Hawaii Energy and Environmental Technologies (HEET) Initiative
Abstract
This report covers efforts by the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii under the ONR-funded HEET Initiative that addresses critical technology needs for exploration/utilization of seabed methane hydrates and development/testing of advanced fuel cells and fuel cell systems. Methane hydrates work included: hydrate thermochemistry and kinetics; environmental impacts of methane release from seafloor hydrates; hydrate engineering applications; and international collaborative R&D. For fuel cells accomplishments included: test stand and infrastructure upgrades to the Hawaii Fuel Cell Test Facility; work on understanding the S02 contamination mechanism and S02 contamination recovery; preliminary testing of Protonex H2/air stacks under pure oxygen in support of NUWC; and fuel contamination efforts via a Modelica model which worked with previous experimental results of CO poisoning. Fuel processing and purification work included testing of a reverse-vortex-flow non-thermal plasma reactor to study methane reforming. Further work was also carried out with novel fuel cell concepts including biocarbons and bio-fuel cells.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA527756
Entities
People
- Bor Yann Liaw
- Keith Bethune
- Kevin Davies
- Maheboob Virji
- Michael J. Antal Jr.
- Michael J. Cooney
- Richard E. Rocheleau
- Stephen M. Masutani
Organizations
- University of Hawaiʻi System