SOLID STATE ENERGY CONVERSION ALLIANCE DELPHI SOFC

Technical Report · Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/821425· OSTI ID:821425

Shaffer, Steven; Kelly, Sean; Mukerjee, Subhasish; Schumann, David; Mieney, H Skip

The objective of Phase I under this project is to develop a 5 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell power system for a range of fuels and applications. During Phase I, the following will be accomplished: Develop and demonstrate technology transfer efforts on a 5 kW stationary distributed power generation system that incorporates steam reforming of natural gas with piped-in water (Demonstration System A); and Initiate development of a 5 kW system for later mass-market automotive auxiliary power unit application, which will incorporate Catalytic Partial Oxidation (CPO) reforming of gasoline, with anode exhaust gas injected into an ultra-lean burn internal combustion engine. This technical progress report covers work performed by Delphi from July through December 2002 under Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement DE-FC-02NT41246 for the 5 kW mass-market automotive (gasoline) auxiliary power unit. This report highlights technical results of the work performed under the following tasks for the automotive 5 kW system: Task 1--System Design and Integration; Task 2--Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack Developments; Task 3--Reformer Developments; Task 4--Development of Balance of Plant (BOP) Components; Task 5--Manufacturing Development (Privately Funded); Task 6--System Fabrication; and Task 7--System Testing.

• Research Organization: Delphi Automotive Systems (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-02NT41246
• OSTI ID: 821425
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 9 Jun 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
ANODES
DESIGN
ENERGY CONVERSION
FABRICATION
FUEL CELLS
GASOLINE
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
NATURAL GAS
OXIDATION
OXIDES
POWER GENERATION
POWER SYSTEMS
SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS
STEAM
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER