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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6749958 | Integrated module for solid oxide fuel cell systems An integrated module includes an afterburner, heat exchanger and fuel processor. The module is thermally integrated solid oxide fuel cell. ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6746515 | Method and apparatus for thermal swing adsorption and thermally-enhanced pressure swing adsorption The present invention provides compact adsorption systems that are capable of rapid temperature swings and rapid cycling. Novel methods of thermal swing adsorption and thermally-enhanced pressure swing adsorption are also described. In some aspects of the invention,... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6743537 | Hydrogen gas generating systems, fuel cell systems and methods for stopping operation of fuel cell system In a system for generating hydrogen gas by reforming raw material, steam is continuously supplied while the supply of raw material and air to a reforming unit is stopped, so as to purge residual flammable material within the system with steam such that even if oxyge... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6740435 | System and method for preparing fuel for fuel processing system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell for reacting a hydrogen rich gas; a fuel processor system for converting a hydrocarbon fuel-steam mixture into said hydrogen rich gas; and a system for preparing the hydrocarbon fuel-steam mixture which includes (a) structure ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6737180 | Electrochemical conversion system An electrochemical conversion system (70) is disclosed having a tubular housing (71), a thermal inertial core (72), and a tubular hydrogen electrochemical cell (79) which in combination define a first chamber (73) and a second cham... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6737184 | Chemical hydride hydrogen generation system and an energy system incorporating the same A chemical hydride hydrogen generation system and an energy system incorporating the same are provided. The hydrogen generation system has: a storage means for storing a chemical hydride solutions; a reactor containing a catalyst; and a pump for supplying the chemic... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6737183 | Humidification device for polymeric membrane fuel cells A humidification device for polymeric membrane fuel cell stacks fed with gaseous reactants is disclosed. The gases supplied to the stack are previously fed in admixture with a stream of liquid water to a chamber filled with a reticulated material, whose highly subdi... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6727011 | Fuel cell system and method of operating fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that supplies an oxidizer containing oxygen to a positive electrode, supplies a fuel gas containing hydrogen to a negative electrode and generates power, a battery containing at least water as an electrolyte, a hydrogen tank t... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6727012 | Method and apparatus for generating hydrogen inside of a fuel cell An apparatus for generating hydrogen inside of a fuel cell is provided. The fuel cell comprises an anode having at least one inlet and optionally one outlet and, a cathode having at least one inlet and optionally one outlet. An electrolyte is disposed between the an... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6727014 | Fuel cell reactant and cooling flow fields integrated into a single separator plate A fuel cell having a novel configuration including a segmented gas diffusion medium (GDM) or a non-segmented GDM and a separator plate, in which the reactant flow field and liquid coolant field are integrated into one side of a single plate element. The separator pl... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6709778 | Electrochemical conversion system An electrochemical conversion system (70) is disclosed having a housing divided by a hydrogen electrochemical cell (79) so as to define a first chamber (73) and a second chamber (74). A first mass of hydride material (90) is contai... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6703151 | Compact precooler In a near ambient pressure operated auto-thermal reformer fuel gas system, a precooler between the auto-thermal reformer and shift converter. The precooler includes a spraying water inlet, an inlet for the reformed gas and a packing of high surface area m... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6699608 | Method and apparatus for humidifying a gas flow and to a method for using such a device A method and apparatus for humidifying a gas flow includes means for atomizing a liquid into a gas feed line and means for heating the liquid. The atomizing means is provided in a spray chamber, with a heat-exchanger region for at least partially evaporat... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6696188 | Device for evaporating and/or overheating a hydrocarbon in a fuel cell A device is used to evaporate and/or superheat a hydrocarbon or a hydrocarbon/water mixture for a gas generation system of a fuel cell installation. The hydrocarbon or the hydrocarbon/water mixture flows through a medium-side region of a heat exchanger, w... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6692545 | Combined water gas shift reactor/carbon dioxide adsorber for use in a fuel cell system An apparatus removes CO from a hydrogen-rich gas stream in a hydrogen fuel cell system. CO fouls costly catalytic particles in the membrane electrode assemblies. Both a catalyst adapted to perform a water gas shift reaction, and a carbon dioxide adsorbent... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6692852 | Generating system for a fuel cell, and heat waste recirculating and cooling system of said generating system This invention is related to a generating system for a fuel cell, and heat waste recirculating and cooling system of said generating system, comprising: a water tank for temporarily storing hot water generated by the fuel cell, a heat exchanger in thermal... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6692853 | Recovery system of heat energy in a fuel cell system A fuel cell system 1 comprises a fuel cell stack 10, an evaporator 21, a reforming device 22, a supercharger 23, an offgas heating device 24, and a catalytic combustion chamber 25. Offgas exhausted from the fuel cell stack 10 is burnt in the catalytic com... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6686078 | Method of reformer operation to prevent fuel cell flooding The present invention provides a method for regulating a supply of reformate to a fuel cell in which the method includes receiving exhaust oxidant from the fuel cell, combining the exhaust oxidant and fuel to form reformate, and providing the reformate to... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6682838 | Integrated fuel processor, fuel cell stack, and tail gas oxidizer with carbon dioxide removal An illustrative method for converting hydrocarbon fuel to hydrogen rich gas, includes the steps of: reacting the hydrocarbon fuel with steam in the presence of reforming catalyst and a carbon dioxide fixing material to produce a first hydrogen gas; and re... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6670062 | Methods and systems for humidifying fuel for use in fuel processors and fuel cell systems A method for humidifying a mixture of dry fuel and air for use in a fuel processor may include receiving a mixture of dry fuel and air at a first temperature such as ambient temperature, heating the mixture of dry fuel and air to a second temperature grea... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6670059 | Fuel cell system having flow-diverting element A fuel cell system includes a gas generation device for the catalytic steam reforming of a steam/fuel mixture and/or for the partial oxidation of an oxygen/fuel mixture for generating a hydrogen-rich medium and a gas cleaning stage for removing carbon mon... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6667122 | Fuel cell system having a heat exchanger A fuel cell system includes (1) a heat exchanger for preheating a fuel/water mixture; (2) an evaporator unit for generating a starting-material gas flow from the preheated fuel/water mixture; (3) a gas generation unit for producing a hydrogen-rich gas con... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6660417 | Fuel cell generator The objective of the present invention is to improve the system efficiency of the fuel cell generator that generates hydrogen by electrolyzing water and generates electricity using the generated hydrogen. For this purpose, a fuel cell generator, which inc... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6656621 | Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack comprises a power-generating cell and a cooling cell which are stacked, an insulating means for electrically insulating the cooling medium supplied into the cooling cell from the power-generating cell, and a conducting means for electric... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6656620 | Humidification system for a fuel cell The humidification system for humidifying a fuel cell of the present invention comprises: a water-permeable-type humidifier for humidifying reaction gas used in reaction with moisture in exhaust gas exhausted after the reaction; and an adjuster for adjust... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6653006 | System for fuel cell reformer start-up The invention includes a start-up system for providing fuel and water as an emulsion to the reformer of a fuel cell and for starting a fuel cell powered vehicle.... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6649290 | Fuel cell thermal management system and method This application relates to a system and method for regulating the temperature of a self-contained fuel cell apparatus preferably comprising a fuel reformer. The invention maintains the various components of the fuel cell apparatus within preferred operat... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6649291 | Method for driving a fuel cell vehicle and fuel cell vehicle A fuel is supplied to a reformer provided with a hydrogen-permeable separation membrane for selectively allowing hydrogen to pass through to generate hydrogen. The generated hydrogen is supplied to a fuel cell, and a drive unit is operated by electric pow... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645652 | Fuel cell electric power generation system A fuel cell electric power generation system includes an electric power generation subsystem, a fuel processing subsystem including a furnace, an oxidant subsystem, a water circulation subsystem, and a temperature control subsystem. Interactions between t... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6641944 | Fuel cell drive system High temperature reducing gas is supplied to a reforming catalyst (51) of a reformer (13) and a CO removal catalyst (52) of a CO removal device (15) from a start-up combustor (11). By supplying the high temperature reducing gas from the start-up combustor... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6638655 | Fuel cell system The invention provides a fuel cell system that is free from troubles due to contaminant ions by controlling the concentration of contaminant ions in cooling water. The fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell stack and a means for controlling the cell tempe... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6638653 | Fuel cell system To provide the fuel cell system, which can prevents the imperfect combustion of the fuel gas in combustor caused by shortage of the air exhausted from the fuel cell so that the harmful components is not contained in the exhausted gas, and can prevents the... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6635371 | Fuel cell system Disclosed is a fuel cell system comprising a fuel tank 11 for storing fuel; an evaporator 12 for evaporating the fuel to generate fuel gas; a reforming reactor 13 for generating reforming gas containing hydrogen from the fuel gas; a combustor 14 for burni... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6630648 | Device for dispensing of hydrogen A device for dispensing hydrogen, in particular for supplying gaseous hydrogen for a fuel cell, has a reservoir, a gas connection for removing hydrogen from the reservoir and at least one heating device with which the reservoir is heatable for dispensing ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6630264 | Solid oxide fuel cell process gas sampling for analysis A method for monitoring process gas of a solid oxide fuel cell system is disclosed. The method comprises directing a portion of process gas from a chamber of the solid oxide fuel cell system to a main plenum chamber. A portion of process gas is cooled to ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6630260 | Water vapor transfer device for a fuel cell power plant A fuel cell system that extracts water from the effluent of a fuel cell for supply to other components of the fuel cell system that require water. A preferred embodiment is a fuel cell system, for the production of electricity from hydrogen gas and an oxi... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6627340 | Fuel cell hydrogen supply systems using secondary fuel to release stored hydrogen Hydrogen propelled fuel cell vehicle system designs that reduce the relative cost of releasing hydrogen from hydrogen storage alloys by providing and/or utilizing secondary sources of heat to supply the heat of desorption of stored hydrogen. The secondary... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6620537 | Hydrocarbon fueled hydrogen fuel generator system and apparatus in combination with hydrogen fuel cells A hydrocarbon fueled hydrogen generator and hydrogen fueled electric power generating system and apparatus comprising hydrocarbon fuel and oxidizer delivery and mixing apparatus, ignition and combustion apparatus igniting the mixture of fuel and oxidizer,... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6620536 | Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell with a cathode space and an anode space that are separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane. The cathode space is supplied with an oxygen-containing gas, and the anode space is supplied with a hydrogen-containing g... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6617067 | Fuel evaporator In a fuel evaporator provided with an evaporation chamber 11 that produces raw fuel gas FG by vaporizing raw fuel liquid by heat received from a plurality of heat medium tubes 12 through which a high temperature heat medium passes, a raw fuel injection po... | 09/09/2003 |
