Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.

Thyssen Krupp Ag

Thyssenkrupp System Engineering Gmbh

Mareike Wolter

Mihails Kusnezoff

Sebastian Reuber

Uwe Partsch

Adrian Goldberg

Michael Clauss

Rico Belitz

Thomas Pfeifer

Claudia Feller

Christian Schlemminger

Stefanie Koszyk

Markus Barthel

Peter Marcinkowski

Daniel Tittel

Thomas Echelmeyer

Michael Roscher

Kristian Nikolowski

Christian Freytag

In the electrical energy storage element in accordance with the invention, a plurality of electrochemical cells that are each formed with a cathode and an anode as electrodes and an electrolyte are arranged stacked above one another. They are enclosed at one side by a top plate formed from an electrically conductive material, in particular aluminum, and at the oppositely disposed side by a base plate formed from an electrically conductive material, in particular aluminum. The base plate is coated by a cathode or by an anode and the cover plate is coated in a complementary manner by an anode or by a cathode. The anodes and cathodes are each formed at oppositely disposed surfaces of an electrically conductive carrier film which preferably comprises aluminum, copper, steel or an electrically conductive plastic. An outer peripheral margin is present at the carrier film that is free of electrode material and connects adjacent electrochemical cells to one another in a hermetically sealed manner with respect to the environment by means of a sealing and bonding agent. The anodes comprise a lithium titanate (LTO) having a spinel structure and the high-voltage cathodes are formed from a lithium nickel manganate (LNMO) having a spinel structure or from lithium phosphates (LP) in an olivine structure. With a gel electrolyte, a respective separator layer is present between the electrolyte and an electrode of an electrochemical cell and with a solid electrolyte no separator layer is present.

Electrical energy storage element, method and apparatus for producing said electrical energy storage element

The invention relates to electrochemical cells of a rechargeable battery. It is the object of the invention to provide possibilities with which parameters can be determined simply, reliably and with sufficient spatial resolution within the cells of a rechargeable battery in real time and with small additional technical effort. In an electrochemical cell in accordance with the invention, at least one sensor element is arranged within the cell, integrated therein. In this respect, a sensor element is configured as an electrically conductive layer-wise conductor track structure on a surface of a dielectric laminate configured in the form of a thin film. Except for regions arranged at the outer margin provided for an electrical contacting, the conductor track structure is sealed in a fluid-tight manner by a further dielectric laminate which is configured in the form of a film and which is arranged on the conductor track structure.

Electrochemical cell of an accumulator

The invention relates to a system having high-temperature fuel cells, for example SOFCs. A reformer connected upstream of the high-temperature fuel cells at the anode side, a start burner for the preheating of the cathodes of the high-temperature fuel cells, an afterburner and an operating heat exchanger are present at the system in accordance with the invention. Oxidizing agent can be supplied to the high-temperature fuel cell cathodes through the operating heat exchanger. In addition, it can be heated with the exhaust gas of the high-temperature fuel cells. Exhaust gas conducted through the operating heat exchanger can flow in an exhaust gas line together with environmental air and can then be conducted away into the environment as cooled exhaust gas.

System having high-temperature fuel cells

The invention relates to a high-temperature fuel cell system having a start burner. Such fuel cell systems are in particular operated at temperatures between 650&#xb0; C. and 1000&#xb0; C. due to the ion-conductive properties of the electrolytes used. It is necessary for this reason to carry out a heating before the actual operation of the systems, which takes place by an external supply of energy. The exhaust gas of a start burner of the high-temperature fuel cell system is supplied to a heat exchanger or to two heat exchangers in a series connection for the preheating of an oxidizing agent which can be supplied to at least one fuel cell at the cathode side. In this respect, the oxidizing agent and the exhaust gas of the start burner are conducted over the total surfaces of the one heat exchanger or of the two heat exchangers available for the heat exchange and hot, returned exhaust gas from the total system is conducted over one heat exchanger of the two heat exchangers arranged in series or in a second zone B of a single heat exchanger having two zones A and B over a part region of the surface available for the heat exchange.

High-temperature fuel cell system having a start burner

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Dresden, Germany

Mareike Wolter