ECN is expanding its reforming research into fuel processing of utility fuels for mobile and stationary applications. A third field of applications is the semi-mobile use in Navy ships. Utility fuels Utility fuels include natural gas, propane, lpg, gasoline, kerosine, fuel oil and diesel. The common factor is, that they are easily obtained by companies and individual consumers, unlike hydrogen, methanol and ethanol for which no infrastructure exists. In the next decades this infrastructure will be built, but the costs are astronomic.
Nobody can afford to pay the price at once.
Therefore, a transition has to be done in stages. A fuel cell vehicle combines the high efficiencies and low pollution of electric vehicles with the convenience of ordinary liquid fuels. Fuel vaporizer 2. Partial oxidation reactor 3. Water-gas shift reactor 4.