In 1988, AEL was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract on Navy Topic N88-94 by the NAVSEA R&D Officer, Code 03R. In 1990, this topic moved to Phase II with a contract involving the lab demonstration of the use of diesel type fuel in high temperature molten carbonate or Direct Fuel Cells (DFCs). The Phase II work was successfully completed in 1992. In 1995, Navy Code ...
Starting with the known capability of DFC stacks to internally reform natural gas (CH4), the fuel vaporization and judicious breaking of the carbon bond in the more complex diesel type fuel molecule (represented typically as C7H14) was addressed. Free carbon could potentially load up the reformer passages and is thus to be avoided. Following careful testing of numerous sub scale vaporization, fuel conditioning and reforming techniques, the most appropriate thermochemical ...
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