Bloom Energy Corporation

Martin Perry

David Weingaertner

Michael Petrucha

David Edmonston

Arne Watson Ballantine

Matthias Gottmann

Swaminathan Venkataraman

Nilanjana Basu

William David Lyle

Chockkalingam Karuppaiah

Vlad Kalika

Navaneetha Krishnan

Michael Gasda

Emad El Batawi

Avinash Verma

Andy Ta

James Wilson

John Fisher

Srikanth Ranganathan

Siddharth Patel

Ivan Hartana

Kyle Kekelis

Tad Armstrong

Dien Nguyen

Carl Cottuli

Cheng-Yu Lin

Jessica Mahler

Jayakumar Krishnadass

Ram Ramanan

Ramesha Guntanur

Paturi Balaji Narasimha Prasad

Adil Ashary

Adrian Basharain

Greg Young

Virpaul Bains

Yashas Keshav

Harald Herchen

William Alan Whittenberger

K R Sridhar

Ian Russell

James Huynh

Christian Daco

Shraddesh Malviya

Natarajan Ramanan

Victor Fung

Michael Lesher

Samuel Juday

Daniel Baynes

Tyler Dawson

Ananda Sundararajan

Victor Silva

Nicholas Arcelona

Aniket Pratap

Joshua Baime

Sumit Raj

Mosur K Premkumar

Dongai Shi

Shruti Baharani

Paul Bhangu

Subhash Chander Deswal

Pawan Patil

Brandon Snow

Matthias Gottman

Richard Dole

Suminderpal Singh

Gary Walth

A fuel cell system anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO) includes an inner ATO wall, an outer ATO wall, and a first catalyst ring disposed in a chamber formed between the inner ATO wall and the outer ATO wall. The first catalyst ring includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and a matrix disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall and loaded with an oxidation catalyst.

Fuel cell system including catalyst ring anode tail gas oxidizer

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

A system and method for power generation and COsequestration include a fuel cell system configured to generate power using natural gas (NG), a container configured to store liquid natural gas (LNG), and a fluid processor configured to convert LNG received from the container into NG and to convert exhaust output from the fuel cell system to dry ice by transferring heat between and the LNG and the exhaust.

Combined natural gas power generation and COsequestration system

An electrolyzer system and a fuel cell system that include hydrogen blowers configured to compress hydrogen streams generated by the systems. The 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, a hydrogen blower configured to pressurize the hydrogen stream generated by the stack, and a hydrogen processor configured to compress the pressurized hydrogen stream.

Electrolyzer system with steam generation and method of operating same

A conduit assembly includes a dielectric tube having a first end and a second end, a first metal tube including a first flange coupled to the first end of the inner dielectric tube, the first flange including relief openings, a first dielectric ring coupled to the first flange, a second metal tube including a second flange coupled to the second end of the inner dielectric tube, the second flange including relief openings, and a second dielectric ring coupled to the second flange.

Dielectric conduit assemblies and methods of making thereof

A fuel cell system includes at least one hot box including a fuel cell stack and producing an anode exhaust product, at least one hydrogen pump, at least one product conduit fluidly connecting an anode exhaust product outlet of the hot box to an inlet of the at least one hydrogen pump, a compressed hydrogen product conduit connected to a compressed hydrogen product outlet of the at least one hydrogen pump, and at least one effluent conduit connected to an unpumped effluent outlet of the at least one hydrogen pump. Additional embodiments include a fuel cell system in which the anode exhaust product stream is provided to at least one carbon dioxide pump to generate a compressed carbon dioxide product and an unpumped effluent that may be recycled to the at least one hot box of the fuel cell system. In various embodiments, the fuel cell system may use or recapture essentially all of the hydrogen content and nearly all of the carbon content of the input fuel that is provided to the fuel cell system.

Fuel cell systems and methods with improved fuel utilization

A method of operating a solid oxide electrolyzer system includes providing a water inlet stream to at least one solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC), generating a wet hydrogen product stream from the at least one SOEC, providing the wet hydrogen product stream to at least one hydrogen pump, generating a compressed hydrogen product and an unpumped effluent in the at least one hydrogen pump, and recycling at least a portion of the unpumped effluent upstream of the at least one hydrogen pump.

Solid oxide electrolyzer systems containing hydrogen pump and method of operating thereof

A method of sealing a glow plug of a fuel cell system, the glow plug including a housing and a heating element extending from a first end of the housing. The method includes inserting the heating element into a sealing element having an annular base and a tubular collar extending from the base and forming a fluid-tight connection between the glow plug and the fuel cell system by attaching the collar to the heating element and by attaching the base to the first end of the housing.

Fuel cell system glow plug and method of forming same

A method of forming a fuel cell interconnect includes depositing a Cr alloy powder, sintering the Cr alloy powder, and repeating the depositing and the sintering to form the fuel cell interconnect. The Cr alloy powder may include a pre-alloyed powder containing from about 4 wt. % to about 6 wt. % Fe, and from about 94 wt. % to about 96 wt. % Cr.

Methods for manufacturing fuel cell interconnects using 3D printing

A method of operating a vessel includes providing hydrogen or a fuel mixture containing hydrogen and a hydrocarbon fuel to a power generator disposed on the vessel, and providing power from the power generator to an electrical load of the vessel.

Use of hydrogen and liquid natural gas hybrid fuel in marine applications to reduce carbon footprint

A fuel cell system includes at least one of plural electrochemical pump separators to separate carbon dioxide from a fuel exhaust stream or a combination of a gas separator and a fuel exhaust cooler located outside a hotbox.

A method of operating a fuel cell system includes providing an anode exhaust from a fuel cell stack to a water injector, supplying water to the water injector, and injecting the water from the water injector into the anode exhaust to vaporize the water and generate a humidified anode exhaust.

Fuel cell system containing water injector and method of operating the same

A fuel cell column includes first and second fuel cell stacks, a fuel manifold disposed between the first and second fuel cell stacks and configured to provide fuel to the first and second fuel cell stacks, and first and second dielectric separators located between the fuel manifold and the respective first and second fuel cell stacks, and configured to electrically isolate the respective first and second fuel cell stacks from the fuel manifold. The first and second dielectric separators each include a top layer of a ceramic material, a bottom layer of the ceramic material, a middle layer disposed between the top and bottom layers and including a material having a lower density and a higher dielectric strength than the ceramic material, and glass or glass ceramic seals which connect the middle layer to the top and bottom layers.

Dielectric separator for fuel cell stack assembly and manufacturing method thereof

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