Fuel Cell Integration - A Study of the Impacts of Gas Quality and Impurities: Milestone Completion Report

This report is a review of the recent literature exploring the issues of integrating fuel cells with various sources of fuel gas, with particular attention to the fuel-processing step of a fuel cell system. A brief discussion of the available fuel cell technologies is presented highlighting the tolerances of fuel cell systems to impurities in the fuel gases. For a more comprehensive descriptionof fuel cell systems, please consult the Fuel Cell Handbook (5th edition, 2000). This report also outlines a description of several sources of fuels and their compositions followed by a discussion how these fuel sources might be integrated with fuel cell systems for distributed and centralized power production.