Towards mass production of microstructured fuel processors for application in future distributed energy generation systems: A review of recent progress at IMM

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-18

  O'Connell, M ^a   Kolb, G ^a   Schelhaas, K P ^a   Wichert, M ^a   Tiemann, D ^a   Pennemann, H ^a   Zapf, R ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fuel processing; Mass production; Microreactors

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY POWER UNITS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES; FUEL PROCESSING; FUEL PROCESSORS; HEAT MANAGEMENT; HYDROGEN SOURCES; HYDROGEN SUPPLY; LIMITED SPACE; MASS PRODUCTION; MICRO REACTOR; MICROSTRUCTURED REACTORS; PORTABLE POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS; RECENT PROGRESS; RENEWABLE FUELS; SCALE-UP; SMALL SCALE; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN; MACHINE TOOLS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

AUXILIARY POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 83555178534     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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