摘要:
According to one embodiment, a cell stack of a fuel cell device comprises a positive electrode including a anode separator, and a pair of anode plates laminated opposite first and second contact surfaces of the anode separator, a pair of negative electrodes laminated individually on the opposite sides of the positive electrode, and electrolyte layers. The negative electrode includes a cathode plate opposed to each corresponding anode plate with a gap therebetween and a cathode separator provided with a contact surface opposed to the cathode plate. The anode separator includes first fuel channels formed in the first contact surface, second fuel channels formed in the second contact surface, and cooling channels formed between the first and second contact surfaces and through which a coolant is circulated. The cathode separator includes a plurality of air channels formed in the contact surface and through which air is supplied to the cathode plate.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a fuel cell device comprises an electromotive section which is provided with a cell including an anode and a cathode opposed to each other and configured to generate electricity in consequence of a chemical reaction, a fuel tank configured to store a fuel, a fuel channel in which the fuel flows through the anode, an air channel in which air flows through the cathode, a cooling channel which diverges from the fuel channel and extends through the electromotive section, and a fuel supply section configured to supply the fuel from the fuel tank to the anode through the fuel channel and configured to flow some of the fuel from the cooling channel through the electromotive section to cool the electromotive section.
摘要:
A fuel cell system includes an anode electrode to which fuel is to be supplied; a cathode electrode to which an oxidant containing air or oxygen is to be supplied; an electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode; a catalyst section configured to accelerate a chemical reaction of at least a portion of a material discharged from the cathode electrode and a material discharged from the anode electrode; an oxidant supply unit configured to supply the oxidant to the cathode electrode; and a control unit configured to control an amount of the oxidant to be supplied to the cathode electrode. The control unit controls the oxidant supply unit to increase the amount of the oxidant to be supplied to the cathode electrode when the oxidant supply unit starts to operate.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a method of driving a fuel cell device includes calculating a fuel shortage based on a difference between the fuel concentration detected by a concentration sensor element and a predetermined desired fuel concentration, and obtaining an efficiency of electricity generation of an electromotive section based on the temperature of the electromotive section detected by a temperature sensor element and the load current measured by a control section. The method includes calculating a fuel consumption by the electromotive section for electricity generation based on the output of the electromotive section and the obtained electricity generation efficiency, and replenishing by a supply section a mixing tank with an amount of fuel equivalent to the sum of the calculated fuel shortage and the calculated fuel consumption, thereby controlling the concentration of the fuel supplied to the electromotive section.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a method of driving a fuel cell device includes calculating a fuel shortage based on a difference between the fuel concentration detected by a concentration sensor element and a predetermined desired fuel concentration, and obtaining an efficiency of electricity generation of an electromotive section based on the temperature of the electromotive section detected by a temperature sensor element and the load current measured by a control section. The method includes calculating a fuel consumption by the electromotive section for electricity generation based on the output of the electromotive section and the obtained electricity generation efficiency, and replenishing by a supply section a mixing tank with an amount of fuel equivalent to the sum of the calculated fuel shortage and the calculated fuel consumption, thereby controlling the concentration of the fuel supplied to the electromotive section.
摘要:
An electronic device includes a power supply and a power supply circuit. The power supply circuit is configured to alternately switch a state of the electronic device between a first state to supply power to another device and a second state to receive power from said another device, and stop a switching operation of the state of the electronic device when the electronic device is off, to fix the state of the electronic device to one of the first state and the second state.
摘要:
An catalyst for purifying exhaust gas comprising an OCS material that has sufficient heat resistance and achieves a favorable balance between the oxygen storage volume and the oxygen absorption/release rate includes an catalyst for purifying exhaust, which has a substrate and a catalyst coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating layer comprises a ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide having a pyrochlore structure in an amount of 5 to 100 g/L based on the volume of the substrate, the ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide has a secondary particle size (D50) of 3 μm to 7 μm, and the ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide optionally contains praseodymium.
摘要:
A recording medium conveyance guide device includes a conveyance guide disposed upstream from a transfer nip to transfer an image to a recording medium in a recording-medium conveyance direction, to at least partially contact the recording medium. The recording medium conveyance guide device further includes a drive device to move a leading edge of the conveyance guide from a first position to a second position closer to the transfer nip than the first position when the trailing edge of the recording medium approaches the leading edge of the conveyance guide.
摘要:
The hydrogen production device of the present invention includes: a first electrode including a conductive substrate and a photocatalytic semiconductor layer; a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode and disposed in a second region opposite to a first region relative to the first electrode; the first region is defined as a region on a side of a surface of the first electrode in which the photocatalytic semiconductor layer is provided; a water-containing electrolyte solution; and a housing containing these. The first electrode is provided with first through-holes and the second electrode is provided with second through-holes; and the first through-holes and second through-holes form a communicating hole for allowing the first region and the second region to communicate with each other. An ion exchange membrane having substantially the same shape as the communicating hole is disposed in the communicating hole to close the communicating hole.
摘要:
A composite oxide with a high oxygen storage capacity is provided without using cerium. The composite oxide is an iron oxide-zirconia composite oxide containing iron, zirconium, and a rare-earth element. The total content of Fe2O3, ZrO2, and an oxide of the rare-earth element is not less than 90 mass %, the content of an iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3 is 10 to 90 mass %, and the absolute value of the covariance COV(Fe, Zr+X) of the composite oxide, which has been baked in the atmosphere at a temperature of greater than or equal to 900° C. for 5 hours or more, determined by the following Formulae (1) to (3), is not greater than 20: [ Math . 1 ] R i ( Fe ) = I i ( Fe ) × 100 I i ( Fe ) + I i ( Zr ) + I i ( X ) ( 1 ) R i ( Zr + X ) = { I i ( Zr ) + I i ( X ) } × 100 I i ( Fe ) + I i ( Zr ) + I i ( X ) ( 2 ) COV ( Fe , Zr + X ) = 1 n ∑ i = 1 n [ { R i ( Fe ) - R av ( Fe ) } × { R i ( Zr + X ) - R av ( Zr + X ) } ] ( 3 ) (in the formula, Ii(Fe), Ii(Zr), and Ii(X) respectively represent the ratios of the X-ray intensities of iron, zirconium, and the rare-earth element measured at a measurement point i (where i=1 to n) to the 100% intensities of the respective elements as measured by subjecting the composite oxide to a ray analysis through EPMA (WDX: wavelength dispersive X-ray spectrometry), where Rav(Fe) and Rav(Zr+X) represent the mean values of Ri(Fe) and Ri(Zr+X), respectively, at all measurement points n).