Navy fuel cell demonstration project.

Black, Billy D. ; Akhil, Abbas Ali

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Power Generation;    30 Direct Energy Conversion;    Recommendations;    Capitalized Cost;    Sandia National Laboratories;   

DOI  :  10.2172/940519
RP-ID  :  SAND2008-5300
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  940519

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This is the final report on a field evaluation by the Department of the Navy of twenty 5-kW PEM fuel cells carried out during 2004 and 2005 at five Navy sites located in New York, California, and Hawaii. The key objective of the effort was to obtain an engineering assessment of their military applications. Particular issues of interest were fuel cell cost, performance, reliability, and the readiness of commercial fuel cells for use as a standalone (grid-independent) power option. Two corollary objectives of the demonstration were to promote technological advances and to improve fuel performance and reliability. From a cost perspective, the capital cost of PEM fuel cells at this stage of their development is high compared to other power generation technologies. Sandia National Laboratories technical recommendation to the Navy is to remain involved in evaluating successive generations of this technology, particularly in locations with greater environmental extremes, and it encourages their increased use by the Navy.