Solid oxide fuel cell housing
OwnerSang-Jun Kong, Kyeong-Beom Cheong +3inventors
InventorsSang-Jun Kong, Kyeong-Beom Cheong, Ki-Woon Kim, Duk-Hyoung Yoon, Tae-Ho Kwon
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Abstract
A housing for a solid oxide fuel cell, the housing including a plurality of side walls defining a cavity; a first opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the first opening being configured to allow fluid to enter into the cavity; a second opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the second opening being configured to allow the fluid to exit from the cavity; and a flow path extending unit between the first opening and the second opening to increase a length of a flow path between the first opening and the second opening.
Claims22
A housing for a solid oxide fuel cell, the housing comprising:
- a plurality of side walls defining a cavity;
- a first opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the first opening being configured to allow fluid to enter into the cavity;
- a second opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the second opening being configured to allow the fluid to exit from the cavity;
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- a flow path extending unit between the first opening and the second opening to increase a length of a flow path between the first opening and the second opening.
A solid oxide fuel cell comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of solid oxide fuel cell cells housed within the housing;
- a fuel supply unit for supplying fuel to the plurality of solid oxide fuel cells;
- an oxidizer supply unit for supplying an oxidizer to the plurality of solid oxide fuel cells;
- wherein the housing comprises:
- a plurality of side walls defining a cavity;
- a first opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the first opening being configured to allow fluid to enter into the cavity;
- a second opening in one of the plurality of side walls, the second opening being configured to allow the fluid to exit from the cavity;
- and
- a flow path extending unit between the first opening and the second opening to increase a length of a flow path between the first opening and the second opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.