Apparatus for generating a gas which may be used for startup and shutdown of a fuel cell [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.38 Electronics, communications engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: Medium: ED : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 255901
• Chủ đề: 1. 30 direct energy conversion; 2. 42 engineering

Tóm tắt

 The present invention provides a gas generator that may be used for startup and shutdown of a fuel cell. In one non-limiting embodiment, the gas generator may include a nitrogen generator structured to receive air, extract oxygen (O2) from the air and discharge the balance in the form of a nitrogen-rich gas
  a merging chamber structured to receive a hydrocarbon fuel and the nitrogen-rich gas and to discharge a feed mixture containing both the hydrocarbon fuel and the nitrogen-rich gas
  and a catalytic reactor structured to receive the feed mixture and to catalytically convert the feed mixture into a reducing gas.