公开(公告)号：US07198761B2

公开(公告)日：2007-04-03

申请号：US10315548

申请日：2002-12-10

申请人： Jason W Buelow ,  Doanh Tran ,  Thomas S Moore ,  Mohsen D Shabana ,  Christopher E Borroni-Bird

发明人： Jason W Buelow ,  Doanh Tran ,  Thomas S Moore ,  Mohsen D Shabana ,  Christopher E Borroni-Bird

IPC分类号： B32B5/02 ,  B32B27/04 ,  B01J10/00 ,  B01J7/00 ,  H01M8/04

CPC分类号： F02B43/10 ,  F02M25/12 ,  Y02T10/32

摘要： A hydrogen fuel system for a vehicle includes a fuel tank having a fuel inlet for receiving a borohydride fuel into a fuel holding portion of an internal cavity, and a waste inlet arranged to receive the waste liquid generated by an on-board hydrogen reaction process. The waste liquid is received into a waste liquid portion of the internal cavity. An expandable divider element is positioned within the tank to keep the fuel holding portion of the internal cavity separate from the waste liquid holding portion. The waste liquid holding portion can be positioned within the internal cavity so as to allow heat from the waste liquid to preheat the fuel stored in the fuel holding portion.

摘要翻译： 一种用于车辆的氢燃料系统包括具有用于将硼氢化物燃料接收到内部空间的燃料保持部分的燃料入口的燃料箱和布置成接收通过车载氢气反应过程产生的废液的废物入口。 废液被接收到内腔的废液部分中。 可膨胀分隔元件位于罐内，以保持内腔的燃料保持部分与废液保持部分分离。 废液保持部分可以位于内腔内，以便允许来自废液的热量来预热储存在燃料保持部分中的燃料。

公开(公告)号：US07179443B2

公开(公告)日：2007-02-20

申请号：US10650893

申请日：2003-08-28

申请人： Andreas Schell ,  Rolf Schaller ,  Jason W Buelow ,  Doanh T Tran

发明人： Andreas Schell ,  Rolf Schaller ,  Jason W Buelow ,  Doanh T Tran

IPC分类号： C01B3/06

CPC分类号： C01B3/065 ,  B01F7/00416 ,  B01F7/02 ,  B01F2015/061 ,  B01J7/02 ,  B01J8/10 ,  B01J19/0066 ,  B01J2219/00006 ,  B01J2219/182 ,  H01M8/04216 ,  H01M8/065 ,  Y02E60/362

摘要： A system for generating hydrogen gas for use in a fuel cell includes a powder metal hydride source, a water source, a mixing device and a catalytic hydrogen generating chamber. A method of generating hydrogen for use in a fuel cell includes the steps of: providing a source of dry metal hydride fuel; providing a source of steam; providing a mixing/reaction chamber connected to the source of dry metal hydride fuel and to the source of steam; operating the mixing/reaction chamber to transport the dry metal hydride fuel from its source to a byproduct receptacle and feeding steam into the mixing/reaction chamber such that the steam reacts with the dry metal hydride fuel to produce hydrogen gas and a dry metal powder byproduct; removing the dry metal powder byproduct from the mixing/reaction chamber; and extracting the hydrogen gas from the mixing/reaction chamber.

摘要翻译： 用于生成用于燃料电池的氢气的系统包括粉末金属氢化物源，水源，混合装置和催化氢气产生室。 一种生产用于燃料电池的氢的方法包括以下步骤：提供干金属氢化物燃料源; 提供蒸汽源; 提供连接到干金属氢化物燃料源和蒸汽源的混合/反应室; 操作混合/反应室以将干金属氢化物燃料从其源输送到副产品容器并将蒸汽进料到混合/反应室中，使得蒸汽与干金属氢化物燃料反应以产生氢气和干金属粉末副产物 ; 从混合/反应室中除去干金属粉末副产物; 并从混合/反应室中提取氢气。

公开(公告)号：US07604883B2

公开(公告)日：2009-10-20

申请号：US10622165

申请日：2003-07-17

申请人： Rolf Schaller ,  Jason W Buelow

发明人： Rolf Schaller ,  Jason W Buelow

IPC分类号： H01M8/04

CPC分类号： H01M8/04007 ,  H01M8/04156 ,  H01M8/04186 ,  H01M8/0662

摘要： A fuel cell system having a fuel cell with an anode chamber separated from a cathode chamber by a proton exchange membrane. The cathode chamber receives a compressed oxygen-containing gas and discharges it to a cathode exhaust gas line. The cathode exhaust gas is cooled to remove excess moisture. The cathode exhaust gas line then flows through a heat exchanger that is coupled to the fuel cell for receiving waste heat of the fuel cell and transferring it to the cathode exhaust gas. The heated cathode exhaust gas then flows to an expansion turbine, where additional fuel cell waste heat is transferred to the exhaust gas. The greater work performed by the higher energy exhaust gas passing through the expansion turbine increases the overall efficiency of the fuel cell system.

摘要翻译： 一种具有燃料电池的燃料电池系统，其具有通过质子交换膜与阴极室分离的阳极室。 阴极室接收压缩的含氧气体并将其排出到阴极排气管线。 将阴极废气冷却以除去多余的水分。 阴极废气管线然后流过耦合到燃料电池的热交换器，用于接收燃料电池的废热并将其转移到阴极废气。 然后，加热的阴极废气流到膨胀涡轮机，其中附加的燃料电池废热转移到废气。 通过膨胀涡轮机的较高能量废气进行的更大的工作提高了燃料电池系统的整体效率。