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US 8,563,180 B2Granted
SOFC hot box components
AssigneeBloom Energy Corporation
InventorsMartin Perry, David Weingaertner, Nilanjana Basu, Michael Petrucha, William David Lyle, Navaneetha Krishnan, Matthias Gottmann
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Abstract
Various hot box fuel cell system components are provided, such as heat exchangers, steam generator and other components.
Claims8
A cathode recuperator uni-shell comprising a monolithic assembly comprising a single cylindrical corrugated fin plate;
- a top enclosure comprising a finger plate;
- and a bottom enclosure comprising a finger plate, wherein the finger plates comprise finger shaped extensions consisting of finger plate extensions which only cover every other corrugation of the cylindrical corrugated fin plate;
- wherein the cathode recuperator uni-shell is configured so that a first fluid flows on one side of the single cylindrical corrugated fin plate and a second fluid flows on an opposite side of the single cylindrical corrugated fin plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.