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Methanol Steam Reforming for Hydrogen Production
Recent years have seen an enormous amount of funding directed toward fuel cell research and development based
on different fuel sources and fuel cell types. The number of small and large companies that are seriously working on fuel cell development is incredible, as seen in the roster maintained by Fuel Cell Today online.1 One of the most popular fuels in these endeavors is methanol, whether used directly or preprocessed by reforming, partial oxidation, or decomposition. This review is intended to give the reader a broad look at the research and development activities being undertaken by groups from universities, government laboratories, nonprofits, small businesses, and large industrial interests. As would be expected in a research area of this type, where intellectual property is paramount, many of the details and much of the activity are not reflected in the open literature. We have sought to bring together the available published research activities along with what can be found of the ongoing industrial development effortsswhich are,
understandably, harder to come by.
The number of publications, conference presentations, and patents dealing with methanol steam reforming has grown tremendously in recent years. The rapid increase in publications from about 1998 reflects the recent emphasis on fuel cell research undertaken by academics, government labs, and industry, and parallels the drastic increase in publications and conferences dealing with fuel cells, including the incorporation of fuel cell symposia within larger professional meetings of the AIChE, ACS, ASM, ECS,IECEC, IMRET, and others.
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