Title :
Installing a fuel cell on an existing power system
Author :
Kornblit, M.J. ; Spitznagel, K.A.
Author_Institution :
General Electric Co., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The authors review the application, installation, and start-up of a 200 kW natural gas fuel cell on an existing health care-facility power system. The unit applied had an overall efficiency, including thermal utilization, calculated at 85%. It is concluded that the fuel cell is a viable technology, suitable for institutional power system application. It can generate high-quality electricity in an environmentally safe, efficient manner, requiring minimum supervision
Keywords :
fuel; fuel cell power plants; fuel cells; health care; installation; power systems; 200 kW; 85 percent; application; electricity; fuel cell; health care; installation; natural gas; power supply quality; power system; start-up; thermal utilization; Batteries; Combustion; Fuel cells; Fuel economy; Natural gas; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power industry; Power system economics; Power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1993., Conference Record of the 1993 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1462-X
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.1993.299149
