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US 2003/0155240 A1Published application
Fuel cell gas sensors
OwnerIlhan Ulkeminventor
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A fuel cell gas sensor for detecting gases such as Hydrogen (H2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) comprises a main body (10) in which are mounted a protection membrane (11), a working electrode (12), electrolyte (13), a counter electrode (14), a protection membrane (15) and respective contacts (16). A catalyst disk (17a) or a very low impedance fuel cell (17b) in placed between the counter electrode (14) and the protection membrane (15). The membrane (15) slows down the flux of gases onto the counter electrode (14). The catalyst disk (17a) eliminates chemically while the fuel cell (17b) eliminates electrochemically the gases to be detected that permeate through the protection membrane (15). This arrangement makes it possible to detect the gases in places where the gases to be detected are able to reach both the working electrode (12) and the counter electrode (14).
A fuel cell sensor for detecting oxidisable gases, comprising working and counter electrodes, and a catalyst disk adapted to chemically oxidise gases on a counter electrode side of said counter electrode opposite a working electrode side thereof for reducing an amount gases that will reach said counter electrode from said counter electrode side.
A fuel cell sensor for detecting oxidisable gases, comprising working and counter electrodes, and a low impedance fuel cell adapted to electro-chemically oxidise gases on a counter electrode side of said counter electrode opposite a working electrode side thereof for reducing an amount gases that will reach said counter electrode from said counter electrode side.
A fuel cell sensor for detecting oxidisable gases, comprising working and counter electrodes, a protection membrane in front of said working electrode and made of dense polymer membrane of PTFE, or PFA or PVDF with a thickness between 5 to 50 microns, and a protection membrane in front of said counter electrode and made of oxygen ion/electronic mixed-conducting ceramic dense membranes, i.e. perovskite phase of composition La1−xAxFe1−yCoyO3 (A=Ba, Ca, Sr).
A fuel cell gas sensor for detecting gases, comprises a housing in which are mounted a working electrode, an electrolyte, a counter electrode, first and second protection membranes located upstream respectively of said working and counter electrodes, respective contacts for said working and counter electrodes, and a gas reducer adapted to change a concentration of the gases to be detected by said gas sensor passing through said second protection membrane before reaching said counter electrode.
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