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US 7,396,603 B2Granted
Integrated high efficiency fossil fuel power plant/fuel cell system with CO2 emissions abatement
AssigneeFuelCell Energy, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Farooque, Fred C. Jahnke
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Abstract
An integrated power production system including a fossil fuel power plant for processing fossil based fuel such as coal or natural gas arranged in tandem with a carbonate fuel cell having an anode and a cathode section. The flue gas of the power plant serves exclusively as the inlet gas for the cathode section of the fuel cell. Anode exhaust gas leaving the anode section of the fuel cell is subjected to processing including sequestration of the carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas.
Claims17
An integrated power production system comprising:
- a fossil fuel power plant producing an output flue gas containing carbon dioxide and oxygen;
- a carbonate fuel cell having an anode section and a cathode section;
- wherein the inlet gas to the cathode section of said carbonate fuel cell contains exclusively all or part of the output flue gas produced by said fossil fuel power plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.