Fuel cell electric power production
- Livingston, NJ
- Frenchtown, NJ
- Westfield, NJ
A process for generating electricity from a fuel cell includes generating a hydrogen-rich gas as the fuel for the fuel cell by treating a hydrocarbon feed, which may be a normally liquid feed, in an autothermal reformer utilizing a first monolithic catalyst zone having palladium and platinum catalytic components therein and a second, platinum group metal steam reforming catalyst. Air is used as the oxidant in the hydrocarbon reforming zone and a low oxygen to carbon ratio is maintained to control the amount of dilution of the hydrogen-rich gas with nitrogen of the air without sustaining an insupportable amount of carbon deposition on the catalyst. Anode vent gas may be utilized as the fuel to preheat the inlet stream to the reformer. The fuel cell and the reformer are preferably operated at elevated pressures, up to about a pressure of 150 psia for the fuel cell.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-79ET15383
- Assignee:
- Engelhard Corporation (Iselin, NJ)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4522894
- OSTI ID:
- 865478
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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