Method for handling an electrolyser stack and electrolyser stack and production unit
Assigneethyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA
InventorsAnders NYGÅRD LAURIDSEN, Bo ØSTERLUND MORTENSEN, Rasmus ODGAARD WORSØE, Henning MORTENSEN
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Abstract
Electrolyser stack and production unit are provided, in which the electrolyser stack include endplates and pull rods extending between the endplates. Feet are arranged at the endplates whereby each foot includes a downwardly directed support surface arranged to abut onto a production unit track or handling unit track whereby the production unit tracks are arranged to extend in parallel with the length axis of the electrolyser stack and whereby the electrolyser stack is movable along the production unit track by sliding the feet along upward facing horizontal slide tracks of the production unit track.
Claims10
A method for handling an electrolyser stack, the method comprising the following steps:
- arranging an array of individual stacks side by side on production unit tracks in a production unit whereby all stacks and pertaining production unit tracks are aligned in parallel with each other
- arranging support feet at least at each end of the stacks;
- wherein the support feet are arranged as radial protrusions of endplates, where the protrusions are provided with flat surfaces extending along a common horizontal plane with respect to the endplates of each stack and whereby the flat surfaces transfer the entire weight onto corresponding flat horizontal slide tracks on the production unit tracks or handling unit tracks;
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- providing a force whenever movement of the stack is required and arrange the force to push and/or pull a single stack in the length axis direction whereby the force slides the stack on the support feet along the production unit tracks.
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An electrolyser stack and production unit, whereby the electrolyser stack comprise endplates and pull rods extending between the endplates characterized in that, feet are arranged at the endplates, wherein the feet are provided as radial protrusions of the endplates, where the protrusions are provided with flat surfaces extending along a common horizontal plane with respect to the endplates of each stack, whereby each foot comprises a downwardly directed support surface arranged to abut onto a production track or handling unit track whereby the production unit tracks are arranged to extend in parallel with the length axis of the electrolyser stack and whereby the electrolyser stack is movable along the production unit track by sliding the feet-along upward facing horizontal slide tracks of the production unit track.
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