTICS; METHANOL; OXIDATION; PILOT PLANTS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); STEAM; STEAM ENGINEERING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AUTO-THERMAL; AUTOTHERMAL REFORMING; CO CONCENTRATIONS; EFFLUENT STREAMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; METHANOL CONVERSION; MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PEM FUEL CELL; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS; PREFERENTIAL OXIDATION OF CO; PREFERENTIAL OXIDATION REACTORS; REACTION TEMPERATURE; REFORMING TEMPERATURES; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STEAM REFORMING; STEAM REFORMING OF METHANOL; THEORETICAL POINTS; THREE TEMPERATURE; VOLTAGE-CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

ELECTROLYTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUEL CELL; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; METHANOL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 69349101029     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.06.031     Document Type: Article

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