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US 9,520,602 B2Granted
SOFC hot box components
AssigneeBloom Energy Corporation
InventorsSwaminathan Venkataraman, Vlad Kalika, David Weingaertner
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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 fuel cell system comprising:
- a hot box;
- and
- a fuel cell stack, an anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO), an anode exhaust stream splitter, and an anode cooler heat exchanger located in the hot box;
- wherein the splitter is configured to provide a first portion of a fuel cell stack anode exhaust stream into the ATO while allowing a remainder of the anode exhaust stream to pass through the splitter into the anode cooler without being provided into the ATO.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.