Combustion-assisted hydrogen production in a high-temperature chemical reactor/heat exchanger for portable fuel cell applications

TRANSDUCERS 2003 - 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1734-1737

  Arana, L R ^a   Baertsch, C D ^a   Schmidt, R C ^a   Schmidt, M A ^a   Jensen, K F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Combustion; Fuel cells; Hydrogen; Inductors; Metallization; Microelectromechanical devices; Production; Silicon; Slabs

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMBUSTION; COUPLING AGENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; FUEL CELLS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; HYDROGEN; METALLIZING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROSYSTEMS; PRODUCTION; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

DEEP REACTIVE ION ETCHING; ELECTRICAL POWER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PORTABLE FUEL CELLS; SILANE COUPLING AGENT; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SLABS; SUSTAINED COMBUSTION;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84944733535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1217120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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