Development of a portable hydrogen generator system

The purpose of this study is to develop a portable hydrogen generator system. The system has three main components, a reactor vessel, a water supply and a control system. The hydrogen is generated from water molecules reacting with activated aluminum particles. 1 [l] of hydrogen can be obtained form 1 [g] of the activated aluminum particles and 1 [ml] of water. We designed the control system to determine the quantity of water poured into the reactor vessel in order to generate the desired quantity of hydrogen. The supplied quantity of water and the pressure in the reactor vessel were chosen as the input and output of the control system, respectively. The developed hydrogen generator was connected to a FC with a constant load. The experimental results showed that the output of FC was maintained virtually constant. Therefore, it is confirmed that the proposed system is useful as a hydrogen generator.