Bloom Energy Corporation

Andy Ta

Arne Watson Ballantine

Matthias Gottmann

Martin Perry

David Weingaertner

Swaminathan Venkataraman

Chockkalingam Karuppaiah

Michael Petrucha

Michael Gasda

David Edmonston

Srikanth Ranganathan

Nilanjana Basu

William David Lyle

Vlad Kalika

Kyle Kekelis

Shannon Bell

Mark Stanton

Siddharth Patel

Navaneetha Krishnan

Ram Ramanan

Ehsan Raoufat

Alireza Saeedmanesh

Julio Luna

Virpaul Bains

Cory Mcclintic

Alejandro Carlos Lavernia

Kim Nguyen

Brandon Snow

Navaneethakrishnan Govindarasu

Nandan Joshi

Anthony Brewer

Kidus Tsegay

Ananda Sundararajan

A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a fuel inlet conduit configured to provide a fuel to a fuel inlet of the fuel cell stack, an electrochemical pump separator containing an electrolyte, a cathode, and a carbon monoxide tolerant anode, a fuel exhaust conduit that operatively connects a fuel exhaust outlet of the fuel cell stack to an anode inlet of the electrochemical pump separator, and a product conduit which operatively connects a cathode outlet of the electrochemical pump separator to the fuel inlet conduit.

Solid oxide fuel cell system with hydrogen pumping cell with carbon monoxide tolerant anodes and integrated shift reactor

An electrolyzer system includes a steam generator configured to generate steam, a stack of solid oxide electrolyzer cells configured to generate a hydrogen stream using the steam received from the steam generator, and a water preheater configured to preheat water provided to the steam generator using heat extracted from oxygen exhaust output from the stack.

Electrolyzer system with steam generation and method of operating same

An electrolyzer system includes a splitter configured to split a first air inlet stream into a bypass air stream and a second air inlet stream, a stack of electrolyzer cells configured receive steam and the second air inlet stream and output a product stream containing hydrogen and an oxygen exhaust stream, such that the bypass air stream is configured to bypass the stack, and a product cooler heat exchanger configured to cool the product stream using the first air inlet stream.

Solid oxide electrolyzer system including air bypass

A solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system including a stack of electrolyzer cells configured to receive liquid water that is heated using one or more heaters, and a mass flow controller configured to control the liquid water flowrate into the one or more heaters.

Internal steam delivery system

Various hot box fuel cell system components are provided, such as heat exchangers, steam generator and other components.

SOFC hot box components

According to an embodiment, a gas delivery device for a fuel cell system includes a hollow ceramic element comprising a dielectric material having at least one groove in one end face of the ceramic element and a first metal tube, wherein an end of the first metal tube is inserted into the groove of the hollow ceramic element. According to an embodiment, a fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack or column, a gas delivery line fluidly connected to the stack or column, and a coefficient of thermal expansion compensator/isolator located in the gas delivery line, where the coefficient of thermal expansion compensator/isolator includes a hollow ceramic element made of a dielectric material having at least one groove in one end face of the ceramic element, a first metal tube, where an end of the first metal tube is inserted into the groove of the hollow ceramic element, and a hollow flexible element which compensates for differences in coefficients of thermal expansion between components of the fuel cell system.

Hermetic high temperature dielectric with groove and thermal expansion compensator

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Andy Ta