Avl List Gmbh

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Michael Reissig

Jörg Mathé

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Julian Makinson

Juergen Rechberger

Bernd Reiter

Vincent Lawlor

Thomas Krauss

Shinichi Miyazaki

Hayato Chikugo

Takeshi Shiomi

Daiki Tanaka

Masanari Yanagisawa

Tadaki Mano

Robert Pöschl

Tetsushi Noda

Stefan Planitzer

Arthur Kliment

Jürgen Rechberger

The present invention concerns a starting burner () for a fuel cell system (), having a catalyst () with a catalyst inlet () and a catalyst outlet (), a catalyst area () being formed between the catalyst inlet () and the catalyst outlet (), and the catalyst area () being surrounded by a catalyst wall () in a passage direction (D) from the catalyst inlet () to the catalyst outlet (), and an operating fluid guide section () for supplying an operating fluid (F) to the catalyst inlet (), wherein the operating fluid guide section () is arranged outside the catalyst () at least in sections along the catalyst wall (). The invention also concerns a fuel cell system () with the starting burner () and a method for heating a service fluid (F) in the fuel cell system ().

Starting burner for a fuel cell system

The invention relates to a fuel cell system () having a fuel supply unit () and fuel cells () having a cathode (') and an anode (&#x2032;), wherein the cathode (&#x2032;) features a cathode feed line (), the anode (&#x2032;) features an anode feed line (), and the flow in the anode (&#x2032;) is connected with the flow in the fuel supply unit () via the anode feed line (), in which a reforming apparatus () is arranged, and having an anode exhaust line () provided with at least one burner apparatus (). According to the invention, a first heat exchanger () is provided in the cathode feed line (), and a second heat exchanger (), which is arranged upstream of the reforming apparatus (), is provided in the anode feed line (), wherein the anode exhaust line () divides downstream of the burner apparatus () into a first anode exhaust subsidiary line () and a second anode exhaust subsidiary line (), each of which is connected to an exhaust gas outlet (), and wherein the first anode exhaust subsidiary line () leads through a warm side of the first heat exchanger (), and the second anode exhaust subsidiary line () leads through a warm side of the second heat exchanger (), and the vaporizing arrangement () is able to be heated via the second anode exhaust subsidiary line ().

Fuel cell system

The present invention relates to a generator unit () having a housing (), a fuel cell device (), which is arranged in an interior space () of the housing (), a gas-carrying duct () having an upstream opening () and a downstream opening (), a valve (), which is provided, in particular set up, to connect the interior space () to the duct () at least at times in a gas-carrying manner, a driving device (), which moves gas within the duct () from the upstream opening () to the downstream opening (), and a sensor device (), which is arranged in a downstream direction of the duct () starting from the valve () and is designed to detect at least one parameter of the gas. The present invention also relates to a method for monitoring a generator unit.

Generator unit having a fuel cell device, vehicle having a generator unit of this type and method for monitoring a generator unit

The invention relates to an energy generation unit comprising a high-temperature fuel cell stack (), which is operated with liquid fuel, and a reformer () connected upstream of the fuel cell stack for processing the fuel, a recirculation line () for at least partially feeding back the anode exhaust gas into the reformer () and a device for feeding the liquid fuel into the anode exhaust gas. In accordance with the invention, the invention for feeding the fuel is in the form of an evaporator device (), comprising a housing () which has an evaporator nonwoven () in the region of the fuel feed line (), wherein the hot anode exhaust gas can be applied to said evaporator nonwoven from the recirculation line ().

Energy generating unit comprising a high-temperature fuel cell stack and a vaporizing unit

The invention relates to an energy generation apparatus (), in particular for use in a vehicle, which can be operated using hydrocarbons such as diesel and the like, which comprises a fuel cell () and is provided with connections () for introduction of air and the hydrocarbons and for the output of electric energy. According to the invention, the energy generation apparatus has three essentially physically separate functional units (), where the first functional unit () is configured as a supply device for media and has essentially devices for introduction of fuel and air, a second functional unit () is configured for reforming and has essentially devices for converting the hydrocarbons into process gas and a third functional unit () is configured for generation of electric energy and has essentially the fuel cell (), where the process gas produced in the second functional unit () is fed to the third functional unit ().

Hydrocarbon-operable fuel cell system

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Michael Reissig