摘要:
It has heretofore been practiced upon the occurrence of abnormalities on the equipment to make tentative conditioned operation disregarding abnormalities on the assumption that the abnormalities shall be coped with by servicemen. Thus, troubles having insignificant contents of abnormality could not be readily coped with by a simple method. There are provided a fuel cell 21, a fuel gas supplying unit 22 , an oxidizer gas supplying unit 34, a state detecting unit 42 of detecting the temperature of the fuel gas supplying unit 22, an operation controlling unit 47 of detecting abnormalities of predetermined functions performed by the fuel gas supplying unit 22 utilizing the results detected by the state detecting unit 42 and performing operation control in an operation mode corresponding to the contents of abnormalities, and an operation mode switching unit 44 of switching to an operation mode corresponding to the contents of abnormalities.
摘要:
A stable and high reliability fuel cell electricity-generating device capable of generating electricity even in the case of sudden drop of load power is provided. The fuel cell electricity-generating device comprises a fuel cell of generating electric power from a fuel and an oxidizer, a fuel processor of producing a fuel to be supplied into the fuel cell 1 from an electricity-generating material, a combustion device of combusting a residual fuel gas unconsumed in the fuel cell to raise the temperature of the fuel processor, and a electric power generation instructing means of determining the electric power generated by the fuel cell, wherein when the electric power generation instructing means decreases the electric power generated by the fuel cell depending on the decrease of load power to be supplied, the rate at which the generated electric power is decreased is made different depending on the change of the temperature of the fuel processor.
摘要:
A hydrogen generating part is provided for reacting water and a raw material composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms to generate hydrogen gas, a raw material supply part is provided for supplying a raw material to the hydrogen generating part, a water supply part is provided for supplying water to the hydrogen generating part, a catalyst combustion part is provided, an air supply part is provided for supplying air to the catalyst combustion part, a path switching part is provided for switching raw material supply paths between the raw material supply part and the hydrogen generating part, a bypass path is provided for supplying a raw material to the catalyst combustion part from the path switching part, and a combustion gas path is provided for supplying combustion gas after the catalyst combustion part to the hydrogen generating part. The control part switches the path switching part, and the inside of the hydrogen generating part is replaced with combustion gas after the catalyst combustion part.
摘要:
To avoidpressure variation in a cooling water channel, extend a life of an ion exchange resin used to maintain quality of cooling water and reduce power consumption by auxiliary machinery at low cost. There is provided a polymer electrolyte fuel cell 11, a cooling water tank 12, a cooling water channel 13, a cooling water pump 14, a heat exchanger 15, a fuel-side condenser 16 and an air-side condenser 17 that cool exhaust fuel gas and exhaust oxidizer gas discharged from the fuel cell 11 to condense content water vapor, a condensed water tank 18 that stores the water condensed in the fuel-side condenser 16 and the air-side condenser 17, a water supply channel 20 having a water supply pump 19 for feeding the condensed water to the cooling water tank 12, and a water discharge channel 21 for the cooling water tank 12.
摘要:
To provide a fuel cell power generator capable of reliably recognizing ignition and misfire of a burner for heating a fuel gas generator and operating safely, a fuel cell power generator comprising, a fuel gas generator for generating a fuel gas composed mainly of hydrogen from a raw material for power generation and water, a water feeder for feeding water to the fuel gas generator, and a fuel cell for performing power generation using the fuel gas and oxidant gas is provided with: a burner for heating the fuel gas generator by combusting at least one combustion fuel selected from the group consisting of the raw material for power generation, the fuel gas, and an off-gas discharged from a fuel cell; and a flame detector for detecting the state of a flame formed in the burner.
摘要:
Problems of acceleration of drying of electrolyte membrane and local reaction, etc. can be properly coped with to attain the stabilization of performance of fuel cell. There are provided a fuel cell 121 which generates electric power from a fuel gas and an oxidizing agent gas, a fuel gas feed pipe 161 and a first switch valve 129 as fuel gas supplying unit which supplies the said fuel gas into the said fuel cell on the anode side thereof, an oxidizing gas supplying pipe 162 and a second cut-off valve 131 as oxidizing agent gas supplying unit which supplies the said oxidizing agent into the said fuel cell on the cathode side thereof, a raw material gas supplying pipe 151 and a third switch valve 143 as raw material gas supplying unit which supplies raw material of the said fuel gas into the fuel cell and a control portion 127 which controls the supply of the said fuel gas, the supply of the said oxidizing agent and the supply of the said raw material and the control portion 127 controls during the starting of electricity generation of the fuel cell 121 such that the said raw material gas supplying unit purges the fuel cell 121 at least on the cathode side thereof with the said raw material gas before the oxidizing agent gas supplying unit and the fuel gas supplying unit supply the fuel gas and the said oxidizing agent gas into the fuel cell 121, respectively.
摘要:
The deterioration of the catalyst can occur during prolonged storage, occasionally causing the deterioration of the durability of the fuel cell. There are provided a stack 38 which generates electric power from a fuel gas and an oxidizing agent, a fuel gas pipe 37 and an on-off valve 49 as fuel gas supplying unit of supplying the fuel gas into the fuel cell on the anode side thereof, an oxidizing agent supplying unit an oxidizing agent gas pipe 40a and an on-off valve 57 as oxidizing agent gas supplying unit of supplying the oxidizing agent into the fuel cell on the cathode side thereof, a raw material gas pipe 33, a bypass pipe 55 and dispensing valves 56, 60 as raw material gas supplying unit of supplying the raw material of the fuel gas into the fuel cell and a control portion 44 of controlling the supply of the fuel gas, the supply of the oxidizing agent and the supply of the raw material, wherein after the switching-off of the output of electric power of the fuel cell, the fuel gas supplying unit suspends the supply of the fuel gas into the fuel cell on the anode side thereof, the oxidizing agent gas supplying unit suspends the supply of the oxidizing agent into the fuel cell on the cathode side thereof and the raw material gas supplying unit supplies the raw material into the fuel cell from the inlet side of the cathode to purge the fuel cell on the cathode side thereof.
摘要:
To provide a fuel cell cogeneration system which allows the rise of the temperature of cooling water and thus takes little time to start even when the difference in temperature between stored hot water and cooling water is small. A fuel cell cogeneration system comprising a fuel cell 11, a cooling water heat exchanger 13 provided on a cooling water pathway 16, a stored hot water pathway 15 through which stored hot water that exchanges heat with cooling water flows, a stored hot water tank 31, a stored hot water controlling means 33, a stored hot water temperature measuring means 36, a stored hot water flow rate adjusting means 38, a flow rate controlling means 37 of controlling the stored hot water flow rate adjusting means 38 and an exhaust gas heat exchanger 23 of exchanging heat between exhaust gas from fuel processing means 21,22 and stored hot water, wherein the flow rate controlling means 37 controls the stored hot water adjusting means 38 to reduce the flow rate of stored hot water flowing through the stored hot water pathway 15 when the temperature of stored hot water is a first predetermined temperature or less during the starting of operation of the fuel cell 11.