Hydrocarbon autothermal performing program annual report [electronic resource].

Published: Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Management, 1980.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description: Pages: 79 : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Management and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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A goal of the national molten carbonate fuel cells program is to develop the capability to use heavy fuel oil or coal liquids as feed stock for fuel cell power plants. These liquid fuels must be reformed to gaseous fuels which are composed mainly of CO, H/sub 2/, CO/sub 2/, and H/sub 2/O (and N/sub 2/) for use by the fuel cell. The goal of this program is to understand the mechanism for the formation of soot under conditions relevant to autothermal reformers and to translate this understanding to recommendations for modification of autothermal design. This goal is to be accomplished by a combination of experimental and theoretical tasks. The experimental tasks are to study the mechanisms of soot formation under controlled conditions with gaseous fuels, O/sub 2/ and H/sub 2/O, both premixed, and with well-described mixing, with and without catalysts. The theoretical tasks will develop models to describe the experimental data first by detailed chemical and fluid mechanical processes, second by quasiequilibrium models, and finally by scaling laws. These scaling laws will then be utilized in recommending reformer design modifications. The first year's work of the two year program is described. (WHK)

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E 1.99:doe/mc/12734-t1
E 1.99: tr-235
tr-235
doe/mc/12734-t1

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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/01/1980.
"doe/mc/12734-t1"
" tr-235"
Hwang, H.S.; Lewis, P.F.; Kothandaraman, G.; Pugh, E.; Lord, G.; Yarrington, R.

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AC21-79MC12734

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