Reforming stack development. Technical status report, November 1985

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5577327

This preliminary design control document will serve as a guide in the development of an internal reforming molten carbonate fuel cell power plant. In particular, it will serve as a control document in the design and development of internal reforming fuel cell stacks. The approach in preparing this document is to first define the reference application for the power plant, and then work downwards from plant description to dc power section design, stack design, and finally the individual cell component specifications. Cost goals will be defined for the total plant investment and single cell package. A dispersed generator in the range of 2 to 5 MW size range, has been selected as the reference application. The basis of this selection is an attractive market size and a reasonable power plant size for initial demonstration of the technology. The design on which this power plant is based is described in EPRI reports: EM-3307 and EM-4179. The study focuses on a 6500 Btu/kWh dispersed generator for electric utility application. This relatively simple system led to a high efficiency, reasonably priced power plant as described in detail in the EPRI reports. The proposed system design for the present DOE project incorporates some further improvements developed by ERC, including the addition of a shift reactor and a hydrogen transfer device. More details of this new design are given. 14 figs.

• Research Organization: Energy Research Corp., Danbury, CT (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC21-76ET11304
• OSTI ID: 5577327
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/11304-T15; ON: DE86013225
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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FUEL CELL POWER PLANTS
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DESULFURIZATION
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN TRANSFER
NATURAL GAS
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REFORMER PROCESSES
SHIFT PROCESSES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
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FOSSIL FUELS
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NONMETALS
POWER PLANTS
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