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Deployed on a commercial airplane, proton exchange membrane fuel cells may offer emissions reductions, thermal efficiency gains, and enable locating the power near the point of use. This work seeks to understand whether on-board fuel cell systems are technically feasible, and, if so, if they offer a performance advantage for the airplane as a whole. Through hardware analysis and thermodynamic and electrical simulation, we found that while adding a fuel cell system using today's technology for the PEM fuel cell and hydrogen storage is technically feasible, it will not likely give the airplane a performance benefit. However, when we re-did the analysis using DOE-target technology for the PEM fuel cell and hydrogen storage, we found that the fuel cell system would provide a performance benefit to the airplane (i.e., it can save the airplane some fuel), depending on the way it is configured.
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| Authors: |
Curgus, Dita Brigitte;
Munoz-Ramos, Karina (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM);
Pratt, Joseph William;
Akhil, Abbas Ali (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM);
Klebanoff, Leonard E.;
Schenkman, Benjamin L. (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)
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| Publication Date: | 2011 May 01 |
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| OSTI Identifier: | 1018476 |
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| Report Number(s): | SAND2011-3119 |
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| DOE Contract Number: | AC04-94AL85000 |
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| Resource Type: | Technical Report |
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| Research Org: | Sandia National Laboratories |
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| Sponsoring Org: | USDOE |
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| Country of Publication: | United States |
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| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Size: 121 p. |
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| Other Number(s): | TRN: US201114%%158 |
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| Subject: | 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 08 HYDROGEN; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN STORAGE; PERFORMANCE; POWER GENERATION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS; SIMULATION; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMODYNAMICS |
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| Update Date: | 2011 Aug 04 |
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