Connected evaluation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell with dehydrogenation reactor of liquid organic hydrogen carrier

Cited 20 time in webofscience Cited 14 time in scopus
  • Hit : 549
  • Download : 0
Recently, hydrogen energy technologies attract attention as power systems. To develop hydrogen energy systems, hydrogen storage methods with high storage density and good safety are required. Liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) is one of the novel hydrogen storage technologies. LOHC has advantages of high storage density, good safety, and easy handling. In this study, a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stack is operated with hydrogen released from LOHC to evaluate the feasibility of the connected operation of the PEMFC stack and LOHC dehydrogenation reactor. Dibenzyltoluene (H0-DBT) is used as a LOHC material, and the dehydrogenation of perhydro dibenzyltoluene (H18-DBT) is conducted at 240-300 degrees C. Released hydrogen is purified by adsorbent of activated carbon to remove impurities. However, 100-1400 ppm of methane is observed after the purification, and the PEMFC stack power is reduced from 39.4 W to 39.0 W during the operation by hydrogen dilution and physical adsorption of methane. Then, to evaluate the irreversible damage, pure hydrogen was supplied to the PEMFC stack. The stack power is recovered to 39.4 W. It is concluded that the connected operation of the LOHC dehydrogenation reactor and PEMFC stack is feasible, and the activated carbon adsorbent can be a cost-effective purification method for LOHC.
Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Issue Date
2020-05
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Citation

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, v.45, no.24, pp.13398 - 13405

ISSN
0360-3199
DOI
10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.02.129
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/274243
Appears in Collection
ME-Journal Papers(저널논문)
Files in This Item
There are no files associated with this item.
This item is cited by other documents in WoS
⊙ Detail Information in WoSⓡ Click to see webofscience_button
⊙ Cited 20 items in WoS Click to see citing articles in records_button

qr_code

  • mendeley

    citeulike


rss_1.0 rss_2.0 atom_1.0