Corner heating in rectangular solid oxide electrochemical cell generators

Patent · 31 December 1988

OSTI ID:866859

Reichner, Philip ^[1]

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1. Plum Boro, PA

Disclosed is an improvement in a solid oxide electrochemical cell generator 1 having a rectangular design with four sides that meet at corners, and containing multiplicity of electrically connected fuel cells 11, where a fuel gas is passed over one side of said cells and an oxygen containing gas is passed into said cells, and said fuel is burned to form heat, electricity, and an exhaust gas. The improvement comprises passing the exhaust gases over the multiplicity of cells 11 in such a way that more of the heat in said exhaust gases flows at the corners of the generator, such as through channels 19.

• Research Organization: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-80ET17089
• Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Patent Number(s): US 4808491
• OSTI ID: 866859
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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