Hawaii Energy and Environmental Technologies (HEET) Initiative

Abstract : This report covers efforts by the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii under the ONR-funded HEET Initiative that addresses critical technology needs for exploration/utilization of seabed methane hydrates and development/testing of advanced fuel cells and fuel cell systems. Methane hydrates work included: hydrate thermochemistry and kinetics; environmental impacts of methane release from seafloor hydrates; hydrate engineering applications; and international collaborative RD work on understanding the S02 contamination mechanism and S02 contamination recovery; preliminary testing of Protonex H2/air stacks under pure oxygen in support of NUWC; and fuel contamination efforts via a Modelica model which worked with previous experimental results of CO poisoning. Fuel processing and purification work included testing of a reverse-vortex-flow non-thermal plasma reactor to study methane reforming. Further work was also carried out with novel fuel cell concepts including biocarbons and bio-fuel cells.

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