Thermally enhanced, compact reformer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 252 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(00)80053-x

✦ Synopsis

The patent describes an apparatus for collecting electrical current from individual fuel cell stacks in a solid oxide fuel cell. The current collectors are protected from oxidation through advantageous placement in non-oxidising surroundings.

The patent also describes fuel cell module configurations employing and taking advantage of this current collecting apparatus.