TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meissner, Jan
AU  - Pasel, Joachim
AU  - Peters, Ralf
AU  - Samsun, Remzi Can
AU  - Thimm, Franziska
AU  - Stolten, Detlef
TI  - Quantitative Analysis of Sub-ppm Traces of Hydrocarbons in the Product Gas from Diesel Reforming
JO  - International journal of hydrogen energy
VL  - 44
IS  - 8
SN  - 0360-3199
CY  - New York, NY [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2018-06023
SP  - 4020 - 4030
PY  - 2019
AB  - The autothermal reforming of middle distillates is a favored reforming technique for fuel cell-based auxiliary power units (APUs) in the transport sector. The efforts made in recent years to produce a high quality reformate have been reflected in a variety of improvements to the reactors and mode of operation of the fuel processing systems. By these means, the concentrations of contaminants, especially traces of hydrocarbons in the gas phase, frequently drops below the previous detection limit. In this paper, a new GC/MS method is developed to reduce the detection limit of the analytics into the sub-ppm range. This work is intended to serve as a valuable step to showing which traces of hydrocarbons can still be qualitatively and quantitatively expected in a high quality reformate. This contribution may help determine the multitude of hydrocarbonous substances that can have a detrimental long-term effect on catalysts and adsorbents in a fuel cell-based APU system operated with middle distillates.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000458224700002
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.12.175
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/856658
ER  -