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dc.contributor.authorNeogi, Bhaskar
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T01:46:34Z
dc.date.available2015-12-10T01:46:34Z
dc.date.issued2002-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/6289
dc.descriptionThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Remote Area Program was created to evaluate the possible use of fuel cells and diesel reformers in residential and off-grid applications. Diesel was chose because an infrastructure already exits in rural communities. The UAF Energy Center demonstrated the use of a reformer to convert kerosene into hydrogen, which was used in a Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell to power an AC load. In the summer of 1999, UAF hosted an Energy conference. At the conference Northwest Power (reformer manufacturer) indicated a diesel reformer efficiency of 65% while Plug Power promised a system efficiency (reformer, fuel cell and inverter) of 40%. After extensive experiments, the Energy Center found the current design reformer efficiency to be 30% and the system efficiency to be 15% at best. This efficiency does not compare favorably to the currently available diesel generator efficiency of 33%.en_US
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dc.titleSteam reformation of diesel fuelsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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