For military mobile power and several civilian (transport, remote, or stationary with backup fuel) applications, dirty
liquid fuels must be transformed into a clean reformate that is compatible with current and evolving fuel
cell (e.g. PEM, SOFC) technologies. Altex, working together with Pennsylvania State University, has developed and
is testing diesel, JP-8 and NATO F-76 fuel reformers. Scales of these systems include personal use fuel cell systems
of 20 to 200 watts, Auxiliary power units of 2 to 10 kilowatt scale, and up to 500 kilowatt scale for large shipboard
type applications. These systems use unique sulfur removal and fuel transformation steps to maximize reformer and
fuel cell reliability. This can be accomplished even for fuels as heavy as NATO F-76, with fuel sulfur concentrations as
high as 10,000 ppm.
Through our several ongoing efforts, supported by Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, Army, Navy, Air Force and Department of Energy, Altex has the necessary breadth of fuels
processing expertise to create solutions for your specific application. These fuel processing
methods, primarily developed for fuel cell applications, can also be applied to other applications where fuel
upgrading is required.