INCAPE 05401
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN CATALISIS Y PETROQUIMICA "ING. JOSE MIGUEL PARERA"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Preface
Autor/es:
L.M. CORNAGLIA AND E.A. LOMBARDO
Revista:
TOPICS IN CATALYSIS
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Año: 2008 vol. 51 p. 1 - 1
ISSN:
1022-5528
Resumen:
Fuel cells are the most efficient devices to convert chemical energy in electricity. Among them, the most developed ones are the low temperature PEM cells that have been in use for several decades. Their technology is far from being optimized but is continually developing at good pace. Today, the main obstacle to reach the widespread use of fuel cells, both in mobile and stationary applications, is the availability of ultrapure hydrogen at competitive prices. The required gas should contain less than 10 ppm of carbon monoxide which poisons the noble metal based cell electrodes currently in use. An updated complete coverage of this subject would require several issues of Topics in Catalysis. For just one volume, we have chosen contributions from ten different countries around the world. These contributions address the production of H2 from oxygenates and natural gas, two purification steps, the use of membrane reactors and the decomposition of methane.
