Fuel Cell
AssigneeAir Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour Etude et Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
InventorsArnaud CERCEAU, Nicolas Jannin, Julien Marteau
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Abstract
Fuel cell including several stacks of fuel cell elementary cells, at least part of the stacks being mounted in parallel and in a modular manner in order to allow the electric power level supplied by the cell to be adapted by adapting the number of stacks present in the cell, the cell including a cooling circuit including several legs in parallel for the selective cooling of said stacks by means of heat exchange, a heat-conveying liquid being selectively circulated in the cooling circuit via at least one pump, characterized in that the cooling circuit includes different pumps arranged respectively in several of said legs of the cooling circuit,
Claims9
A fuel cell comprising:
- several stacks of fuel cell elementary cells, at least part of the stacks being mounted electrically in parallel and in a modular manner in order to allow an electric power level supplied by the fuel cell to be adapted by adapting the number of stacks present in the fuel cell;
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- a cooling circuit including several legs fluidically in parallel adapted and configured for selective cooling of said stacks by means of heat exchange with a heat-conveying liquid that is selectively circulated in the cooling circuit via at least one pump, wherein the cooling circuit comprises a respective pump in each of said several parallel legs of the cooling circuit, each one of said several pumps being structurally connected to one of said corresponding stacks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.