Patrick B. Davis, JoAnn Milliken, William Cleary and Donna L. Ho Office of Transportation Technologies Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies U.S. Department of Energy
SECA Workshop February 14-15, 2001 Atlanta, Georgia
HYDROGEN HYDROGEN FUEL FUEL CELL CELL FUEL FUEL PROCESSOR PROCESSOR
H2- Rich Gas
the fuel cell: Storage and Infrastructure Issues Hydrogen can be derived from fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas, gasoline or FT fuels: Complexity, Cost, and Start-up Issues
q
Durability (hours)
80 78* 85*
15* 6* 30 <1
10
Cost ($/kW)
<0.5 10*
Air Fuel
Vaporize Preheat
)H<0
Reformer 700C
)H~0
Sulfur Removal
)H<0
Shifter 350-200C
)H<0 CO Removal
100-200C
Fuel Cell
80C
Water
350C
Heat
multiple steps.
Fuel
ATR Reactor Shift Reactor 1 Shift Reactor 2 PROX 1 Sulfur Removal
H2 - Rich Gas
Fuel Vaporizer
Heat xchange
control technology and high temperature operation combine to make the cost goal of $10/kW difficult.
o Fuel Gasoline may have to be tailored for the
H2
50 40 30 20 10 0 600 CH4 620 640 660 680 700 720 740 760 780 CO2 CO
Reactor Temperature, C
o Theoretical maximum hydrogen percentage = 66% o No performance degradation: 1700 hrs. on gasoline containing
1on
a nitrogen-free basis
Fuel Processing
l l l l l l l l
FY01: $7.6M
FY01: $21.5M
FY01: $12.4M
Nuvera
Argonne
Gasoline Or Alcohol
10% CO
2,000 ppm CO
<100 ppm CO
PREFERENTIAL OXIDIZER
H2
O2
FUEL CELL STACK
CO + H2O CO2 + H 2
H=
-9.7 kcal/mol
80.00
60.00
l l
%
40.00
=2.3
20.00
0.00 40 50 60
Power
Worlds First Demonstration of PEM Fuel Cell Power from Gasoline - <1kW Plug Power & Epyx (NUVERA) Demonstrate 10kW System on Multiple Fuels Including Gasoline, Methanol, and Ethanol IFC Demonstrates 50 kW, Automated System on Gasoline. Plug Power/NUVERA System Demonstrated.
reformers.
o A large part of our program focuses on reformate tolerant stacks,
H2
50 40 30 20 10 0 760
H2
Oxygen/Fuel = 8, Water/Fuel = 8
CO 2 CO CH4
780 800 820 840 860 880
Temperature, C
o o
Solution: liquid fuel injection Coke formation Solutions: catalyst, high temperature, excess water Would like to reduce the amount of water used Sulfur poisoning Solution: S-tolerant catalyst, scrubber High temperature sulfur removal is a potential issue Byproduct hydrocarbons Solution: catalyst selectivity, high temperature Solid Oxide reformer potentially 1/10th the size of a PEM reformer, except for sulfur removal issue