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US 12,716,142 B2Granted
Vaporizer and external steam for solid oxide electrolyzer
AssigneeBloom Energy Corporation
InventorsSiddharth Patel, Navaneethakrishnan Govindarasu, Andy Ta, David Weingaertner, Cory Mcclintic, Ryan Johnson, Samuel Juday, Kim Nguyen
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Abstract
An electrolyzer system including a hotbox, one or more stacks disposed within the hotbox, a fuel exhaust conduit that receives fuel exhaust output by the stack, a fuel exhaust separator that separates liquid from the fuel exhaust, and a recycling conduit that fluidly connects the fuel exhaust to the fuel inlet conduit.
Claims13
An electrolyzer system comprising:
- a hotbox;
- stacks of electrolyzer cells disposed within the hotbox;
- an exhaust conduit that is configured to receive an exhaust output by the stacks;
- steam plumbing disposed on top of the hotbox and configured to provide steam to the hotbox, the steam plumbing comprising an external steam inlet configured to receive the steam from an external steam source, an internal steam inlet configured to receive the steam from a vaporizer removably mounted to an outer surface of the hotbox, and a cap, shim, or flange blocking one of the external steam inlet or the internal steam inlet;
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- a recycling loop that fluidly connects the exhaust conduit to the steam plumbing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.