Title:
MULTI-STACK FUEL BATTERY GENERATION PLANT AND FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS6391966
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
The fuel cell stacks in a multi-stack power plant are provided with hydrogen-enriched fuel in serial fashion with the fuel outlet (110; 112; 206; 208) of one or more stacks forming the fuel inlet for a subsequent stack in the series. The fuel can be initially fed into the series via two or more stacks in parallel with the outlets of the parallel stacks being combined and fed serially into the subsequent stacks. Alternatively, the fuel can be fed through stacks which are arranged in a simple series, one stack after another. Fueling the stacks in either aforesaid manner ensures that each cell in the stack will receive an adequate amount of fuel for proper functioning and allows for significant relaxing of cell manufacturing tolerances and resulting economics.
Inventors:
KATZ MURRAY (US)
Application Number:
JP24571187A
Publication Date:
April 22, 1988
Filing Date:
September 29, 1987
Export Citation:
Assignee:
INT FUEL CELLS CORP
International Classes:
H01M8/00; H01M8/04; H01M8/24; (IPC1-7): H01M8/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Akashi Masatake
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