Argonne fuel cell

Michael Krumpelt, Ph.D., Manager, Fuel Cell Technology, Argonne National Laboratory Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society (Section 27, Energy Resources, Conversion, and Utilization)... 

Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, Siid-Chemie Sign Agreement to Accelerate Fuel Cell Development. Argonne National Laboratory Press Release (28 November 2000). 

R. Kumar, S.Ahmed, M. Krumpelt, and K. M. Myles, Reformers for the Production of Hydrogen from Methanol and Alternative Fuels for Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles, Argonne National Laboratory Report ANL-92/31 (1992). 

Dow and Argonne were also involved in the joint development of technology related to fuel cells. Although the technology associated with the project was successful, Dow made a business decision to exit the fuel cell business and so the project was never completed. 

Fig. 6M High-temperature solid-oxide (HTSO) fuel cell. The monolithic design, by Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne National Laboratory has developed a POX reformer suitable for use in vehicles. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports work on POX systems for on-board fuel processors for fuel cell vehicles through the Office of Transportation Technologies Fuel Cell Program.17... 

Hydrogen fuel cells have become an international competition. The liquid fuel reformer that has been worked on at Los Alamos and the Argonne National Labs is a fuel-flexible processor which can reform gasoline, natural gas, methanol, or ethanol at the control of a switch. This would allow the use of the existing fuel infrastructure. But, the approach forces the use of a more complicated, heavier system. 

Phase II Demonstration and delivery of a high efficiency reformate tolerant 7-kWf,gt fuel cell stack and power plant utilizing molded bipolar plates and natural gas fuel processor to Argonne National Laboratory for independent testing and verification. 

Hardware delivery of 50 kW PEM fuel cell stack system to Argonne National Laboratory Accomplishments... 

Deliver 50 kW net PEM fuel cell stack system brassboard to Argonne National Laboratory at the conclusion of the project (07/02). 

Incorporate MEAs into two short stack fuel cells built by General Motors and deliver to Argonne National Laboratory fortesting and evaluation. 

H.K. Geyer et. al. GCtool for Fuel Cells System Design and Analysis User Documentation , Argonne National Laboratory, 1998, Report ANL-98/8. 

Ahluwalia, R.K., X. Wang and R. Kumar (2007) V.A.l Fuel Cell Systems Analysis , Argonne National Laboratory, in DOF s 2007 Annual Progress Report. 

These types of models are used routinely by fuel cell developers, and have become an indispensable tool for system engineers. The accuracy of the basic thermodynamic models is quite good, but because the fuel cell sub-models are typically lumped parameter models or simply look-up tables, their accuracy depends heavily on model parameters that have been developed and validated for relevant situations. Aspen Plus is described below as an example, followed by a description of GCTools, an Argonne National Laboratory modeling set that offers an alternative to codes from the commercial software industry. 

Argonne National Laboratory developed the General Computational Toolkit (GCTool) specifically for designing, analyzing, and comparing fuel cell systems and other power plant... 

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