Integrating a Bio-Reformer

The goal in this case is to manufacture a modular unit capable of producing pure hydrogen onsite from local feedstocks. The ETI HFRS unit can then be paired with the ETI Tactical Fuel Cell® or with other vendor fuel cells. This combination makes fuel cells more practical for deployed military applications or for remote sites such as pipeline telemetry or telecommunications ground stations, where supplying fossil fuels to traditional engine-generators is impractical or too costly.

Bio-Reforming Technology Proven Design

This technology has been successfully demonstrated in the laboratory as a continuous reactor to reform liquid hydrocarbon fuels like methanol and ethanol to hydrogen. It has also demonstrated the uses of municipal solid waste (MSW) and biomass to produce hydrogen in a batch reactor.