Conventional proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems suffer from requiring high purity hydrogen, necessitating a costly on-board hydrogen storage tank to be incorporated into the overall system design. One method to overcome this barrier is to use an on-board reforming system fueled by some sort of hydrocarbon. Unfortunately though, most fuel reforming processes generate significant amounts of impurities, such as CO and CO2, requiring a costly and complex upfront reforming system that is unwieldy for a practical system. High temperature PEM fuel cells based on acid doped polybenzimidazole (PBI), are capable of operating on lower quality reformed hydrogen, allowing for a simplified on-board fuel reforming system design to be envisioned. Advances in high temperature PEM fuel cells have progressed to the point where they are now a commercially viable technology. However, there remains a lack of published literature on the performance of HT-PEMFCs operating on common reformate effluent compositions consisting primarily of H2, CO, CO2, and N2. In this work, the performance of PBI-based HT-PEMFCs are evaluated under simulated reformate compositions.
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ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology collocated with the ASME 2015 Power Conference, the ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, and the ASME 2015 Nuclear Forum
June 28–July 2, 2015
San Diego, California, USA
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- Advanced Energy Systems Division
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978-0-7918-5661-1
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Performance of a High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (HT-PEMFC) Operating on Simulated Reformate
Michael G. Waller,
Michael G. Waller
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Mark R. Walluk,
Mark R. Walluk
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Thomas A. Trabold
Thomas A. Trabold
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Michael G. Waller
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Mark R. Walluk
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Thomas A. Trabold
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Paper No:
FUELCELL2015-49562, V001T04A004; 6 pages
Published Online:
October 27, 2015
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Waller, MG, Walluk, MR, & Trabold, TA. "Performance of a High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (HT-PEMFC) Operating on Simulated Reformate." Proceedings of the ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology collocated with the ASME 2015 Power Conference, the ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, and the ASME 2015 Nuclear Forum. ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. San Diego, California, USA. June 28–July 2, 2015. V001T04A004. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/FUELCELL2015-49562
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