High-efficiency molten carbonate fuel cell system with carbon dioxide capture assembly and method
AssigneeFuelCell Energy, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Farooque, Carla Juhas, Ramakrishnan Venkataraman
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AssigneeFuelCell Energy, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Farooque, Carla Juhas, Ramakrishnan Venkataraman
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A high efficiency fuel cell system adapted to receive flue gas from a flue gas generating device and to capture carbon dioxide from the flue gas, the high efficiency fuel cell system comprising a topping fuel cell assembly comprising a topping cathode portion and a topping anode portion, a bottoming fuel cell assembly comprising a bottoming cathode portion and a bottoming anode portion, wherein the bottoming anode portion receives anode exhaust output from the topping anode portion, and a separation assembly configured to receive carbon dioxide-containing exhaust and to separate carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide-containing exhaust, wherein the carbon dioxide-containing exhaust is one of anode exhaust output from the bottoming anode portion and a gas derived from the anode exhaust output from the bottoming anode portion, and wherein at least one of the topping cathode portion and the bottoming cathode portion receives at least a portion of the flue gas output from the flue gas generating device.
A high efficiency fuel cell system adapted to receive flue gas from a flue gas generating device and to capture carbon dioxide from the flue gas, the high efficiency fuel cell system comprising:
A method of generating electricity using a high efficiency fuel cell system adapted to receive flue gas from a flue gas generating device and of capturing carbon dioxide from the flue gas, the method comprising:
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