Invention Application
US20120094197A1 HUMIDIFIER FOR FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM USING THE SAME AS AUXILIARY HUMIDIFIER
有权
用于燃料电池和燃料电池系统的湿度计使用其作为辅助增湿器
- Patent Title: HUMIDIFIER FOR FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM USING THE SAME AS AUXILIARY HUMIDIFIER
- Patent Title (中): 用于燃料电池和燃料电池系统的湿度计使用其作为辅助增湿器
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Application No.: US13014102Application Date: 2011-01-26
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Publication No.: US20120094197A1Publication Date: 2012-04-19
- Inventor: Haeng Jin Ko , Young Bum Kum , Young Woo Noh , Yun Seok Kim
- Applicant: Haeng Jin Ko , Young Bum Kum , Young Woo Noh , Yun Seok Kim
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
- Current Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Priority: KR10-2010-0100066 20101014
- Main IPC: H01M8/06
- IPC: H01M8/06

Abstract:
The present invention provides a humidifier, which is used as an auxiliary humidifier of a fuel cell together with an existing gas-to-gas humidifier to improve humidification performance in a low efficiency region of the gas-to-gas humidifier, thus increasing the output of the fuel cell and providing high efficiency operation. Particularly, the humidifier comprises: an inlet assembly provided in an air exhaust pipe, through which water-supersaturated exhaust gas is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to supply water condensed from the exhaust gas to the fuel cell stack; an outlet assembly provided in an air supply pipe, through which a reactant gas to be humidified and supplied to the fuel cell stack passes, to supply the water transferred through a pumping pipe to the air supply pipe such that the reactant gas is humidified; and a pumping pipe including a porous material disposed therein and electrodes for applying a voltage to both ends of the porous material and disposed between the inlet assembly and the outlet assembly such that the water is transferred through a capillary path in the porous material with a pumping force by electroosmosis when the electrodes apply a voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US08541139B2 Humidifier including an auxiliary humidifier utilzing electroosmosis Public/Granted day:2013-09-24
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