Fuel cell power plant fuel processing apparatus
    11.
    发明授权
    Fuel cell power plant fuel processing apparatus 失效
    燃料电池燃料处理装置

    公开(公告)号:US5516344A

    公开(公告)日:1996-05-14

    申请号:US818933

    申请日:1992-01-10

    IPC分类号: B01J8/06 H01M8/06 B01J8/04

    CPC分类号: H01M8/0631 B01J8/062

    摘要: The integrated apparatus includes within a single vessel a plurality of components for processing fuel in a fuel cell plant. Along with the gas reformer is an air preheater for the burner and a plenum for supplying the shift converter. The shift converter is also in the vessel with upstream steam and fuel heat exchangers. The shift converter heat exchanger is also included.

    摘要翻译: 集成装置在单个容器内包括用于在燃料电池装置中处理燃料的多个部件。 与气体重整器一起是用于燃烧器的空气预热器和用于供应变换器的增压室。 变速器也在具有上游蒸汽和燃料热交换器的容器中。 还包括换档换热器。

    Reformer seal plate
    12.
    发明授权
    Reformer seal plate 失效
    重整密封板

    公开(公告)号:US5264008A

    公开(公告)日:1993-11-23

    申请号:US772758

    申请日:1991-10-07

    摘要: A seal plate within a gas fixed reformer divides an upper plenum and a lower plenum to force combustion products along the heat exchange surface of the reactors. The seal plate has a sealed horizontal central portion and a vertical perpendicular portion extending to the bottom of the shell. The entire seal plate is exposed to gas in the discharge plenum, whereby differential expansion of various seal plate portions is avoided.

    摘要翻译: 气体固定重整器内的密封板将上部气室和下部气室分开,以迫使沿着反应器的热交换表面的燃烧产物。 密封板具有密封的水平中心部分和延伸到壳体的底部的垂直垂直部分。 整个密封板暴露于排放气室中的气体,从而避免了各种密封板部分的不同膨胀。

    Shift converter
    13.
    发明授权
    Shift converter 失效
    移位转换器

    公开(公告)号:US06306354B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-23

    申请号:US08651160

    申请日:1996-05-17

    IPC分类号: F28D704

    摘要: A fuel cell power plant, generally, has a fuel cell stack for electrochemically converting a hydrocarbon fuel into electricity. In order for the hydrocarbon fuel to be used by the fuel cell stack, it must be steam reformed into a hydrogen-rich process gas. This process gas has a carbon monoxide level that would be detrimental to the fuel cell stack, so the process gas is passed through a shift converter to decrease the carbon monoxide level therein prior to feeding the process gas to the fuel cell stack. In order to decrease the level of carbon monoxide without the need to increase the size of the shift converter catalyst bed, or lower the temperature of the process gas as it enters the shift converter to an undesirably low temperature, the shift converter design that utilizes an upstream adiabatic zone and a downstream actively cooled zone. The actively cooled zone is cooled by a pressurized water coolant which boils as it cools the process gas stream. The coolant entering the shift converter is essentially a single phase water stream, and the coolant exiting the shift converter is a two phase water-steam mixture.

    摘要翻译: 燃料电池发电厂通常具有用于将碳氢化合物燃料电化学转化成电的燃料电池堆。 为了使燃料电池堆使用碳氢化合物燃料,必须将其蒸汽重整成富氢处理气体。 该工艺气体具有对燃料电池堆不利的一氧化碳水平,因此在将工艺气体供给燃料电池堆之前,工艺气体通过变换器以降低其中的一氧化碳水平。 为了降低一氧化碳的水平,而不需要增加变换催化剂床的尺寸,或者当工艺气体进入转换器到不期望的低温时,其温度降低,使用 上游绝热带和下游主动冷却区。 主动冷却区域被加压的水冷却剂冷却,其在冷却工艺气体流时沸腾。 进入换档转换器的冷却剂基本上是单相水流,离开换档转换器的冷却剂是两相水蒸气混合物。

    Catalytic reactor designed to reduce catalyst slumping and crushing
    15.
    发明授权
    Catalytic reactor designed to reduce catalyst slumping and crushing 失效
    催化反应器旨在减少催化剂的坍塌和破碎

    公开(公告)号:US5718881A

    公开(公告)日:1998-02-17

    申请号:US669187

    申请日:1996-06-24

    摘要: A steam reformer for converting a reactor fuel into a product gas includes a segmented catalyst bed. The steam reformer side walls have a thermal coefficient of expansion which is greater than the thermal coefficient of expansion of the catalyst. By forming low volume catalyst bed segments in the hotter portions of the catalyst bed, slumping and subsequent damage of the catalyst pellets is minimized. The catalyst bed is divided into segments whose volumes are inversely proportional to the temperatures of the various zones in the reformer. The segments are formed by utilizing sequential catalyst support assemblies which include perforated catalyst support members that are differentially spaced apart from each other by support assembly legs having varying lengths. Catalyst support assemblies with shorter length legs are used in the hotter zones of the reformer, and support assemblies with progressively longer length legs are used in the cooler zones of the reformer.

    摘要翻译: 用于将反应堆燃料转化为产物气体的蒸汽重整器包括分段的催化剂床。 蒸汽重整器侧壁的热膨胀系数大于催化剂的热膨胀系数。 通过在催化剂床的较热部分中形成低体积的催化剂床段,使催化剂颗粒的坍落和随后的破坏最小化。 催化剂床被分成其体积与重整器中的各个区域的温度成反比的段。 这些段通过利用连续的催化剂支撑组件形成,催化剂支撑组件包括通过具有不同长度的支撑组件腿彼此间隔开的穿孔催化剂支撑构件。 在重整器的较热区域中使用具有较短长度腿部的催化剂支撑组件,并且在重整器的较冷区域中使用具有逐渐更长长度腿部的支撑组件。

    Fuel cell transport frame
    16.
    发明授权
    Fuel cell transport frame 失效
    燃料电池运输框架

    公开(公告)号:US5607786A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-04

    申请号:US435693

    申请日:1995-05-05

    IPC分类号: H01M8/24 H01M12/08

    CPC分类号: H01M8/247

    摘要: The present invention discloses a transport frame for transporting and maintaining a fuel cell stack assembly in a fixed position. The fuel cell stack asembly which is under compression by a top and bottom plate held together by tie rods positioned at the corners of each plate. The top and bottom plates are then mounted to a rigid frame for transporting the fuel cell. The tie rods being attached to mounts in the base plate of the rigid frame and an insulated attachment between the top plate of the fuel cell stack frame and the rigid frame is made. The fuel cell stack assembly being electrically insulated from the rigid frame.

    摘要翻译: 本发明公开了一种用于将燃料电池堆组件运输和维持在固定位置的运输框架。 由顶板和底板压缩的燃料电池堆组件,其通过位于每个板的角落处的拉杆保持在一起。 然后将顶板和底板安装到用于运输燃料电池的刚性框架。 连接杆安装在刚性框架的底板中,并且在燃料电池堆架框架的顶板和刚性框架之间形成绝缘附件。 燃料电池堆组件与刚性框架电绝缘。