Supply system for a means of a transport, method for providing an inert gas and electric power, aircraft with such a supply system and use of a fuel cell
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsSebastian Mock, Johannes Lauckner, Viktor Selinger
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for producing an inert gas that comprises a fuel tank for a fuel, at least one fuel cell with a cathode, an anode, a reactor for reforming fuel from the fuel tank into a hydrogenous fuel gas and an inert gas outlet. The reactor comprises a fuel gas outlet that is connected to a fuel gas inlet arranged on the anode of the fuel cell. The inert gas outlet is arranged downstream of the reactor and forms a fluid sink for non-hydrogenous reaction products of the reactor.
Claims18
A device for producing an inert gas, comprising
- a fuel tank for a fuel,
- at least one fuel cell with a cathode, an anode,
- a reactor for reforming fuel from the fuel tank into a hydrogenous fuel gas and an inert gas outlet,
- wherein the reactor comprises a fuel gas outlet that is connected to a fuel gas inlet arranged on the anode of the fuel cell, and
- wherein the inert gas outlet is arranged downstream of the reactor and forms a fluid sink for non-hydrogenous reaction products of the reactor.
A method for providing inert gas, comprising the steps of:
- reforming fuel in order to obtain a hydrogenous fuel gas,
- feeding the hydrogenous fuel gas to an anode of a fuel cell and
- removing a non-hydrogenous residual gas after the reforming process.
The use of anode waste gas of a fuel cell with an upstream reactor in order to reform fuel into a hydrogenous fuel gas for inerting a space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.