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DOI	10.2172/460291
报告编号	CONF-961107--Absts.
来源ID	OSTI_ID: 460291
	Fuel cell transit bus development & commercialization programs at Gerogetown University
	Wimmer, R.; Larkins, J.; Romano, S. [Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC (United States)]
英文摘要	Fourteen years ago, Georgetown University (GU) perceived the need for a clean, efficient power systems for transportation that could operate on non-petroleum based fuels. The transit bus application was selected to begin system development. GU recognized the range and recharge constraints of a pure battery powered transit bus. A Fuel Cell power system would circumvent these limitations and, with an on board reformer, accommodate liquid fuel for rapid refueling. Feasibility studies for Fuel Cell power systems for transit buses were conducted with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1983. Successful results of this investigation resulted in the DOT/DOE Fuel Cell transit bus development program. The first task was to prove that small Fuel Cell power plants were possible. This was achieved with the Phase I development of two 25 kW Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (PAFC) brassboard systems. A liquid cooled version was selected for the Phase II activity in which three 30-foot Fuel Cell powered Test Bed Buses (TBBs) were fabricated. The first of these TBBs was delivered in the spring of 1994. All three of these development vehicles are now in Phase III of the program to conduct testing and evaluation, is conducting operational testing of the buses. The test will involve two fuel cell-operated buses; one with a proton exchange fuel cell and the other with a phosphoric acid fuel cell.
出版年	1996
报告类型	Technical Report
语种	英语
国家	美国
来源学科分类	30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION ; 33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS ; FUEL CELLS ; PERFORMANCE TESTING ; BUSES ; COMMERCIALIZATION ; FEASIBILITY STUDIES ; PHOSPHORIC ACID ; MEMBRANES ; AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT ; ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES
URL	http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/460291
资源类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/266968
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wimmer, R.,Larkins, J.,Romano, S. [Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC . Fuel cell transit bus development & commercialization programs at Gerogetown University,1996.