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Title: System for adding sulfur to a fuel cell stack system for improved fuel cell stability

Abstract

A system for adding sulfur to a reformate stream feeding a fuel cell stack, having a sulfur source for providing sulfur to the reformate stream and a metering device in fluid connection with the sulfur source and the reformate stream. The metering device injects sulfur from the sulfur source to the reformate stream at a predetermined rate, thereby providing a conditioned reformate stream to the fuel cell stack. The system provides a conditioned reformate stream having a predetermined sulfur concentration that gives an acceptable balance of minimal drop in initial power with the desired maximum stability of operation over prolonged periods for the fuel cell stack.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1092978
Patent Number(s):
8,507,131
Application Number:
13/357,774
Assignee:
Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, MI)
DOE Contract Number:  
FC26-02NT41246
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION

Citation Formats

Mukerjee, Subhasish, Haltiner, Jr., Karl J, and Weissman, Jeffrey G. System for adding sulfur to a fuel cell stack system for improved fuel cell stability. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
Mukerjee, Subhasish, Haltiner, Jr., Karl J, & Weissman, Jeffrey G. System for adding sulfur to a fuel cell stack system for improved fuel cell stability. United States.
Mukerjee, Subhasish, Haltiner, Jr., Karl J, and Weissman, Jeffrey G. 2013. "System for adding sulfur to a fuel cell stack system for improved fuel cell stability". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1092978.
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abstractNote = {A system for adding sulfur to a reformate stream feeding a fuel cell stack, having a sulfur source for providing sulfur to the reformate stream and a metering device in fluid connection with the sulfur source and the reformate stream. The metering device injects sulfur from the sulfur source to the reformate stream at a predetermined rate, thereby providing a conditioned reformate stream to the fuel cell stack. The system provides a conditioned reformate stream having a predetermined sulfur concentration that gives an acceptable balance of minimal drop in initial power with the desired maximum stability of operation over prolonged periods for the fuel cell stack.},
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year = {Tue Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
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Solid oxide fuel cell
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Apparatus for Generating a Gas Which May Be Used for Startup and Shutdown of a Fuel Cell
patent-application, March 2011


Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Interaction of Carbon and Sulfur with Solid Oxide fuel Cell Anodes
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