Fuel cell system
AssigneeSamsung SDI Co., Ltd.
InventorsSang-Jun Kong, Seong-Kee Yoon, Ho-Jin Kweon
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Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack for generating electricity by a electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen; a controller for controlling the operation of the system; a hydride storage tank for storing hydride powder as a source of hydrogen for the fuel cell stack; a hydrogen separating chamber for collecting hydrogen gas generated from a reaction of the hydride powder and liquid catalyst; a powder transferring device for transferring the hydride powder to the hydrogen separating chamber; and a residue collector for collecting residues that are generated from the reaction and settled at the bottom of the hydrogen separating chamber.
Claims20
A fuel cell system comprising:
- a hydride storage tank adapted to store hydride powder;
- a hydrogen separating chamber adapted to contain hydrogen gas generated by a reaction of the hydride powder and a liquid catalyst, wherein the hydrogen separating chamber comprises:
- an external chamber;
- an internal chamber inside the external chamber, wherein the internal chamber includes a plurality of liquid passing holes and a hydride powder entry port adapted to allow the hydride powder from a powder transferring device to pass into the internal chamber;
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- a hydrogen supply pipe;
- the powder transferring device adapted to transfer and discharge the hydride powder to the hydrogen separating chamber;
- a solid residue collector adapted to collect solid residues generated by the reaction;
- a fuel cell stack adapted to convert the hydrogen gas to power;
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- a controller adapted to control the transfer of hydride powder from the hydride storage tank to the hydrogen separating chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.