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The Catacel Advantage
Founded in 2001, Catacel is a Northeast Ohio-based company that designs and manufactures catalytic heat-exchanging materials that enable breakthroughs in production and energy efficiency. Catacel technology enables high performance devices that are smaller, lighter, lower cost and/or more energy efficient than alternative solutions. This technology also allows standard designs to achieve higher production rates. Catacel solutions are geared toward the fuel cell, hydrogen, gas-to-liquid and aerospace industries.
Fuel Cell Solutions
Catacel’s solutions for the fuel cell industry include catalytic and heat-exchanging devices, tightly integrated reformer and combustor/reformer packages, CPOx reforming, anode tail gas combustion, coated inserts for micro-channel and other purpose-designed reactors.
Catacel catalytic materials are custom-developed for the application and are typically integrated directly in customers’ OEM fuel cell systems. Catacel also provides materials in facilitating packages, a prime example of which is the HEP® heat exchange platform.
Product Highlight – HEP® Heat Exchange Platform
Catacel's HEP® is a lightweight, high-temperature, low-cost heat exchanger that can be easily configured to work as a reactor. Its key benefits include:
- Heat transfer up to 2.5 kW per module
- Easily bundled for greater heat exchange or reactor capabilities
- Readily customized through foil inserts
- Becomes a reactor by depositing catalysts
A variety of insert corrugation geometries can be used in the HEP® modules to tailor the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics to specific needs without resorting to significant and costly custom engineering. Catalytic coatings can be applied to the inserts to enable the HEP® to work as a reactor as well as a heat exchanger.
Product Highlight – SSR® Stackable Structural Reactor
The Catacel SSR® is a drop-in replacement for the loose ceramic catalyst media in the stationary steam reforming process that has been used for many years to produce hydrogen from natural gas. Current technology requires that the ceramic catalyst bed be replaced every three to five years due to mechanical degradation of the media.
The SSR® will eliminate the periodic replacement that is required for ceramic packed beds. Because it has significantly higher heat transfer, SSR® can provide a considerable capacity increase from any reformer that has been upgraded with this technology. Alternatively, the higher heat transfer of SSR® can enable lower furnace temperatures with consequent energy savings and extended tube life. |
