Abstract:
A fuel cell that includes specially configured bipolar plates that separate the reactant gas flow field in an active area of the fuel cell into a primary flow channels and a secondary channels. In one embodiment, the primary flow channels are in use over the entire operating range of the fuel cell and the secondary flow channels are only in use at high cell current outputs. At low power demands, the primary channels operate at a voltage below 0.8 volts and provides a gas current density of more than 0.2 A/cm2. The secondary flow channels have no gas supply and operate at mass transport limited conditions. Because of this design, voltage cycling is significantly reduced or eliminated, thus increasing the life of the fuel cell.
Abstract translation:一种燃料电池,其包括特殊配置的双极板,其将燃料电池的有效区域中的反应气体流场分离成主流道和次流道。 在一个实施例中,主流动通道在燃料电池的整个操作范围内使用,并且次级流动通道仅在高电池电流输出时使用。 在低功率需求下,主通道工作在低于0.8伏特的电压,并提供大于0.2A / cm 2的气体电流密度。 二次流动通道没有气体供应并且在大规模运输有限的条件下运行。 由于这种设计,电压循环显着降低或消除,从而增加燃料电池的寿命。
Abstract:
A fuel cell system that employs a fuel cell stack and a supplemental power source, such as a battery or an ultra-capacitor. The power source provides supplemental power in addition to the output power of a fuel cell stack for high load demands. The fuel cell system includes a power management controller that controls the power output from the supplemental power source and the fuel cell stack as the demand on the fuel cell stack changes. During low load demands, where the voltage across the fuel cell stack may increase above a potential that could cause oxidation of platinum catalyst particles within the fuel cells in the stack, the power management controller causes the fuel cell stack to charge the power source so as to decrease the voltage output on the stack.
Abstract:
A valve seat especially adapted for a high performance butterfly valve is characterized by flexing axially rather than stretching radially when the seat interfaces with a closure member. In the preferred form, a seat has a support member embedded therein to provide restorative forces which tend to urge the valve seat to a predetermined position in response to axial flexing.
Abstract:
A method for reconditioning a fuel cell stack. The method includes periodically increasing the relative humidity level of the cathode input airflow to the stack to saturate the cell membrane electrode assemblies to be greater than the relative humidity levels during normal stack operating conditions. The method also includes providing hydrogen to the anode side of the fuel cell stack at system shut down while the membrane electrode assemblies are saturated without stack loads being applied so that the hydrogen crosses the cell membranes to the cathode side and reacts with oxygen to reduce stack contaminants.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a semipermeable hollow fiber membrane having an outer wall surface, an inner wall surface and an interior lumen extending along the length thereof and having the selective layer on the outer wall surface with a surface roughness below 10 nm. According to the invention the membrane has the smallest pore size on the outer wall surface, and has an outer wall surface which is smooth, continuous and homogeneous in a nanoscopic scale and four to five distinct layers of different pore size and density. Further the present invention concerns a process for manufacturing thereof and the use thereof.
Abstract:
Graft copolymers of hydrophobic polymers and hydrophilic polymers, a method for their preparation, and their use in membranes for medical treatments such as hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration, in membranes for water purification, and in membranes for bioprocessing.
Abstract:
A membrane for cultivating adherent or suspension cells, in particular adherent cells. The membrane permits adhesion and proliferation of the cells due to the irradiation of the wet or dry membrane with gamma or beta rays or an electron beam in a dose of from 12.5 to 175 kGy in the presence of oxygen. The resulting membrane may be used without any pre-treatment with surface-modifying substances. A method for preparing such an irradiated membrane for cultivating adherent or suspension cells. Methods of using such a membrane for cultivating adherent or suspension cells.
Abstract:
A membrane which can be used for cultivating cells, in particular adherent cells. The membrane permits the adhesion and proliferation of the cells based on its specific composition comprising polyurethane. The resulting surface characteristics further permit the membrane to be used without any pre-treatment with surface modifying substances. A method for preparing a membrane which can be used for cultivating cells, in particular adherent cells. Methods of using the membrane for cultivating cells, in particular adherent cells.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. This invention further relates to a method for the creation of a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. To keep the effort and expense required for the achievement of a three-dimensional surface texture low, the invention teaches that a film is glued to the component surface (side section 1a), which film has been provided prior to the gluing with a plurality of coats of paint, each using the screen printing process, which in their totality form a three-dimensional surface texture.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. This invention further relates to a method for the creation of a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. To keep the effort and expense required for the achievement of a three-dimensional surface texture low, the invention teaches that a film is glued to the component surface (side section 1a), which film has been provided prior to the gluing with a plurality of coats of paint, each using the screen printing process, which in their totality form a three-dimensional surface texture.