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US 4,657,828 AGranted
Fuel cell system
AssigneeFuji Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Tajima
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Abstract
A fuel cell system is disclosed including a fuel cell having a fuel supply subsystem including a fuel chamber and an air or oxygen supply subsystem including an air or oxygen chamber, a burner, in which fuel derived from the fuel subsystem of the fuel cell is burned with air or oxygen, and a storage tank, in which combustion gas produced in the burner is stored as replacement gas so that the replacement gas is fed from the storage tank into the fuel subsystem of the fuel cell at the time of start and stop of operation of the fuel cell.
Claims6
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a fuel cell, said fuel cell having a fuel supply subsystem including a fuel chamber and an air or oxygen supply subsystem including an air or oxygen chamber;
- burning means for burning, with air or oxygen, a fuel derived from said fuel subsystem;
- and
- storage means for storing combustion gas produced in said burning means as a replacement gas, wherein the combustion gas is fed as replacement gas from said storage means to said fuel chamber and said air or oxygen chamber at the time of start and stop of operation of said fuel cell.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.