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US09362578B2 Fuel cell power plant operating system and method for use in sub-freezing ambient conditions 有权
燃料电池发电厂操作系统和在低温环境条件下使用的方法

  • Patent Title: Fuel cell power plant operating system and method for use in sub-freezing ambient conditions
  • Patent Title (中): 燃料电池发电厂操作系统和在低温环境条件下使用的方法
  • Application No.: US13884039
    Application Date: 2010-12-07
  • Publication No.: US09362578B2
    Publication Date: 2016-06-07
  • Inventor: Timothy PattersonParavastu Badrinarayanan
  • Applicant: Timothy PattersonParavastu Badrinarayanan
  • Applicant Address: DE Ingolstadt
  • Assignee: Audi AG
  • Current Assignee: Audi AG
  • Current Assignee Address: DE Ingolstadt
  • Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
  • International Application: PCT/US2010/003098 WO 20101207
  • International Announcement: WO2012/078123 WO 20120614
  • Main IPC: H01M8/04
  • IPC: H01M8/04
Fuel cell power plant operating system and method for use in sub-freezing ambient conditions
Abstract:
The fuel cell power plant operating system (10) includes an on/off switching device by-pass circuit (60) to sustain operation of a fuel cell (12) whenever the fuel cell (12) on/off switching device (58) is turned off while a fuel cell operating temperature is below a predetermined freeze-safe operating temperature. The by-pass circuit (60) operates the fuel cell (12) until the fuel cell (12) temperature reaches or exceeds the freeze-safe temperature to thereby prevent fuel cell (12) product water from becoming ice in and adjacent fuel cell catalysts (26, 40).
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