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Thursday, October 30, 2008: 11:00 AM
101A-C
Samsung’s marketable portable fuelcell system development
In this year’s portable fuel cell model, fuel choice was even broadened, aside from attractive LPG fuel, the model could operate on Ethanol and other liquid fuels. This year’s development is more geared toward customer usability. Especially, safety feature is in practice and is ready to meet “portable fuel cell safety regulations” which is eminent to finalization. The internal power consumption toward reformer and fuel cell stack has been dramatically reduced. Also for pre-commercial version verification, intensive field test was performed on a camping car as well as extended long term durability test.
In this paper we’ve presented a state of the art portable LPG fuel cell system producing 200W power on average. The system utilizes commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and/or ethanol as fuel which is readily available from gas a station or a supermarket and are widely used for outdoor applications including yacht, camping car or portable generators. In the system, the fuel, LPG (and/or) ethanol and water are fed into the fuel processor through a patent pending gas/water supply system which doesn’t consume any parasitic power from the system saving 20% of power consumption through the BOP. The heat necessary for reforming is supplied by fuel oxidation via unique oxygen supplying system requiring little power consumption. The hydrogen rich reformed gas from the fuel processor is fed into a fuel cell stack after a gas clean-up process. The PEM stack shows very stable performance with minor humidification/water management complications.
The reforming system inside can start within 10 minutes and the system can start withdrawing power from the fuel cell stack within a few seconds. The system has gone through 2,000 hr extended operation, and demonstrated stable performance over scheduled and unscheduled on/off cycle. It also showed operability and storability at varying temperature conditions. The system is external battery hybrid and is capable of withdrawing power from the fuel cell and discharging to load simultaneously with very adaptable load follow up capability. Safety issue of the system has also been scrutinized and passed internal standards including measures against gas leakage and resistance against external shock. The emission from the system is well below any environmental regulations including THC, CO, Nox, and Sox. Samsung’s portable fuel cell system is literally at a marketable stage, The release of the system to the market is eminent and could be announced at the Fuel Cell Seminar 2008.
Portable fuel cell is broadening its market every year. In some cases, portable fuel cell systems, even with limited fuel infrastructure is gaining its market in high end applications. Samsung’s approach, as well as some other companies in this field, is to render comforts to users in terms of fuel handling and purchasing. As LPG is a very readily available fuel nationwide and worldwide, Samsung’s LPG based portable fuel cell system will allow users access to fuel cell to their daily lives with much ease.
In this year’s portable fuel cell model, fuel choice was even broadened, aside from attractive LPG fuel, the model could operate on Ethanol and other liquid fuels. This year’s development is more geared toward customer usability. Especially, safety feature is in practice and is ready to meet “portable fuel cell safety regulations” which is eminent to finalization. The internal power consumption toward reformer and fuel cell stack has been dramatically reduced. Also for pre-commercial version verification, intensive field test was performed on a camping car as well as extended long term durability test.
In this paper we’ve presented a state of the art portable LPG fuel cell system producing 200W power on average. The system utilizes commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and/or ethanol as fuel which is readily available from gas a station or a supermarket and are widely used for outdoor applications including yacht, camping car or portable generators. In the system, the fuel, LPG (and/or) ethanol and water are fed into the fuel processor through a patent pending gas/water supply system which doesn’t consume any parasitic power from the system saving 20% of power consumption through the BOP. The heat necessary for reforming is supplied by fuel oxidation via unique oxygen supplying system requiring little power consumption. The hydrogen rich reformed gas from the fuel processor is fed into a fuel cell stack after a gas clean-up process. The PEM stack shows very stable performance with minor humidification/water management complications.
The reforming system inside can start within 10 minutes and the system can start withdrawing power from the fuel cell stack within a few seconds. The system has gone through 2,000 hr extended operation, and demonstrated stable performance over scheduled and unscheduled on/off cycle. It also showed operability and storability at varying temperature conditions. The system is external battery hybrid and is capable of withdrawing power from the fuel cell and discharging to load simultaneously with very adaptable load follow up capability. Safety issue of the system has also been scrutinized and passed internal standards including measures against gas leakage and resistance against external shock. The emission from the system is well below any environmental regulations including THC, CO, Nox, and Sox. Samsung’s portable fuel cell system is literally at a marketable stage, The release of the system to the market is eminent and could be announced at the Fuel Cell Seminar 2008.