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The effects of halides on the performance of coal gas-fueled molten carbonate fuel cells: Final report, October 1986-October 1987

Description: This report presents the results of a program to determine the probable tolerable limits of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride present in the fuel and oxidant streams of molten carbonate fuel cells that are operating on gasified coal. A literature survey and thermodynamic analyses were performed to determine the likely effects of halides on cell performance and materials. Based on the results of these studies, accelerated corrosion experiments and electrode half-cell performance tests were… more
Date: October 1, 1987
Creator: Magee, T. P.; Kunz, H. R.; Krasij, M. & Cote, H. A.
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Generating technology assessment. Phase I work plan, Task 1 report

Description: A plan of work outlining information to assess electric generating technologies is presented. Projections are made of realistic and understandable engineering and cost assessments of nonnuclear electrical generating technologies. A computer-based method of producing such engineering and cost estimates for use by EIA's Coal and Electric Power Analysis Division is to be developed and implemented. Technologies and processes to be assessed are: all nonnuclear conventional and nonconventional (coal … more
Date: October 15, 1979
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Cell and stack design alternatives. Second quarterly report, November 1, 1978-January 31, 1979

Description: Progress on a program to develop commercially viable phosphoric acid fuel cell driven on-site integration energy systems is presented. A mass and energy balance was completed for one operating point of a selected power generation sub-system with a power output of 119 kW. Potentially, 87% of the LHV of the input fuel is available as bus bar electricity or useful heat. A 2 kW stack of conventional design and a 0.5 kW DIGAS cooled stack have been constructed and are on test at ERC. Renovation of a… more
Date: February 14, 1979
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Assessment of deposition for power-plant molten-carbonate fuel cells

Description: Particulate deposition in molten carbonate fuel cell anodes is addressed for operation with future coal gasification power plants. Power plant systems factors affecting deposition are explored such as gas cleanup requirements for particulate removal and gasifier product gas composition differences for various gasifier types and operational modes (air blown versus oxygen blown). Effects of fuel cell characteristics (including average cell current density and fuel utilization) on anode deposition… more
Date: March 15, 1982
Creator: Wenglarz, R. A.
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Feasibility study: fuel cell cogeneration in a water pollution control facility. Final report

Description: A conceptual design study was conducted to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of a cogeneration fuel cell power plant operating in a large water pollution control facility. In this particular application, the fuel cell power plant would use methane-rich digester gas from the water pollution control facility as a fuel feedstock to provide electrical and thermal energy. Several design configurations were evaluated. These configurations were comprised of combinations of options for… more
Date: February 1, 1980
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Feasibility study: fuel cell cogeneration in a water pollution control facility. Final report

Description: A conceptual design study was conducted to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of a cogeneration fuel cell power plant operating in a large water pollution control facility. The fuel cell power plant would use methane-rich digester gas from the water pollution control facility as a fuel feedstock to provide electrical and thermal energy. Several design configurations were evaluated. These configurations were comprised of combinations of options for locating the fuel cell power pl… more
Date: February 1, 1980
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DoD Climate Change Fuel Cell Program

Description: A grant was awarded to PPL EnergyPlus, LLC for two (2) 250kW Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells at Pepperidge Farm, Inc. on 9/30/03. Pepperidge Farm subsequently signed a contract for one 250kW fuel cell. A request was made and granted to apply the award for the second fuel cell to the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers (see attached email). This report discusses the first year of operation of a fuel cell power plant located at Pepperidge Farm, Inc., Bloomfield, Connecticut and a fuel cell power plant l… more
Date: April 30, 2007
Creator: Gabrielle, Steven A.
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Relation between component technical parameters and fuel cell power plant characteristics. Final technical report

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of applied technology improvements on fuel cell power plant operational and cost characteristics. The results of this evaluation are intended to identify to DOE those areas which will provide the most significant payoff for long range research and development activities. The study is focused on the phosphoric acid fuel cell and investigates both small multi-kilowatt on-site power plants as well as large multi-megawatt systems intended for dis… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Levy, A. & Dine, L.V.
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Results of FY 1979 project appraisal. Appendix A: fuel cells worksheets

Description: Worksheets are presented to show the project appraisal of each of the three technologies (phosphoric acid fuel cells, molten carbonate fuel cells, and thermionic converters) and the market penetration of the technologies in their respective market areas. In the case of the phosphoric acid fuel cell, there are two market areas which were analyzed. Those market areas coincided with the two sizes of phosphoric acid systems that are expected to be produced (4.8 MW module and the 40 kW module). The … more
Date: March 1, 1979
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SALT (System Analysis Language Translater): A steady state and dynamic systems code

Description: SALT (System Analysis Language Translater) is a lumped parameter approach to system analysis which is totally modular. The modules are all precompiled and only the main program, which is generated by SALT, needs to be compiled for each unique system configuration. This is a departure from other lumped parameter codes where all models are written by MACROS and then compiled for each unique configuration, usually after all of the models are lumped together and sorted to eliminate undetermined var… more
Date: January 1, 1983
Creator: Berry, G. & Geyer, H.
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Program plan for molten carbonate fuel-cell systems development

Description: The purpose of this document is to describe in both programmatic and technical terms the methodology that the US Department of Energy will use to commercialize a molten carbonate fuel cell power plant. Responsibility for the planning and management of the program resides in the molten carbonate fuel cell program office at the Argonne National Laboratory which reports to the Assistant Director for Fuel Cells in the Division of Fossil Fuel utilization of DOE/FE. The actual development of technolo… more
Date: October 27, 1978
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Advanced power systems featuring a closely coupled catalytic gasification carbonate fuel cell plant

Description: Pursuing the key national goal of clean and efficient uulization of the abundant domestic coal resources for power generation, a study was conducted with DOE/METC support to evaluate the potential of integrated gasification/carbonate fuel cell power generation systems. By closely coupling the fuel cell with the operation of a catalytic gasifier, the advantages of both the catalytic gasification and the high efficiency fuel cell complement each other, resulting in a power plant system with unsur… more
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Steinfeld, G. & Wilson, W.G.
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Potential use of dry cooling in support of advanced energy generation systems

Description: Advanced energy technologies were investigated for filling the energy supply and demand gap, including fuel cells, thermionic converters, and fusion. Technologies that have the potential for supplying energy in the future are solar, geothermal, coal gasification and liquefaction, clean solid fuel from coal, and oil shale. Results are presented of an analysis of the advanced energy generation systems, the potential for using dry cooling, and the waste heat generation characteristics of the advan… more
Date: September 1, 1979
Creator: Mayer, D. W.; Arnold, E. M. & Allemann, R. T.
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Workshop on power conditioning for alternative energy technologies. Executive summary

Description: As various alternative energy technologies such as photovoltaics, wind, fuel cells, and batteries are emerging as potential sources of energy for the future, the need arises for development of suitable power-conditioning systems to interface these sources to their respective loads. Since most of these sources produce dc electricity and most electrical loads require ac, an important component of the required power-conditioning units is a dc-to-ac inverter. The discussions deal with the developme… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Smith, D. R.
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Development of internal reforming carbonate fuel cell stack technology

Description: Activities under this contract focused on the development of a coal-fueled carbonate fuel cell system design and the stack technology consistent with the system design. The overall contract effort was divided into three phases. The first phase, completed in January 1988, provided carbonate fuel cell component scale-up from the 1ft{sup 2} size to the commercial 4ft{sup 2} size. The second phase of the program provided the coal-fueled carbonate fuel cell system (CGCFC) conceptual design and carri… more
Date: October 1, 1990
Creator: Farooque, M.
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Hydrogen/halogen energy storage system: safety, performance, and cost assessment. Final report

Description: The aim of this work was to make realistic assessments of the safety, performance, and installation costs of an electrochemically regenerative H/sub 2//Cl/sub 2/ energy storage system based on detailed engineering designs of plant configurations. Extensive laboratory tests in FY 1976, 1977, and 1978 provided the needed theoretical and experimental data for this study. The effectiveness of this scheme of energy storage required practical confirmation. In this assessment particular care was taken… more
Date: February 1, 1979
Creator: Spaziante, P.M.; Sioli, G.C. & Trotta, R.
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Task 1. 0, Development of improved molten carbonate fuel cell

Description: The overall objective of this task was to develop an improved cell configuration for molten carbonate fuel cells which has improved performance, meets a 40,000 hour projected life, maintains existing cell cost, and is adaptable to a range of power plant applications. A new cell configuration designed to be manufactured using conventional and available equipment and processes was developed and verified in subscale single cells. This cell configuration is adaptable to a broad range of fuels witho… more
Date: October 1, 1990
Creator: Johnson, W.H.
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Cell and stack design alternatives. Second quarterly report, November 1, 1978-January 31, 1979

Description: Work on the design of an on-site fuel cell total energy system for an apartment building is described. A mass and energy balance was completed for one operating point of a selected power generation sub-system with a power output of 119 kW. Potentially, 87 percent of the LHV of the input fuel is available as bus bar electricity or useful heat. A 2 kW stack of conventional design and a 0.5 kW DIGAS cooled stack have been constructed and are on test at ERC. Renovation of a space for the Westinghou… more
Date: February 14, 1979
Creator: Hoover, D. Q.
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An update of ERC's carbonate fuel cell development program

Description: Energy Research Corporation's molten carbonate fuel goals are commericalization of the MW-class natural gas units and 100 MW-class coal gas/natural gas dual fuel units (long-term). Accomplishments have been made in stack height scale-up, issues relevant to attaining a long useful life for the carbonate fuel cell have been resolved, and organizational and financial aspects of power plant demonstration have been addressed. 10 figs, 7 refs. (DLC)
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Farooque, M.; Bernard, R.; Doyon, J.; Paetsch, L.; Patel, P.; Skok, A. et al.
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40-kW field test power plant modification and development. Monthly technical status report No. 13, September 16, 1978-October 15, 1978

Description: The contract objective is to complete the design and development actions that upgrade the 40-kW fuel cell power plant to a configuration suitable for on-site demonstration testing. The modifications will improve operating capability, durability and maintenance interval and lead to reduced production costs. Equipment to recover and use the by-product heat of electric generation will be available on the power plant for field verification of on-site heat recovery. The 40-kW power plant will be com… more
Date: November 10, 1978
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Cell and stack design alternatives. First quarterly report, August 1, 1978-October 31, 1978

Description: An apartment house in Albany, New York with HUD minimum insulation was selected as the application to be used in evaluating various system configurations of on-site fuel cell total energy systems. Methods for calculating the static and dynamic thermal loads for a simulated season were developed. Computer models of some major subsystems are now being developed. Finite element models of the electrochemistry, thermodynamics and heat transfer relationships for fuel cells were developed and have bee… more
Date: January 1, 1979
Creator: Hoover, D.Q.
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Advanced water-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell development

Description: This program was conducted to improve the performance and minimize the cost of existing water-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell stacks for electric utility and on-site applications. The goals for the electric utility stack technology were a power density of at least 175 watts per square foot over a 40,000-hour useful life and a projected one-of-a-kind, full-scale manufactured cost of less than $400 per kilowatt. The program adapted the existing on-site Configuration-B cell design to electric uti… more
Date: September 1, 1992
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