Design projects from ethanol

Caternillar Onerates PEM Fuel Cell stack on Ethanol Reformate Caterpillar, Nuvera Fuel Cells, and Williams Bio-Energy have teamed to develop and demonstrate a 15-kW ethanol-fueled PEM fuel cell system. The primary technical objectives of this project are to demonstrate performance, durability and reliability and to understand correlations and reduce gaps between stationary and transportation PEM fuel cell applications. Power module design specifications have been completed. The reformer has been tested for a short period of time (45 minutes) on ethanol at rated power, and 45- and 80-cell stacks have been successfully tested with output from the reformer. 

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