Mitigation of carbon formation during autothermal reforming of biodiesel for solid oxide fuel cell applications

ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-79

  Lin, J ^a   Walluk, M R ^a   Smith, D F ^a   Trabold, T A ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMOANALYSIS;

AUTOTHERMAL REFORMING; AUXILIARY POWER UNITS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GIBBS FREE ENERGY MINIMIZATION; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFCS); THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

BIODIESEL;

EID: 84892644744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FuelCell2012-91092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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