Porous coolant tube holder for fuel cell stack

Patent · Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6369626

Guthrie, R J

A coolant tube holder for a stack of fuel cells is a gas porous sheet of fibrous material adapted to be sandwiched between a cell electrode and a nonporous, gas impervious flat plate which separates adjacent cells. The porous holder has channels in one surface with coolant tubes disposed therein for carrying coolant through the stack. The gas impervious plate is preferably bonded to the opposite surface of the holder, and the channel depth is the full thickness of the holder.

• Assignee: United Technologies Corp
• Patent Number(s): US 4245009
• OSTI ID: 6369626
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 29 Oct 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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