Design concepts of a scaled-down autothermal membrane reformer for on board hydrogen production

We conclude that such a nonadiabatic autothermal system can operate at efficiencies of ∼66% and expected power density of 0.5 kW/L at maximum MSR temperature of 700 °C, when feeding the MSR reactor with liquid H2O instead of pre-vaporizing it. This represents significant improvement over previous designs, and is currently tested experimentally.